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REMA4KS OF GEN, CASS,
IN THE SENATE, FE t RUML 11, MO.
Upon the receiptloa of a MemOrial preeenied by See-
tor Hale, from cithoue of I
Ma, asking a peaceable dirge
Mr. President, no man wit ) attends the discus-,
Diens in the Senate can fail t' perceive the predispo,
sition which prevails here to push principles to their
extremes.' if we do not find a massive wall.. where
they must stop, we follow th m indefinitely with as
Much metaphysiczeal as a y of the disciples of
the ancient school Of logic. The provision respec
tinge the right of pe ion is c ntained in one of the
amend iM articles oft cons itution, which provides
that. Congress shall pass no aw to prevent the peo
ple from assembling peacea.ly and petitiol i ing fur
redress of grievenceit,_ I do not deny that t e right
thus Secured is an ,important one, but Ido not rate
it fly any Means.ait high as the honortble senator
fro lm Ohio (Jr. Chase] appars to do. Thanks to
the wisdom of our forefather., and-to the spirit of
our institutions, the people .f this country have a
much more efficient remedy ban the right of peti
tion for any abuse of the go •ernment, tvhether ap
prehended or existing—the ight of action; the right
to send you home and me ho ne, and all of us home,
and to put other and better en in our places, that
their wishes may be accor. plished. The ggjeern
talent is theirs, and the hallo -box is a far better se
curity for its faithful administration than this hum
ble right of petition. In Egland, whence the mea
sure is derived, it is the bes means the people have
fora redress of grievances; and a poor one it is, too,
there, as the experience of very day demonstrates.
With a hereditary Executiv a hereditary House of
Lords, and a House of Conn one origintilly elected
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for the life of the sovereign, the right to petition is
about all that is loft to the people. Why sir, if we
were utterly to refuse to re eive petitions in this
country, it would produce n other effect than to
rouse public incliapation an 'to hurl us from our
places. No Letislatiire i this broad land will
ever place any impropq lim nation upon the exer
cise of this right. B t, sir, the raro limitations
whichontrol it necessarily arise out of the nature
of thin g s. You would not ,eceive a petition couch
ed in insolent, or obscene, or blasphemous language. .
Would you receive one: asking Congress to declare
that there was no God, and to pass a lr4w prohibiting
the people of the Unite States fiotn assembling for
the purposes of religious worali'pl Would you refer
such a petition, aa,the Senator from New York [Mr.
Seward] proposes to refer this, with grave instruc
lions to report the proofs of the 'existence of a God,
and 10 add titbit feeble evidence to the testimony up
on that subject, which is found equally in the Book
of Nature and ithe Book of Revelation, and which
is with us andar ound us, from the cradle to the
graver Thei, ir, if there are limitations to the duty
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olieceiving, if of to the right of presenting peti
tions, what are ey? They should be, th cent in
their language, I the action they ask fur should be
within the dphere of our constitutional power. This
principle the Senator front Massachusetts, [Mr.
Davis] in my Opinion, laid down the other- day with
equal truth and force. If I understood his vote, how
ever, it happened to him as to most of us too often
in life, hat this doctrine was better than his prac
tice. I think, on a test vote on that occasion, he
was among those in favor of the intr oduction of a
petitionasking what we could not grant. The con
stitutional object of the right of petition is declared
to be the redress of grievances. Instead of a valu
able right, an application to Congress to do what it
cannot do, reduce it to a farce, and is calculated i to
bring the right itself into contempt. If we have no
powers to grant the prayer of the petition, why
should such a petition be received? and our time thus
profitlessly spent might be devoted to useful and na
tional purposes. lam not speaking. sir, of a doubt
ful question— , of petitions for measures of doubtful
validity, and about which reasonable men may differ
and do differ. These should be respectfully receiv
ed and considered. But I speak of appliCations for
the exercise of powers which we have clearly and
undeniably n• 1 right to assume—like this for the dis
solution of the Union, or for the annihilation of a
State of this great confederacy.
' It has been said, sir—and it has been said in re
proach—that if we ought not to receive petitions
asking us to do an unconstitutional act, we ought
not to receive petitions , or remonstrances against
such an act.
I do not so understand our own duties or the
sights of the people. There is it great difference
between a proposition to do what we have no right
to do, and a remonstrance against doing it, when
there is reason to apprehend it may be dime. The
one asks us to violate our oaths and the constitution;
the other to recollect the obligations of both.
The petition asks us to ilisSolve) the Union. I
shall vote for rejecting it;' and if there were any
other mode by which our - indignation at such a
wicked and foolish proposition could be more pow
erfully expressed, I should adopt it with pleasure.
I had occasion some time since, and under much
less imposing circurrtstances than the present, to
say we ought to have one unpronounceable word, as
the Jews had of old, and that word "dissolution." I
repeat the sentiment—and withla stronger convic
tion, if possible, than ever of its truth and liner
lance. .
We talk as flippantly of breaking up this Union
Is wo.talk about dividing a township. The great
difficulty of our position is. sir, that we do not know
how well we are oft The sun never shone on so
prosperous a country as, this; and yet we reject al
most contemptuously the blessings of God, and seem.
utterly insensible to the favors he has 'showered :
upon us. Look over the pages of ancient history,
sir; look round the world as it is; and where will•
you find more freedom, more happiness, less oppres-'
sioo, less misery, than in this country? And yet
we seem from time to time ready to, reject all these ,
,elements of public and private prosperity, and to de
stroy this government, the world's ! best hope ana
our o*n. Instead of this eternal system of corn=
plaining, we should bow our knees in gratitude to
Him who gave us these blessings, and who h j some
times fear, will strike us with judicial blindness, to
He did His chosen people of old.
That we have difficulties sometimes to encouu:
ter Itlnt the eernmon lot of humanity, individual as
well as national; but. when these come, let, them
be adjusted in a Proper :spirit of compromise, tine
the future may bring us, that the fondest aspira-.
tion coo desire. , . ' •
This petition asks us to take Measures to dissolve
this Union peaceably. It professes to come from
the followers of William Penn, the great apostle of
peace: from a portion of the,moit respectahle So
ciety of Friends,' whose high mural qualities no man
appresiates,better thhn I do. But what kind of a
proposition ip,this? 'To dissolve this Union peace•
ably! I aid Ft with all proper deference to the peti•
lioness, but I say' it emphatically, that he tvlici ex
pects such a restilt is either already in an insane
hospital or ought to be placed there! He who be•
HMOS that such a government as this, with its tra
ditions, its institutions, its promises 'of the past, its'
performance of the preient, and its hopes of the le
ture;, living in the heart's core of almost every
American, can lie broken up without bloodshed, has
read human nattre and human history to little pur•
pose. NO siryt he Gordian knot that Ibinds us to
gether will never be severed but by the 'sword. To
talk, then, of dissolution, is to talk of war. Both
are inseparably connected, and the evil day which
brings the one Will bring, the other. And what
.hind of a war will at be? Such a war, sir, as this,
the world has neve'. seen. The nearer we hovel
been as friends, tie moredeadly will bo our feelings
as enemies, It will haveill•the elerrients of a civil ,
war--of an intestine war. Wherever the. border
may be; it will ba marked by blood and conflagra-,
lion from one end of it to the other. Far belt from'
moto weigh the injuries that each pOrtion might In
flict upon the other, and then strike the balance of''
evil with mathematical precision. It is enough for
me to know thati ruinous would be tlie hopesof both.'
And where is all this to end? If jealousies and fan-'
cied rival interests, or real greivances are to divide
us inte two Confederacies, where is hat divisen to
stop? • Similar causes will exist; thy are inseper-
ruble from human nature; and wo s tall finally be
reduced to State'sovereignties, andmay read our
fate in•the fate Of the Greek repu blics, so vividly
portrayed by the!ancieni7 historians.
Why, sir, It is but a year or tw o since, on the
occasion of a war with Mexico, thatla distinguished
Senator from Routh Carolina, (Mr. 'Cat.notrx,] still
unhappily detained from his place by sickness, de
pleted in glowing colors' the danger of victorious
generals returning from foreign conquest. I be.
lieved then. as I believe yet, that tie greatly 'enrol
led thedttoger,,M4 that tboic Ate !a preservative
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force in, this country which would laugh to scorn
the efforts of militarripower. Anti it was buts
day i or two since.,that , the other diitinguisfied Sena
tor froth South Carolina, [Mr. Bitrriam.l-pow in his
seat, pronounced a 'splendid eulogy upon General
Scott for the moderation he exhibited when he en
tered the capitol of Mexico. The Senator, if I re
collect 'right, thought he deserved somedistinguish
ed.mark of his country's approbation for remaining_
faithful to her interests and his own duties, and net
placing himself at the head of - a Mexican kingdom.
Few men, sir, have% warmer personal regard for
General Scott than I have, and perhaps stilt fewer
place a higher estimate upon his services than I do,
Ile has won a high station among the great cap
tains of the age, and he has also won imperishable
honor for himself and for his country. The cam
paign from Vera Cruz to Mexico is among the
aroudeat feats on military record. But, Sir, with nil
this, I have no thanks to render him for the moder
ation to which the Senator from South Carolina al
ludes. Ido not 'believe that the thought of such
treachery everentemd his I mind;l nor do I believe
that, if he had made the attempt, there was one
American in the army who would have deserted - the
standard aids country to follow the standard of a
disloyal soldier. The stars and Stripes would have
still been tho pillar of tire by day, and s cloud by"
night, to conduct our gallant countrymen to that
home, whose associations neither-time nor distance
could weaken or sever. All honor, then,_ to Gener
al Scott, and to the army, fur what they did and suf
fered; but there let us stop. I trust it ;will be long
before we find a Rubicon in our country.
But, sir, what Will' gentlemen say who anticipate
such danger from military' power to the danger to
be, apprehended to great sections of our country,
when these aro arrayed against each other in au ar
mor and an attitude it is easy to foresee but impos
sible to prevent? The border would bristle with
bayonets. Every commanding. height would be
crowned with its fortress. Standing armies would
become' a pan-of the permanent organization 'of
each. And the probability is, judging from the les
sons of history, that we shall be bronghtl, together
again by some powerful leafier, an.' find ourselves
in a consolidated instead of a confederated country,
under the iron rule' of a military despot- God save
me from wi t nessi og. that day!
• ammo and Pennsylva
ntion dale Union.
That California is democratic, the fact that demo:
cratic senators and epresentatives,from that state
are now in this city a ff ords ample proof. ' Nay, we
,
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are intormed.that G n. Taylor has not oven a respec
table party in California, the whole administration
being looked upon by the people of that Territory
with distrust, to use no stronger term expressive of
the• hearty aversion they feel fur it, We have tem
informed that a meat esperate'elrort is to be made
to reverse the pres nt order of things in that flour
ishing,
embryo et e. We understand that-a whig
meat
paper is to be established at San Francisco, which is
to be supported by all the means and influence of the
aiminist ation, and all the cid which it can raise
from th whig party in the Atlantic Stutes. We
s under and the project has been long in contempla
tion, and is now approaching a practical experiment.
We learn that General Taylor and the brads of de
partments have all subscribed sums ofmoney to pro
mote tbe.success oT the scheme, • and all the public
offices have been required to Subscribe for the paper.
%ye upderstand that a subscription book for the pro
posed paper has been in circulation among the feder
al merchants of- Boston, proposing to commence the"
paper when 3,000 subscribers, at 810 each, shall have
been obtained; that the subscription is headed by
General Taylor and his cabinet, with $3OO eacb,Cx
cept Mr. Clayton, who subscribes $300; that a
distinguished federal nierchant of Boston guaranties
for one year it4alary of $3,000 to the assitan I editor
who is also ttiJiavo a free ticket through to San
Francisco, and a:suitatie room in that city for an
office, free of rent; and that A. M. Crane, of Rich
mond, Virginia, has been designated as the urinc:l
- editor and an individual by the name of F. W.
Rice as assistant.
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ATTEMPT TO CONVERT CAIFORNIA TO
FEDERALISM.
Such is the grand scheme, and such are the means
by which California is to be converted-to Federal
ism and to the support of the administration. The
hardy democratic pioneers, who have conquered that
country and brought it under the jurisdiction of the
Union, will laugh at the scheme when it comes to
their knowledge. And it will be about as successful
as the effort of the administration to convert Min
nesota to feckranam. We doubt if there is a State
or Teritory in the Utlton, or
,under its jerisdiction,
except lihndelsland, in which the present adminis
tration can command a Majority of the voters. Our
annals produce no instance in which an administra
tion has been so throughly prostrate - in the first year
of its existence as that which is nominally headed
by General Tay lor.--IVorth. Union.,
Await. Cer.eetrrt•.--One of the most melancholy
and heart rending accidents ocurred at the Summit
on Thursday morning last, that we have ever been
called upon to record. The dwelling housed Mr. Ig
natius Adams was totally destroyed by the explosion
of twelve kegs of powder, which he had stored in
one of the rooms, by which his wife was Instantly
killed, and Demetrius A. Lucket, Miss Martha
Locket, Miss —Mahon, a German named Hoover,
and a child of Mr. Adams, was burned and mangled
in a most shocking manner. Mr. Adams, although
present, was but 'slightly injured. Demetrius A.
Locket and the German have both since died. There
are slight hopes of the two young ladies and the
child surviving,
The explosion occurred about six o'clock in the
morning. The powder was ignited by the German,
Hoover. who went into the room where it was de
posited for the purpose of procuring souie of it with
which to blast stone coal. In extinguishing the
candle which he carried in his hand, it is supposed
that he blew a •spark into the powder. As it may be
supposed, by the explosion of so ?Atte a•quantity of
powder; the house was a total ruitr, and it is said
hose who witnessed it, that the scene presented
was one of the most heart rending description. It
was with considerable difficulty that the sufferers
wers extricated from the mass of ruins.
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The wife of Mr. Adams, Dertiettius A, and Miss
Martha Locket were ell the children of John Locket,
Esq., of Washington township, who has the sympa
thies and sincere condolence of.his numerous friends
in this his severe affliction. The sufferers were all
respectable members of society, and in the prime of
life, and this sad occurrence which has befallen
them has can's deep gloom over the whole commu
nity.
Mrs. Adams was buried on F►iday last. and her
funeral was attended by a very large concourse of
people.—Ebensburg Sentinel, February 14,
SHOCKING AFFAM ;LTA WEDDING.-A most shock
ing affair occurred at Philadelphia on Monday
morning, at the boarding-house of a Mrs. Murphy,
in Grey's alley, near Second erect. There had been,
during the evening, a wedding, in which all the
parties participating were Irish. As usual much
joy and mirth prevailed, which continued until four
o'clock in the morning, when the parties began to
seperate. 4.young lady, Miss Bridget Lynch, act
ing as bridernaid, accompanied the bride up stairs,
and while in her chamber, was in the act of reach
ing for something, holding in the other band a fluid
lamp, when, shocking to rstlate, the lamp exploded,
and enveloped her entire, dress in one sheet of flame.
In this dreadful plight, screankhig loudly, the un
fortunate young woman rushed down stairs, when
every effort was made to relieve her from so perilous
a situation. We regret to add. that she was burnt
•in such a shocking manner about the face, breast,
and indeed the whole body, that her life is despaired
of. ISlte was conveyed to the hospital. The ac
cident was occasioned in consequence of the screw
of the lamp not being sufficiently tight, the fluid
coming uut and igniting with the blaze.—lnquirer.
PACIFIC RAIL RpsD.—The Legislature of ifissou
ri at its last session poised an act to incorporate the
Pacific Rail Road, the route of which is just defined,
from "the city ofst. Louis to the city of Jefferson,
and thence to some point on the western line of Van
Buren (now Cass) county, in this State, with a reiw
that the same be continued hereafter, westwardly, to
the Pacific Ocean." 'The charter is perpetual, and
liberaljutits'prorisions, iesting the power in twenty ! .
nine corporator's, nine of crbom'shall be a quorum,
and it is said among those persona appciintetkarethe
representatives of a large portion of the property of
the State. At the first meeting nearly.. a sufficient
'amount of stock stance to secure the charter ($200,-
000) was subscribed for. Theism absolutely sub.
scribed was $154,0011, and a disposition was express
ed to double the amount. This looks really likelo
in; to work. - ' •
HORRIBLE MURDERaN LAWRENCE.
Boeterv, Feb. 11.
The body of a young girl aimed Caroline Adinis,
was found in the rivet at Lawietice,..sewed up, in a
GSA. She formerly resided SitaWmut street, in
thli city, and'always sustained a high character for
virthe and morality-4eport to the contrary notwith
standing. Iler mother left the city to-day to per
form the last sad office fur the mutilated remains of
her daughter.
- Miss Adams resided in Lowell previous to going
to Lawrence. At the former place she made the ac
quaintance of a li very-stable keeper, to whom it was
understood she was engaged to be married. She
disappeared some ten days since, and on application
to her lover, her friehde were informed that she bad
probably gone to visit some relatives, - but Ino
tidings were had of her until her body was found in
the river at- Lawrence. tier throat bad been cut
almost from ear to ear and a hatikerchiertied over
her mouth. 'rho body was in a perfect state of pre
servation.
The fact of her being enciente, leads to the con
clusion that she has been foully Murdered to hide
another crime. The deceased was a beatify l young
girl, greatly esteemed by those who were etc unlisted
with her.
BOSTON, Feb. 13.
The Herald says that on , Monday a coroner's jury
was summoned and a postmortem examination held
om Miss Adams. The examination, by several re
spectable physicians of the place, resulted in finding
that no attempt had been made to perform a crimin
al operation. Marks of violence were found upon
her head: which showed that she had been struck
on the bead with a heavy weapon. •
' It appeared in evidence that the deceased became
acquainted with a young man, Darius Taylor, a
stable keeper in Lawrence, about two years since.
The acquaintance grow into intimacy,,and the girl
moved to Lawrence and 'worked for sane time at the
cotton mills at that place. The parties came to this
City and stopped fur some time here with a sister,
who was married, and returned to Lawrence on Wed:
nesday, the 28th of November. Her delicate situ
lotion did not admit of her working in the mills, and
She went to visit en aunt of Mr. Taylor's, who is
represented as bearing a doubtful reputation.
Here she remained till the evening of the 21st of
December, 1849, when' she left the house to take die
8 o'clock train to Lowell, and was not seen or heard
of until the time when her remains were found en
closed in a suck, - with a towel and some cotton wool
bound round her mouth. Her lover, to whom she
was engaged to be married, came to this city about
four weeks ago, and told her friends here of hgr ab
scence.
Toey mere greatly surprised to hear it, as they
had frequently writterr to her and received no answer.
When asked why he had not been more concerned
about ber, he answered that lie .supposed she was
playing a trick upon hint and had sliped
It i also said :hat he was questioned to the some effect
three or four days after she was missing, and mani
fested no surprise or concern. '
In the trunk of the deceased*, letters to and from
her lover were found, in which the facts of her situ
ation were avowed and freely spoken about; Those
letters were taken up to Lawrence by the officers
who came fur them yesterday, and were read by the
coroner's jury. The verdict of the jury we have not
yet learned. Suspicion in Lawrence rests upon
Darius Taylor. In this city there is some talk that
a resident of Boston is the guilty party.
diBUFFALO SLSTATR Lim; BAILROALL-011 Weaned
ly last Mr. WALLACH, the engineer, with a compe
'tent number of men, commenced staking out the line
of this road which has been adopted by the company
to commence work upon; and it is expected that the
portion of it between Buffalo and Cattorangtis'Creek
at least will be put under contract in tr few days;
and if a sufficient amount °latent( is taken to war
rant it, the whole distance to the State Lino will be
put under contract at the same time, or at least to
Fredonia, and,in the latter case, the remainder as
soon as practicable. To insure its being put un
der contract to Fredonia, it will require the taking
of only a few thousand dollars more stock than has
already been taken and we hope our citizens will not
foil of having the requisite amount token up at once,
and thus secure to them beyond a contingency the
benefits of this important enter Prise. The rumors
that have been in circuldtion connected with the lo
cation of this road and the interests of Fredonia we
are authorized 1U state, are totally groundless; the
only •question as to our enjoying the benefits of the
enterprise rela ting wholly to time, and this at our
own'disposal. The citizens of Buffalo arc now fully
awake to the importance to them of the s;.eedy l com-,,
pfetion of this road, awl our latest information
,from
that quarter assores us that all that is requisite for
the immediate prosecution of the work is being ef
fected.—Fecdonirs Censor.
a•ofTlt CAAOLINA AND Uxiox.---The following
paragraph from the Fayettville Observer of the sth
inst., shoWs that the foolish speeches of Mr. Cling
man (whig) do not find favor in that /State:
"We take this occlsion to say,' very emphatically,
that wo have no faith in, nor, sympathy with, Mr.
Clinginan's veiws of the immense prosperity which•
is to result to the Union from disunion. On the
contrary, tee should regard it, if effected, (which'
God forbid!)' as the parent of wees.unnumbered and
innumerable. A hundredfold increase of the annoy
ances from the fanatics would lead to wars, and in
stead of a prosperous commerce, we should have
our trade crippled, and a national debt incurred to
support the expenses of our army. Instead of the
power which, as a united nation, is now felt and re
spected over the wide world, we should have two or
more weak and feeble netiens, which 'would find it
quite us much as they could do to keep each other in
check; without any surplus force to awe '.the ether
nations of the world. NO,,let us not talk of disu
nion as lung as there is a hope of avoiding intolera
ble oppression; and especially let us not delude the
Southern people into a belief that•it will be a mon
ey-making measure."
RitvAccuvATtom.—Wetalkthe fo:Liwing informa
tion, which may prove useful to nil classes of our
fellow-citizene,from the Home Journal:
First, every individual is susceptable of vaccina
tion; second, revaccination in not necessary before
puberty; third, the system undergoes.a charge at
puberty, and revaccination is then necessary; fourth,
vaccination is a suro pieventive - of small-pox; fifth,
revaccination is a sure preventative of varioluid;
sixth, the third vaccination is inert; seventh, the sys
tem is suiceptible oT varioluid after puberty, when
ever the individual is exposed to small-pox without
revaccinatitnv; eight, - revaccination is not
if the first operation was performed since puberty;
ninth, those who disregarded vaccination are always
liable to small.-pox whenever exposed to the influen
ce of that dreadful . disease; tenth, if everrindividn
al were vaccinated before puberty, and revaccinated
at thrit revolution cif the system, there would be no
such disease existing as the small-pox. '
• MAKIN° MoNwr tr 4 CaLtroarom.—Weeee it stated
in a letter from San Francisco, that while the con
flagration was raging in that city, some of thempec
tators refused to.band buckets of water ' or to remove
geode, unless they were compensated. The only
fire engine in the place, too, was securely locked up
and waa not permitted to be.hrought into use until
a written promise of remumeration was obtained.—
According Ao •our customs on this side of the con
tinent, these are novel, and not the most credible,
ways of making money. There is some excuse, how
ever, for the owners of the engine, in the presump
tion that,:like almost everything else in San Francis
co, it was eent there on speculation.
JUST SO.—The Herald's Washington correspon
dent has accomplished what neither Gen. TsrLon
or hie friends have yet been able to do—lefino the
General's poiitionl It is thus.— •=s• •
Everybody believes there is to he a compromise,
but notis living soul can tell whet it is to be. Mr.
Clay's compromise won't do;:it was condemned on
the spot. The plan of old Zack won't do, it is the
do nothing plan, and something must be done. Old
Zack has done the best he could, and that is to do
ootbing; because, if he does anything, he is a "used
up man,' North or_Bouth. _lf he takes either end of
the see-saw, he goes down: therfore, that he to, say,
he prefers to sit in the middle,'andlet the concern
work itself. •
07" TIM POLITICIANS are looking with some
anxiety for the appearance of a work in font; volumes,
from the pen of Louis Phiilippe. It is to be entitled,
"Eighteen years of Royalty,' snd will doubtless
contain many new views of peranns,who have 4 ff or.
ed' prominently on tae political stage lithe last geu-
Crie W,eektti (blisertin,
ERIE. P A.'
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23. 1950.
Wo - aro indebted to Mr. Sonator Douglass, and
Messrs Walker and Reid, for Congressional and Leg's
lativo favors. •
.•
o:r home iN3TITUTI.At an election held on Saturday
eveninglast, the following gontldmen were chosen officals
for the.enssing term: President—lsaao Moorhead. Vico
Ptesldent-0. 11. Irish. Treasurer—L.- Warren. Secre
tory—A. H. Caughey, Librarian—J. B. Gunnison, Ast.
Librariani—Geo. C. Bennett. and R. N. Bin g.
"Tye Two I.pit,."— i This th o comprehensive,
and very appropriare title of la new quarto of sixteen pa
ges, devoted to American and European Literature,
News, &c.; the three first numbers of which are on our
table. It Is published weekly. at $2 per year. by L.
Lockwood & Co. Now York. and Edited by Jour. J.
DAILZY and Wlti.tais Ross Wsr.t.sce. Esq., buff' gen
tlemen of decided ability and taste.
GGREATI mos k Erma Is Imam: PUIA. 1
—Tho Penn
sylvanian of Friday contains a call fu 'a
meeting of the
Democratic citizens of the city and c linty of philadel
phia, "who sustained - the Democratic platform in the last
ciimpaign for the Presidency, and who are now opposod
to tho fanatical efforts of the Free Soil and Abolition ngi
tutors, to sever the Union," to take pine! on - the 22d of
February (yesterday) at the Chinese Museum. Tho call
is signed by some 40P we notice
many of the prothir : party.
A NOOLE MOTTO sun having
taken the necessary measures to' forward a block of In
diana marble to Washington, to he placed in the Nation
al Monument, Governor WRIT'? 11E4 requested that
the following patriotic sentiment bo engraved upon it:—
"Indiana knows no North. no South; NOTHING CUT TOE
UN/0:1!" That is a noldo sentiment, worthy to come
from a democratic Governor. It is at this limo the
watchword of the Democracy—••••NOTl/1:10 BUT' TUE Us.
test"
Duustostsys litmoucn.—The man or mon who seri
ously talk of the Dissolution of the Union, we believe must
be either insane, and therefore more fit fora mad-house
than any other place, or traitors' who deserve the direst
execrations of every true friend of humanity. In either
case, then the Sanate l certainly did right in refusing to
receive the petition which was recently presented in that
body by Mr. - Hale, from certain citizens of this State,
praying for the peaceable . dissolution of the Cilium, and
upon which Gen. Cass delivered the short, but compre
hensive and patriotic speech wo publish in another col
umn. We are pleased to silo this hydra-headed monster,
Disunion, receive so emphatic a rebuke, from such a
high quarter. ThOqu s estion was on 'the simple reception
of the petition, and it received but three votes, viz:
Messrs. Chase, Dale and Seward; while rivry Senators
voted against it. At a period like tho present, every in
dication of a better state of feeling—of a deep, firm and
abiding attachment to the Union-4-er a growing spirit of
conciliation and concession—of l a disposition to rebuke
fanaticistri, and treason to the Uttion and tho beet hopes
of humanity—is hailed with joy by the great mans of the
people, in whose breast heats, high above all other cher
ished hopes, a strong and lasting attachment to the
Constitution as it is. A prayer like the one under
consideration could come only from the 'nest desperate
characters or from perfect macnen—asking, as it did.
whatithe Senate had no power to grant, and which if it
had, would be the granting of civil war, with its train
of attendant,ovils and horrors. Still it came to a body of
tnen, a verylarge proportion of whom believe in the most
unlimited right of petition; end the manner in which it
was received, and tho vote upon it, show how every oth
er consideration was disregarded in their desire to mete
out a scathing and withering rebuke to the spirit which
could dictate such a prayer.
WEBB'S REUCTION..-WO announced 'esti week ilia ro
jection by the Senate,n(Jas. Watson Webb. as Minister
to Austria, but there is ono feature in the affair to which
wo wish to call attention. It is paid only seven Whig
Senators voted for his confirmation, viz; Messrs. Bell,
Berrien, Dawson, Mangum. Sprurance, Seward end
Wales; some dodged the vote, while others came up
to tho work boldly, and voted against him.. Among the
latte'r„ was Mr. Clay, who, it is said, not only voted but
spoke against him. Mr. Clay's whole course, since ho
has been in Washington, has indicated that between him
and rho Administrations, there was an "impassible gulf,"
which neither favors bestowed upon his family or friends
can narrow. The Washington correspondentof the Phil
adelphia Ledger.—an able and cautiously discriminative
writer says, "the Administration now look upon him
as one of their inost dangerous enemies. Ile has de
nounced their •'lot alone" policy, and is in their opinion
a competitor for the Presidency in 1852, or is ready to
support Scott for that office. You will presently. see all
the real and pretended friends of Gen. Taylor worrying
the great Kentuckian, as certain animals worry a lion;
but if some of these do not get hurt in the contest, I am
mistaken."
DEMOCRATIC 1!tOMIN AT lONA IN CONNECTICUT.—TIIO
democratic state convention assembled at Middletown
on Wednesday and nominated Col. SEYMOUR for Gov
ernor; CdattLEs H. POND for Lieutenant Governor;
HIRAM WEED for Secretary; HEsne Surrn for Trea
surer, and Mures G. PINNEY for Comptroller. The ammo
ticket (says the Springfield Post) was in the field last
year, and made a fine run. In convention, Col. Seg.mour
had 162 out of 200 votes. A &v etch to the Hartford
Times says "a grand feeling is aroused. The voice for
Seymour 14 strong, and the story from all quarters is that
he will be elected."
CANADIAN Astasflos.—Earl GREY'S letter •to Lord
ELGIN, the Governor General of the Canadas, denoun
cing annoration and annexationists, regarding the one
as but little better than treason. and the others as but
little bolter than traitors, has, not produced any mollify
ing effect, but, on iho.contrary, has greatly exasperated
the dispatents, and added much fuel to the flame. Ac
cordingly, the annexatiottists, instead of desisting from
their purpose and returning•to their allegiance and their
loyalty. avow their determination to "go ahead" with
their projects of dismemberment, "in spite of -thunder."
as they say. But they say. at the same - limo, that what
they do will be done lawfully -and peaceably, but that
they disregard the Downing street mensoes, and appeal
from the two earls. Grey and Elgin, to the English peo
ple. who Will perceive in the long run, they think. the
propriety and the policy of a separation. ,
• It is reported that there is a man residing in a respect.
able neighborhood..(for the credit of the district we with.
taild the name) who has never token a newspaper.—Ex.
Paper.
There is a man in this city who has taken the Ledger
the last seven years—from his next door neighbor.--. Phil.
Ledger.
That chap has got lots of cousins, and other blood re
lations. iii this section. Many of the readers of the Ob
server are not subscribers. They are too poor, too stin
gy, or too bigoted! The latter class is much the largest.
.11D". N ehave heretofore neglected 'to notice that our
old friend. H. J. WALTERS. of the Lewistown Trse Dem
ocrat. has associated with himself in the publication of
that paper. hlcCsv. Esq., a young gentlemen of
tact and ability. The paper. also. is much improved in
tylmgraphical appearance. and gives evidence that the
Democracy of that county duly appreciate'the industry
dud talents of its Editors.
LIT The Gazette does not like the rejection of ugancr.
ar Webb. It thinks Mr. Clay and tho other whips who
voted in the negative, acted very badly. "Straws show,"
as we I'm before remarked.
A POQR farain—We hate to acknowledge it, but truth
compels as to eaty that Pennsylvania is tho poorest State
in the Uniss—ells is too , poor 'to Pay for publishing her
laws in the newsman, and thereby informing the peo
ple of tba doi.rtis of their servantio - - - •
CRAWFORD COUNTY. The united Democracy
.at Crawford held a glorious meeting at the Court House
in Meadville. on Monday evening of last week. Thtt
sterling Deinocrat. WILMOT B4TTLM,as in' the chair.
assisted by a auttiiblo number Of Vic ls Presidents and
Secretaries. Wo notice with inure that M. Loyv7
riv, Esq., who was mainly ,Instr mental in defeating the
regular morn imitions of our party?n that county last year.
took an activo part in the deliberations. being Chairman
or tho committeo on rosolutions4and reporting the same
to the meeting. From hue we infer that, Mr. L's. course
last fall was forced upon him by combination of circum
stances. useless now to partidularizo. and not from a
hostility to the principles he hu ff s so long and so ably
pheld.
I The following are the resolutiOns adopted by the meet
ing, all of which—with one exception. vies that is rels-,
- lion to the Proviso—wo can heartily subscribe to.
Rooked, That political equality, opposition to mono•
polies and special privileges, are! recognized as cardinal
principles of Democracy. and the application of these
principles to every section of the Union. will secure to
man hie natural rights and driYO the great moral and po
litical sin of slavery, from the laud.
Resoled'', That it is thee dutyAt the general govern
ment to rid itself at once end forever from all connection
with a traffic so repugnant to christiunity. by abolishing
'lovely in all territory within their exclusive control, and
the highest considerations of Anti+ and patriotism require
of Congrees to prohibit the extension of Slivery over ter
ritory that is free.
Resolved, That wo am in raver of a Homestead Es=
emptott law. and the law passed at the last session of the
Legislature exempting three hundred dollars woi th of pro
perly from sale on execution, should nutlbe repealed until it
gives place to ono still more liberal in its character.
Re.lofred, That we are in favor of the amendment
Constitution,*as passed, at the lest session of the Leg
'statute, which if adopted by the present, will enable the
people to elect their own Judges . ; The election of all of
ficers, both state and National, by r the qualified electors is
strictly demeeraticAnd we will contribute our mite 'to
procuretho necessary amendmeitt the State and National
constitutions, by the election of men to office who will
advocate and vote for this principle.
Re-wired. That the public !adds belong to the people,
and that they should he bestowed itt limited quantities on
actual settlers who ate liontelesi.
Resolved, That it is tho true policy of this government
to make such judicious appropriations for the' improve
ment of rivers and harbors, as our foreign and domestic
commerce demands, provided j! always that they are
not local in their benefits, anti, not legitimate subjects
of State and individual enterprise.
Resolved. That the franking - 'Privilege is a monoply
Odious to republicatioits, and. ite , abolishment is loudly
demanded; and that cheap postage is a reform which the
spirit of the ago requires. [1
Resolved, That the Dimweratic party. of Crawford
county ash at the hands of their Senator and Represen
tatives and honest apportionment bill; that we aro oppos
ed to any system of Gerrymandering the State by the con
nection of counties of taferent interests for political pur
poses; that wOwltkr two Representatives in the Legis
lature from this Mttikty, and that We think the large frac
tion ent.tles us Mtheim and that,we are decidedly oppos
to a connection With any ether county for the election of
members to Legislature. i
Resulted. That u dor our preitent system of taxation
the Agricultural int tests of Pennsylvania pay more than
their equitable proportion of the ipublic burthen; that we
are 'ti Inver of taxing all property and valuables equally.
anything short of th a does manifest injustice to the til
lers of the soil. i . '
1
The meeting als appointed Win. Porter and Joseph
Patton, Esq., deluge es to the State Convention at Will
iamsport on the 29(1 of May next, and abolished the
present mode of m king tenni; nominations. and sub
stituted the D'elegat , system. 'i
THE GAM: ur Mcissneur.:—The Pennsylvanian very
pointedly says, Great Britain understvds the weak part
of thjs Union. Sliehas been diiecting her -energies to
it fur many years. ho has made a hypocritical opinion
against slavery in E repo, in order so to use it upon our
Northern States that the South map 'secede, and thus
secure to E.igland a Commercial superiority of free trade
g.
with the slave States Hence it is that the most violent
agitators against the outh and the Union, are English
men; hence it.is tha London petite out annually mil
lions of pamphlets a i fiinst slavet hence it. is that her
press groans with any-slavery ar icles. Wo cannot deny
that she has made grrat head wa r y in her favorite Cl 11.
60(16 upon tiliSael/UYIC. . She Would not only secore
the exclusive council ef the Souther') trade, if disunion
took place, but succeed in breaking up that Refuge and
Asylum for the opprssed which ) has been the hope for
the struggling millionts Whose revolutionary efforts have
so Often caused monarchy to tiemb!u.
In ono sense., England is therefor° tho rival of the
Northern States. Sl'e now sees'iliat the latter are grow.
ing rich upon the Sot them trod°; while sho is utterly
deperntent upOn Sow torn cottony Disunion would sop.
orate, the North and tire South; Ond England would no
longer fear the rivalrl of the former. "A child may seo
it." The lion's skin s too short,l and so she ekes it out
with the'fox's. .
England has then Two vast stakes in this terrible
game. Disunion would destray the bright beacon to
which tile masses of the old world turn their eyes when
seeking for encouragement against oppression; thus pro
longing their servitu/e by the perpetuation of her own
powers. Disunion would therefoko_remove a rival out of
her path, in the Nort ern Slates,' and an obstacle to her
ambition in the taxes which aro laid upon her produc
tions, thus making h‘r the ally mid die champion of the
South's.
'We repeat—the inn
two vast interests in th
In band of 11!Jnarchy is playing for
be garno of Disunion.
• Li- The Fredonia Censor is pretty sharp, but not quite
sharp enough. Erie harbor has neither dredge nor scow
"at work in it," and as to steamers stopping at the outer
pier, we beg leave to say they are never guilty of such a
thing until they have run long enough in the spring to
get pretty deeply in debt for coal, wheni of course, the
water becomes so low-that they can't come in sal.' more.
Again, their New York creditors, unable to collect debts
under their own laws; sometimes': send them here—in
which rase, it is no sooner ascertained that the SheriiF
has a writ in his pocket, than the water in our harbor
becomes very shallow, and forthwith they are. missing.—
Our cotemporary will 'see from this, therefore, that even
should his suggestion "to procure 'some atilt° Missiesip-,
pi low water stoamhdits, whose draft is so light that they
will run where it is "ei, Mae moisi" ' be adopted, they
would have to be put under ether .than New York
_man
agement to run any where but away from their dehts.;--
As to the -Censor's "hit" at the "Erie Sank," and the
"United States Bank," why, wo jut decline any-iuter
forancethey are both eminently I"whig," and as the
Censor is also "whig," we are disposed to let the,"slain
bury the slain."
MiILGLART.—The Gun-Smith 'Shop of Ivlmre. G. A,
Bmix.rr & Co., of this city, was intorored on 'Wednes
day night. through a back window', and goods to a con
siderable amount—sloo to 's2oo4—stolen, consisting of
Rifles, Revolvers, Shot-guns, Pisklls, Powder and Flasks,
&c. Among tho articles stolen was that bealitiful'Rifle
exhibited at•the Fare in this city list fall. Twenty-five
dollars reward is offered for the re4ovety of the properly.
113 The Gault. has not yet held up to public indigna
tion the "thirty-three" northern whigv—••dough-faces'i
—who voted with the asuth to lay Hoot's resolution. Wit
mot potion and all. upon tho table Hsu a "great change
boon going on in the publio rnind,7 tijet oui cotemporn
ry. ance,so ready to denounce northern Members for the
tenet symptom of subserviency to the South. is so silent
wow? We peuse for n reply!
FARMERS Loon AT Tnts.—The Nashville Union says
tabular statements of the trade with Europe show that
the olports of Farm Produce hive been 350 per cent.
greater under the tariff of 18.16 1 then in corresponding
years under tho tearer 142. And yet Geo, Taylor and
his whig Cabinet would have Congress restore the op
pressive 6!protective" lora whic4 makes the farmer pay,
from 10 to 30 per cent, mom for all he buys from stores.
and prohibits, the sale or two-third4of his produce. What
a beautiful system of moneyed au/ manufacturing rno-'
nopoly our whic administradork, would build, up. if
they had powers
D The Hon. Edward A: Hann gas. our late Witte.
ter to Waal. arrived in the steamer Europa. aad is at
present a peat•of Gen. Plitt,. of Philadelphia. The
Pennsylvanian states that he is in flue health and spirits.
,
, ✓ ALL SORTS OF PARAGR • PIIS.
Er There is an editor out west who has • have hi,
boots tapped weekly—he wears them out so eat in
log the loateri out of his office,
. -
a The Hartford Courant says that "Ge .eral Tw o ,
possesses uncommon simplicity of character." The Tia4Bl
hinks there is no room for dispute, on that int.
MY In Belgian) every acre of grotildsovorts th ree
sons. What a population the United States Quid a wl,.
tai) at that rate—not lesethen 7,500,000.1 t souls.
OCT A Berton medical writer says that it prolincee eta,
Weans, chapped skin, learned eyes, and cords, t o "
the fire suddenly when, ire are very col. I Arol to '
st
yourself to tti warmth by degrees. -
ICY The Virginia resokutions adopted on the 4th int
do
no t treat the convention at Nasliville, in June nezt, 88 1 ,
body anthorized to act for the wbote south, b tu i
sention which can only consult and advise.
- -
Er MATTI OP Bast.-.-A Inter advice from T
the sudden death of Bern, the Hungarian
has for many years assigned the year 1850
of his existence.
Q 3 The Mirror atatea that a largo chest of p
by order of Col. Webb, and packed in a
manlier, was despatched to him from No l
wook.
11:7 The total amount of California gold re
mint up to,the let Inst. Is $6,500,000. and
the three list steamers $1.500,000, making
$8.000.00. ,
11;)" Senator lloorros says that if this Union
dissolved, he wants the ruins of the Republi
monument of his gravel It is such patrio
that will save it.
07' The Van Buren (Ark.) Intelligencer. no'
rival of a flat boat load of cotton at that plac
Creek country-. The cotton was raisedpyili
dians; many of whom are said to be induatrii
X? Tams are• three kinds of poor people,
Y. Evening-Mirror—the Lord's poor the
and the poor devils. The first are tinforiuti•
and vicious; and the third, perhaps, a little o,
117. About seven hundred French' Canadian
Troy, Lansingburg and Cohoes, have add
countrymen in Canada on the subject of ann i
them to obtain it by all peaceful means.
TT The Washington Gldbe has been positive
one or the Mormon delegate, that the charge
and bigamy, l brought against the citizens of
utterly unfounded.
QT As the pearl which is the object of unite
lion is produced by the disease of the oyster,
of the most illustrious actions originate in
'disease—au overweening ambition.
(Er thurowrosavThe Boston Post says a
by accident, applied cod liver oil to fiiti chin
bear's grease. and his face was soon covered
where tho beautiful moustache was desired.
Er The Cincinnati Herald has published
"Love," in the course'of whichalt argues tha
increase or dirninieh, according to the rise
wheat, and it glace etatietice in proof.
CET A ISluiit.vv.—The Boiton Courier says
Cod was served up at a hotel in Cincinnati
and made a most comfortable and delicious
Few of the Cincinnatians ever saw such a la
'Er Gen. Walker, the now governor of Lonisl
` - the following sentence in reference to the di
legislature to educate the children of the state
VIEW. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSION T•
FuLm.".
ICS Eliza Williamson. aged 32 years, commit
in Philadelphia by taking arsenic. Shi had
band in Albany. on account ci illtreatment. an
en to suicide in consequence of being des'
married man with whom she had been livingl
TY According to the new N. Y. Tfibuno wri
positively stated in . cartain quarters that Mr
Ingersoll, of Peuttay!vane, has been decided u.
ister to Prtissia. Also, that a foreign appoin ,
be tn.dered to Mr. T. Butler King."
ID' Our yankoe *ndists are tickled to deal.
idea of a trader iti London advertising biniie
sage maker to Queen Victors." Now, that
easily digested fact, and nothing to be compar,
northv L.n len tradesman, who advertised
"Wooden Leg Maker to Her Majesty!" -
[Er Those who dined at.thei American hotel
land on Sunday were poisonbd by preparsd•ho
wh:ch the landlord bought from a countrym i l
supposed some poisonous vegetable was at
mixed With the horse radish. After two or t6 l
sickness, the'''boarders" were partially rester(
azr Mr. Burke, iu his last report from the
fice„ estimates fifty eggs for the consnmptio
individual in the United States, and that en
worth half a cent. This will make' eleven hni
lions of eggs consumed, and five and a half
dollars paid Out for them.
tLT Famuirot.,Dxsxu.—Ellon Bright, a you
17 years, attached to Wombwell's menagerie,'
the Lion Queen, was recently torn to pieces
into whoso cage she had been accustomed to en
purpose .of exhibiting her daring and intrepi.
accident occured at Chatham, England.
111 A Yankee is never Upset by the estonis
walks upon tho Alps with his hands in his pe
tho smoke of his cigar is seen among the mis
gars. Otto of this class sauntered into the o
lightning telegraph. and asked how long it we.
transmits message to Washington. "Ten.
was the reply. "I can't wait," was the nsjoi,
OJ A singular and awful death happened at
Indiana, wive an abandoned woman, known
who had beenlivhig in a hollow tree on the rive
north of the town, was found frozen to death in
TOW tenement on' tho morning of Feb. 4. A warriisg
to all wicked femmes either to cense to do evil, or slab to
reside in warmer [ houses in cold weather.
ICY Onto, Lecasarear..-The law dividing:emit
county has been ,repealed. It wa s an entre oos
.and was passed by the whip for the purpose' oi l p
one whig Senator and two whig Representatives f
a county invariable . derpicrat. All the disorganieatio.
the Ohio legislature gred, out of the law.
Err AItIIZST OF J. H. GREEN.—Oarleer . Smith,
York, procee ed to Albany last week, and arrest d J.
Green. the _Re ormed Gambler, on a charge preforre.
8. W. Spauldi of New York, for obtaining dr? , go l .
and money to th amount of $458 in 1848. Some
bills were found upon Green at the time of his arres
tie was committed by Justice Montfird for further be
ing. •
1:13' A Munich periodical relates, that a man'
Matthias Mnagelbacher. being attacked by a se
of the.tooth-ache.stoPped up his ears with gun
not knowing but what it was . the Common cotton
accustomed to use in inch cases. In retiring
room fpr the night, he sealed himself before a w. ,
from which a spark flew out and struck the tuft
gun-Cotton, which exploded with such violence
blew.the whole top of his head a.-
In the Richmond Whig of Monday Man artic 0 eo
plaining bitterly of the denukemtie.politicians of the et
for taking the wind cult of the sails of the whig siar
holders. by pretending a rampant zeal for the el earl
of slavery. The whigs. rusys the -Richmond pri lltx: at
moderate calculation, own two-thirds of the neg
the state. and the Whig party is largely in the 9 3 .1 0 n
east of the mountains, where the black poptililiP°
Principally found, •The demagogues." says thet
paper. sconffigly. who traduce the whigs by willing , e l
the abetters of of, the abolntioniats. "do not. theliTh
in nine cues out of ten, QWZI a uegroe'e toe Pail.'S
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