1M0!. , . • WASIIIIiIGTON RUMORS. under , The correspondent of the Pennsylvanian, date of Match .I,di writes aslollsteist "Ily-the.bye, nil the stories You see , concerning the orming of southern or other members, are but the creation ofd morbid propensity, for wonder ; mongering on the part of some •Of my 'brethren of the press. I question whether. a Angle member, either from North or South, hatiownied, expressly in anticipation of a difficulty in thirliall. At all times there are, probably, one or two from' both sections who are foolish enough to wear concealed weapons;, liut%ith'theses efeeptions; . titi - neembers are armed: To. say the least ofit, there is no anitit of generosity or fairness manifesteddn attributing to the south: ern men aNcie this idea of arming. It is'this habit of mistepresenting - th'it South, in which there exists t extretne danger.' Hearing the troth concerning the Routh and her sons, ;from so few sources, unfounded imprepionsconeeretng the South are generated in the minds cif the northern public, only to be dispel led, I fear,' when it may be too late. • if Mr. Webster intends bringing formals', a Mis tenni corepinmise extension reposition, his , imme tfiate friends are not aware alb° fact.' Of this, you may rest assured. 1,1 therefore, am inclined to re turn to my original 'opinion, that he will do no such thing. lie is certainly itnpressed with the belief, that the Union is in inmineut danger, and probably believes that nothing short of a firm adherence to the original Missouri coMpritmiso bargain, between liortlisand South, will save the Union. But the chances are ten to one that lie has not the nerve to propose to adhere to Ir. Since writing, as above, have heard a laughable story, which, if true, afford, a Satisfactory key to the newspaper rumor, that Mrs W. is to bring in the compromise propnsition. fie is said, on Friday last, over a basket of excellent charnpaigne, to have pledged the company 'present, (southern men with few exceptions,) to do so, they having, as the gen erous wine warmed in them, become more and more emphatic in 'their declarations, that he alone, could awe and persuade the North to do that justice in the premises, which they aver must be done if the Union is saved. On Saturday, over another basket of the same brand, the geneial terms.of his proposi tion and said to have. been arranged, and on Sunday it received (the same parties being present,) over still another basket s the third and final licking into shape. In the meantime, fall of gratitude for the " entire absence of seetional prejudice, which his do. termination to father the resurrection of the Missou ,ri.compromistievieced, Messrs. Clemens and Foote praised him to the skies in the Senate, tattle infinite horror and alarm of the Massachusetts delegates in the ifous.e, which+ votes with never failing unanimi ty for every thing broached by Messrs. Giddings, Boot, Allen, or Preston King. By arrangement, early in this week, Messrs. Grinnell and Ashati) read the great family a lecture—the nrdorcreated in that distinguished man by the three pleasant parties above referred to having cooled off. They soon succeeded in convincing him, that to step off the Massachusetts anti-slavery platform just now, will be to sign his own political death warrant. So Mr. Webster at once pledged himself to abandon the idea of playing the great pacificator. So much for the operation of sober second thought. I regret, ex ceedingly, that he has permitted considerations per smut to himself, to induce him to forego his former excellent-determination. No one, from the South, now appears disposed to venture to broach, formal ly, the only basis of.settlement—an extension of the Missouri compromise line—which, from present ap pearances, seems at all likely to be acceptable to the South. Yet,.at no previous moment, bas the mind of Congress been apparently in a mood so ex - cellent fur the settlement of the difficulty—there having been far less sectional acrimony displayed in either hall of Congress dories, the past week, than at any previous time during the present session. Again, March 5, the same correspondent says: We had*two speeches on the question niche day, only, in the hfouse—from Mr. flail. of Me:, an anti- Benton DemoCret, and frorri Mr. Cabell, a Southern chivalry-Whig, the first part of whnieslitrt was a talk to Bencombe s to reconcile it to his (*.eerie against Winthrop, fur the Speriliership. He. is a eledCr fellow, and a great favorite'ivith all. Parties . in the Hall, though, as occasion may require, he can Arlin blond and thunder, as to-day. However, Ith does such things sn adniirnblv, that nn one seems di...Wl:sett to get mad with him, as with MessrS. Tnombs or Venable, for pursuing the same course. Mr. Hall's speech was an able °Wet in favor" of theseroprietrof admitting California. It derives additional interest from the fact, that the speaker was a volunteer in' the regiment of Price, going through his entire, campaign as a private in the ranks. He made strong speech, indeed, taking ' ground entirely 'with Gen. Cass, and demanding that his Southern brethren shall all come back to that position; and that the North 0111 carry its respire silents out, not to the, ear merely, but in fact—by having it stipulated that the settlement of the terri. eory acquired from Mexico, and all future acquisi tions shall be tent free to the South, without the dratir-back of the prevalence of the impression that Congress would or could legislate against slavery in territories. ' - Mr. Foote made an important move in the Senate, to-day. This was to rise, and on the part of the Smith, (nfter consultation with most of the South ern Senators) to disavow nal Southern sentiment, two positions taken by Mr. Calhoun. The first was his tosertien, that there woe none in the North that could be relied on to do 'Ostice, willingly, to the South; and the second, the the South required the change in the Constitution, demanded by, Mr. Cal houn. Mr. C. crinie - into The Senate Chamber while Foote was speaking. am', in replying to that gentle- Man, was evidently, under areat excitement.--as ex cited as I have ever seen him. Ho reaffirmed, with great emphasis, these questioned views, and essayed to rebuke F. sharply f , r dissenting from them. But Foote defended himself, and his positions, with great good nature and ability—clearly, I think, g6tting the advahtage of his herculean antagonist. On the pert of those Southern Senators, he maintained that all the South demanded was 'the administration of the powers of the general government, in stricr.cmn pliance with the spirit of the slavery compromises ofithe Constitution: and that she would g r acef u lly hew to such decisions against tier as naturc--cli. ante, soll,'positioM kc. might make, ICorreoponitece of die DalOlllOlC Sun.) Wssuixtiowr, March 0, 1850. i Important private intelligen/e has been received fom Prance, which renders probable the Speedy cc urrence of a revolution there.. I may hare home particulars to give to-morrow. t This morning tiiero was a , presentation at the . resident's House, of a gold medal, to Col. Bliss, under a resolution of the Assernbly of New York.— The medal was *Seined by Cul. Ciaxton—all the New York delegates'preSent. j At the same time, a silver curry-comb was presen ted by Gov. Seward to the President. It was a private offering froM a manufactory of carry-combs in New York. On the same occasion, a New York member presented to the President, from the Pisca tory Association:of NeulYork, with suitab!e remarks, a golden fish—Whether a sheep's head, shad, cod, or sturgeon, I did not learn—but its moral was that "there's as good fish in the sea as over came out of k"—a moral of extensive application in politics and business. - 1 , Senator Cooper, of Pennsylvania; made' a speech to-day, from a manu script, n which he bed in , his hand, in opposition to the letters of Sir Henry But- Aver. As he read the Speech - , 'and us he also mode reference to his constitutents-and - their interests, it is to be presumed that it is to he con-idered an act of WO State, and intended to aid the Union interest by raising a little' miiss with England. • _ It has now been three months since we heard from Pennsylvania and Mr. Meredith, their views and pro jects in regard to the tariff; but nowhere at all has the subject been named, except ( those letters of the tritish Minister., The Pennsylvania Senior s an d An iron rims tern ought to thank Sir Henry Buliver, f or the notice helms taker, of the subject, for it is the only Means by ivhich it could be temporally res cued from obtivion,j as for as Congress 114 eniteerned. tut, instead of!that, Mr. Cooper assailed titer British Minister personally and officially. This in terfera,nce•on this question he pronounced to be im roritint andobstrusive,and he declared that it ought o he rebuked by the administration. Ile even went o far as' o censure' Sir Henry nelweee officiActin uct as minister lultimiii...:.which must beconsider-, ed, in an Ame r ican; Senator, as remarkably peril cent and unobtrusive. The letters of the British minister are - in the , Eutwepapers; They simply ex prßis the wishes of his governMent. It 'may be a matter of doubt whether it was_ expedient for the Executive to send this correspondence to Congress. It was not-naked -for by Congress. ,There is nothing before Congress on the subject, and,it is accompan ied with n exe c utive suggestions, or recOmment dations. 'There_is no treaty on foot in reward to WIT rag-, ulitions, and 'none is proposetVon either side.' The, British goverainkt took precfsely, the same; course which our government did itfregard to the duties on_ tobacco. Gen;Cass was in's'tructed to remonstrate against the existing legislative enactment on this subject; but the French Government took no excep tion to it. They did not, however, send Mr. Cases remonstrances to the Chambers. • , _ . But the occasiorr gave rise to very strong remarks complimentary to Sir Henry Bultver, and in vindi cation of his course, from Messrs. Clay, King, Cass, and Davis of !slags.. end others. , Ansitssiox oti!STA•ins.--;—lti the adthission of States to the Union, there teems to . have been-no specific rule open the subject. We find in the New Orleans Picayune a particular account of the admission of each new State, which appears`to be accurate, and being of interest at this time, we condense it within the limits our columns ,allow. Vermont the first State admitted, was received into the Union without a perminent State constitution, in'l79l. Kentucky was the second State admitte d in June, 1792—the State constitution was nut trained when this State was admittetl t , Tennessee, funned out of territory ceded by North Carolina, was admitted in 1796, the people having. previously framed a constitution and State. overnment, Pselirrell the said State has be came one of the United States." Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois,. and Alabama, were admitted severally in ,the order named, and in the case, of each there 'was a previous act of Congress authorizing the calling of a convention to organize State governments. Maine, the, next State, had the content of the 'Legislature of Massachusetts to form a State Constitution, hot no action of Con ? Tess previous to the admission. Missouri the lith in order, 'formed out oltho Lottisana terri tory applied for leave to form a State Constitution, and it was upon thisapplication that the restrictive clause concerning Slavery was attempted to be op plied. This gave rise to the Missouri compromise & upon the adjustment of, all con fl icting matters the State was declared a State of the Union in int by the President's Proclamation.' Arkansas and Mich igan were admitted by one act of Congress in 1836 the former withouticonditiOn;the latter prospectively there being some-questions of boundary involved-- The constitutions of both States were made by con ventions of the people without any previous, action of Congress. The same was the case, with Florida, which was'admitted along with foWa in 1815. There was a condition relative ti t , boundary applied to foWai which . she did' not comply with In form, but did substantially by presenting a new Constitution, which beintr accepted by Congress she came into the Union in 1846. The mode of the admission of Text as is familliarly known. Wise-Jinni, the last of the new States, went through the regular form of Ter ritorial organization and formed its State Constitu tion under authority of an act of Congress:—..Ledg grr.' - DENOURSIENT OF A MARRIAGE IN FASHIONABLE LIFE.—The Cincinnati 'Dispatch, of the 28th ul; , sayss—Everybody will recollect the high wrought and gorgeous description of the wedding of Mr. T. B. Lawrence, son of Abbott Lawrence, he Boston millionaire, and present Minister of the United States "heir the Court of St. Jame's.", The descriptions were highwrought; penny-a-liners. were brought from the Eastern cities to note the bridal array, the brilliant trosseau of the bride—the.magnificent jew els and the splendid dresses direct from Paris,— Even the "bridal chamber" was thrown open to vul gar gaze l and the nuptial couch and Parian purity of the sheets submitted to gross criticism. The pick and chOice of the "Upper Ten" of the whole Union were present. Governors and Ex-Governers were "as 'thick as hops." Members Of Congress were as common as in 'the federal city in term timh, the bridal attendants numbered many beautiful rep• resentatives of every portion of the Union--..the blondes °NIT North and the burnettes of the South. l EverY thing "went merry t.tt.emirriage bell." The parties went to their !tonics in 11 - rston. The honey moon had Scearcely waned, when a flare-up oectirred, and a separation followa. 'The following disgraceful sequel to the brilliant- description; - We' have before noticed, vre lied in the Louisville papers of Monday. 'Whatever just 'cause Mr. Lawrence may have fur his course —sullenly those know where the - . shoe. pinches who wear it—we think this sequel to the grandiloquencaccounts of his marriage prove hint to be'a very small potato indeed. Verily, let those who rejoicti in "love in a cottage" ponder upon the vagaries of the blind god, when domiciled in a palace: NtricE,-IVhereas, my wife, Sallie %V. Law rence, has wilfully and without cause &salted me this is tO caution all persons agaiost•harborinir or trust ing her on my account, as 1 hold myself responsible for no debts contracted by her Boston, Feb. - 18, 1850. HAv.ora..-9vniat Rs:port - F.—A vessel that left Ilavona on lie 2 . 21 of Febuary,' brings the very amusing int lligence Oat a report was current. at that place fiat President TAT.t.on was about to ab dicate in favor of General CASS, who was to take possession of the White House as his successor in the Presidency. We think it not at all unlikely that such a report might circulate at Havana, and be believed to a con siderable extent, So grossly ignorant are the common pcople 6 1 01 Spanish countries, and in some not Spanish, of our political institutions, and of the man ner in •whieli the Presidents ,of the, Republic are made. There was a report ailnat,stoo, that another expe-, dition' was being; organized against Cuba, and that this time, not Round Island, but Chngres, would be the point for embarkment, and that steamers would assemble at that place for the purpose of miming the expeditionary force to their destination. Of the truth or nun-truth of thig, know ingttothing, we have nothing to say, only, that Chagres is a strange place to be a deewd for a military rendezvous. • if it has . 'wen rtfectetl, it must be for security from interrup tion, 04 the New Oranadian authorities could not stop thtexpedition if they would, and nobody eke would have a right to stepsuppose.—Wash. Globe. ' Mrssissiert.—A meeting of, members of the Leg islature, and others, was held at Jackson, on the 19th ult., Governor Quitman presiding, for the purpose of opposing the admission of California with its anti slavery constitution. The committee on resolutions reported a series, limiting this opposition to +hill honorable and constitutional means, and discotin tenancing the idea that her admission is a cause foi calling a convention for measures of - "redress."— This i 3 a stab at the Nashville Convention, almost as unexpected, and, Under the circumstances, as se vere, tis blr. IFoote's attack on Mr. Calhoun. Other resolutions expressly recognize the "unlim ited right" of'citizens of any territory - , in forming a constitutiotk to base it. upon any principle that is republican; while, at the same time, they deny the authority of Congress to - 4.ject eState applying for admission into the Union, because its- constitution either tolerates or rejects slavery. - Their objection to the admission of California is because its creation may, in their estimation, be the result of a ofithse and unjust policy" on the part of the Government of the United States, and an act of fraud ttnd oppression on the people of the slaveholding States. The why and the wherefore of this argument is not stated very clearly. A P.ter.--A j.,ily oft fellow, who resitiqa In the Tenth ward, considerable of a politician, feeling very anxious- to seethe report of the meeting at Tammany null last Saturday evening jumpedlout of bed on Sunday Morning, and without waiting to dress, ran to the door, and stopped a ;boy who was trudging along crying Sunday Herald. Seearcely, tad he secured the , paper, when to his dismay, he ,heard a couPle of ladies silio resided up stairs; (be' forgot ihst they were to leave early to visit a sick relative.) To get back 'to hts. room could eat be done without exposing himself, so he bolted into the Street, and tool; tp the area.. ,!Jere the jolly,captain found the door locked, and the ladies closed the door above.— He had no night key; his family were mostly in the third story, 'and there he stood 'witnessing a fine snow storm in his shirt and drawers'. After stand ing post upon a door teat about thirty' minutes, he heard some signs of life within, sand after rapping some time, the door was opened by one of the girls employed tip stairs, who reported immediately to the captain'siady that her husbaild had returned home without his clothes. Se Much . for reading Sunday papers.—.V. Y, Herald • TREMENDOUS PROPER' (From the h becomes out disastrous condegrat city. The4rnCrier numerous-stores sot are now: in ruins: and will !milkmen' die necessity °firm measures being tal Getter protection from fire. had there been a supply of w a ter, aka eient to keep the enginer in.constant play, without the necessity of ceasing n order to change, from one resevoir to another, tie fire might hare been oit tinatiished in the buildini, where it took. the fire broke out, a • about hniflast two, on yesterday morning, in tb. building next above the American Hotel, occupi.d by L. B. Shears, as a res taurant, and for six hours its course of destruction was unstayed. , A heavy, gale was bloWing from the south-wesr,and fears vero entertained, not alone by the faint-hearted of Or citizens, that the devas tat ion' would prove much greater. But thanks to .the untiring efforts of our firemen, than whOrrt no or .ganized body of men dor worked with /More 'assi duity, the ravages of the element have - been confined 1 within bnunds less extensive than' wail feared, and the les, though great, can be looked upon as not , irreparable. The fi re co mmenced in Shear's Arcade in the basement kitchen, it is supposed from a cooking stove, and destroyed the whole interior of that build ing, before communicating to any other. The loss in this building is divided as follows: L. B. Shears, Refectory, all destroyed: Loss •$lOOO--Insured $5OO. Darling lk.fienyon, second story, Bowling Saloonf nseredsBoo. E. A. Darling, third story, Billiard Rooms—lnsured $lOOO, which will cover the loss. In the second story, across the hall from the Bowling Saloon, ,was the Barber shop, of— Smith. The upper alai)? was,bccupied by several gentle men for private lodging roams. The fire then Communicated to the north-east cor net-9f the Ameridan Hotel roof and in a few moments that structure was in flames. While the energies of the firenien were all directed to saving this splen did building, it was' discoved that the Layfeatto - Street Church, (Rev. Mr. Heacock's) situated on the corner of • Layfayette place and. Washington street, about forty rods front the original fire, had ta ken fire from sparks carried by the wind. In less than half an hour, the whole interior of this building wasdestroyed. From the Church the fire extended to the dwelling house Of G. P. Stevenson, corner Washington anti Lafayette streets, and to the stables of Geo. Metzger, and the [ember yard of Dodge Baldwin, all of which were burned. The losses Were as follows'. Presbyterian Church. Insured $4,000. G. P. Stevenson's dsvelling, ; -furniture mostly tared. Lass $3,500 to $4,000; no insurance. Phoenix Hotel stables, owned by Phebe Sinith and her heirs; insured to full amount. Geo. Metzger's livery stable. Loss $2OO, covered by insurance in, Genesee Mutual. Phoenix Hotel, E. T. Cross.— Furniture damaged by removal. Insured in Sarato ga Mutual to the fell amount, The Hefei itself was saved by tearing down the building ['etc. - Ten it and the stables: •The American Hotel was entirely de stroyed. Muchlof the furniture was removed, but was damaged lola great amount. Mr. Hodges was insured for $BOOO, Which will fall short of covering hid loss. The huiltitng Was owned by Jno. E. Thay er & Brother, of Boston; and we learn was insured in Hartford offices for $lO,OOO. J. T. Adams, Confectioner, American Hotel Buil ding. L oss $5OO. No Insurance. Bloomer Hell —This establishment embraced the rear and base ment of two stories; occupied in front and the upper stories, by Sands Barber shop; Wm. Mang's Boot and Shoe shop s ul Francis's Patent medicine Depot. Sand's stock is nearly all destroyed. Loss $250. No Insurance. Mang and Francis are heavy suf ferers, but their loss wo are unable to, assertain.— I'. T. Bloomer, Refectory, Dancing Mall and Or dinary. Loss $3,500. Insured $1,500 in Union Mutual, New York. In the Second story were the 'uite of royals Occupied by W.. Cary, M. D. as a pirvate residence. Considerable of his furniture was saved. Insured sl,too in the Union Mutual, New York, which will probably cover his loss. Next below the store occupied by Francis, was the Paris store, a FancY,Dry Geed Establishment. The firetnen:were about tearing, this: dQ Ig, ~when the walls ph the building ,next North, fell upon and completely c‘rushed'it. ,Loss not iscertitined. At this point, the fire on the West side of Meitt street was wrested. . • . On Eastern side of Main Street wits a row of Wooden buildings, extending froni the corner of Clinton street to Home Sr, Timmerman's brick build ' ing, occupied by the proprietors as an extensive Fur niture Manufactory and Ware House. The fire communicated to the Park House, on the corner, of Clinton and Main streets, and burned through to Washington, destroying all North of Herne, & Timmerman. In the alley, runningout of Clinton street, was a two story wooden dwelling, occupied Iby two or three families. All-destroyed. • On Washington street were two or three dwell ing h ouses, of wood, occupied by negro families.— These were all burned. The streets in the neighborhood of the disaster present a woful spectacle. , Eagle, Clinton end Pearl are filled with furniture, and here and there are seen the flimsies and children'of a family, weeping, as they turnover the rescued fragments of what lately composed their household goods. The eight is pain ful enough, and unaccustomed as we are, in Buffalo, to kindred ones, it strikes us With an appalling die tinctness.. God forbid it should be often repeated. T. B. LAwnizci. liluxtco.-31r. Walter Gibson, who recently went to Mexico tin official business, and who has mode a Pretty'extended survey of the country, lilts returned to New York, and communicated, several interesting items of intelligence concerning the so 7 chi and political condition of the country: "The aspect of affsirs at .tho capital was very stormy at the time of Mr. G's visit. Troops were at one time ordered out to surround the excited lo calities, and an outbreak was expected at the Thea tre.f A feeling in favor of annexation to the United States, prevails.among the. monarchists, who coin rise the wealthy Spaniards; or if ' that cannot be obtained, then they wish the adoption ofsome,mode of colonization from Europe, under the ogenby of American Companies. This latter feeling is earn estand extensive, and the plan for colonization is based upon the purchase of large tracts of Jand in the State of Vera Cruz, by American capitalists, and the settlement thereon of a large emigration' from Germany, France, and England, in a body large enough to secure them front loss. by depredations and otherwise. Mr. Cr. has a memorial from the owners of fifty-two hacientlasin the State of Vera Cruz, asking that this plan may be adopted. Many of them are decidedly in.,favor of annexation. • The desire for the return of Sar.ta Anna was growing broad and deep, and it was felt more and more daily, that, he is the only man who can control the destinies of Mexico. SUMMAR ABDUCTION CiAlll3.--The 'Boston Herald mentions an elopment and marriage of a Mr. Wm. T. Rico and a Miss Anna Howland. The gentle man wits a son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, who opposed the union as derogatory to the honoi of their house. The consequence i wt,s, an elopement, and marriage at Detroit, Michigan, where the gen tleman became connected with a flourishing mer cantile_house, end was in a fair way of becoming wealthy. in the course of.a year, their residence. became known to the, family of the bridegroom, who became angry, and, untie! sumo pretext, abducted him to parts unknown, since which•time he has not been heard of. The 1841 returned to her mother, who, to silence any improper rumors, wrote to the magistrate who had performed the 'Ceremony, and received his certificate, which the Herald publishes. It bespeaks the sympathy .of tha.public, in view of her speedy appearance on the stage, as her haughty father-in-law will afford her no assititence.. A lf, 4:Am's Orssuorr of North Carolinian tolls the old farmer of that region, road: "He Was first m road, and thought it woul d build it. But he came t gon and produce,land drov ho got bac's to Chatham, o him if &riled seen the plan the had seen it i 4 Well, d 'Welt, don't you think you much weight only with y on a common rood?. ' , Oh, rate; and its a fact that wh end cif the planks and . strn ere 4 horse stopped arid too ER' $lOO,OOO OF COXED!!! Courier.) ) record the moat me ever visited our Park Church, 'O4 tontiguoili to both a been a heavy one, l' A PLANK. ROAD.—The a following ,anecdote of an who had tried the plank , \ I liheot waste sed to of t m ho on g y lan t k o .ayetteville with his we ' on it some miles. When i ir merchant friend'aslied i riiadi , eiree; lie said; I d you drive On lir • Itch' an carry four times as i four-horse teary', SS es,'•esys' he, fit- is first t the - wagon got to the the heavy dirt toad, ) •tii around.": brie (thserntr. E E. PA. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCEI.,I6. 1850. 07 M 1353711. 1 111 ) 5 .Almot, Raid and Omni. int accopt our thanks for teglsloci re' fa:rors. NAvmsrms.--Navigstion is now fairly open from this poil:wcitward. Fer the last fait , 'days • our docks have assumed a very animated appearance with steamers daily arriving and departing. On Wednesday night tle - Canada went do►pq _aa farts CaHarlow's, but could go noleither for ice: Ida few days the annual blockade of Buffalo will be raised, when the regular lines will. be formed. and lake Erie ;again bo covered with smoke and Suictria.-4•We learn from letters heeived in this city from an Francisco. per last steamer, that Joux CAR.. tuca. wha,absconded from "this city last fall, committed suicide tt-ilay or so before the steamer left. by cuttinglis throat and slabbing himself in tho abdoMen several times. Ho was not dead at tho mailing of the letters containing the information, but the surgeon who was called to attend him, said he could not recover: Ho was ferinerly of Buffalo, where we believe his family now reside. mr Th. Ga.teUe. learn; that a boy named IVILLIABI 111se, son of Joseph Moe, of Le &cuff township. hung himself' on Sunday morning lest in a building attached to his father's dwelling. lie was aged about sixteen, and it is supposed the rash' act was committed under tho iniluenco of mental aberration. Coroner's Inquest in eccordenco with the above statement. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD.—As most of our readers aro probably aware, the entire* work _on this road from flornelsville to Dunkirk, a distance 0f•125 tidies, has been put under contract, to be finished ready for the cars by the first of April, 1831. This is sufficient to determine where the ostensible terminus will be—the law first, and the contracts next, making Dunkirk that point—but from the following letter from the President of the company. in reply to a committee of citizens of Cattaraugus county, who had asked a resurvey of a part of the route with "reference to a terminus at ERIE, Pennsylvania, by, tho most direct and accessablo route" "without reference to a terminus at Dunkirk," it will be plainly seen that the company look forward at no distant day to extending their road to this point. The President dooms it a 'wry desirable privilege if the company could Le allowed, by the legislature, to build a branch to Eric." No doittr, for a company • that has shown so much energy and intelligence must see that until their road roaches a harbor' . on Lake Erio, it will not befinished• —the great end of its construction will not be fully real ized! But let the letter speak for itself—it is as explicit as it well could be, at present: . • ALBANY. Fla. 26. 1850. Messrs. IL Owen, G.• A. S. Croaker, T. Smith, F. S Martin. and others. Gentlemen—l am in receipt of your proposition in re lation to the location and continuation of the N. Y. anti E. R. Road from Little Valley Crock to Lake Erie, and reply that your proposition is accepted, iu behalf of the Board of Directors, with a slight mollification relative to surveys and examinations "with reference to a terminus at Erie. Pensylvania." The company. I think, have in New York. all the surveys and maps necessary to a full understanding of tho subject, and I ant not willing, with the short time limited for the completion of the Road to Lake Erie, to alfow of much time being spent upon that survey: more particularly. as it would require legislative action both is our State and Pennsylvania, before we could avail ourselves of that privilege. if the route were feasible. This subject will receive a careful examina tion and consideration, and I will add that it would-be 'a very desirable privilege, if the company could be allowed by the legislature, to build a branch to Erie. If the route shall prove favorable and the privilege referred to could ho had, it would have a very important influence upon the whole question. If this question is satisfactori lv disposed of in the legislature, it is our ambition to put tire work immediately Under contract. In commenting upon this letter, the Jamestown :Vi xens says; "Now is the time for. the citizens of James town to have MO "fever." We have no doubt that, with proper exortione on the part of the people of this place and other localities on the proposed branch route, and when the WY. & E. R. R. Company shall become thorough ly acquainted with the feasibility and importance of a branch Road to Erie, they will not be slow in resolving on its construction. Why is not this a proper subject for a public meeting?" AK ot.n FAILILIAR FACE.—Wo were pooled the other day, upon opening our box lit, the, post office, with the old familiar face of "The Western Literary Messenger," which for the last six months has been a stranger to -our table. We had long since concluded our friend CLEMENT. itS Editor, lin cut our acquaintance; hero, hoWever, was not only the arch number, but every number since it ciso uncerim 'ously stopped. The "Messenger" has lost nothing in interest—on the Contrary, we think the March menthor a decided improvement upon its predecessors. There is more of the magazine. and less of the newspaper about it, and although ills not, wo am persuaded, what it might be In this respect, yet it will pass. It is well worth the price of subscription', $1 50. . Sunenise Psnr►rs.--This is a style of amusement' just now in vogue in Philadelphia. Some twenty or thlity couple make up a party to pounce upon you unnoticeed, on some evening ahead. They bring their own fun and refreshments; bolt in. take up your carpets, sling about your furniture without authority of ownership. and whirl yourself and daughter away in the danco with unchecked looseness. GODLY'S LADY'S lloort.-Tho March number of this favorite Magazine contains twenty-one attractive Embel lishments, and thirty-Arm original contributions. Among the Embellishments. "The Confidante" and "The Young Angler," two magnificent steel engravings. are especial ly to be admired. The portrait of "Julian Cramer," Godoy's Musical Editor, is also a very handsome picture of a handsome man. Tuckerman, W. Gilmore Simms. Henry B. Hirst, Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, and Mrs. E. F. Ellett, ore the principal contributors, and have made Godsy's brilliant pages sparkle with the etrusionx of true genius. The Lady's Book maintains successfully its proud distinction as a Periodical that knows no rival. It lacks nothing. either in the intrinsic beauty of its Embel lishments, or the genuine merit of its literary contents, to make it the first among American Monthlies. Godey'a mature experience and unbounded enterprise are" invin cible. Phila.—L. A. Godey. $3 a year. For $3.30 we can furnish tbb Lady* Book and the "Observer" one year. FOR CALWORHU...-14 7 8 /MR from the Crawford Dem ocrat, that a company is forming in Meadville to start on the Ist of April. ,overland, for Califinnia. The Demo crat says "the company is composed of mostly young men, full of hope, and health, and energy, who trust to better their fortunes in that distant land." Ausmous.—The borough of Norristown, in this State, has become ambilletts, and is seeking to divest itself of its Pennsylvania atipellation of "Borough," by seeking to . be incorporstaas a city. under the title of ..Norris City." Wei don't blame { Ahem—nothing sounds so hateful It our ears as the word "borough," when applied to a town. We hope the day is not far distant when Erie will become in name, whit she ;is in reality. a city. US' According to some 'English statistics. as many Or sous have died bolero their twentieth year. where the factory system exclusively prevails. asbeforo their forti eth year elsewhpro We have no reason for supposing that the same system will produce a different effect in America. Fonoxmas.—f i leware of "Fives" •of the Westfield Bettlt, Chautenque co., which me nothing more then welt executed alterations from two's of the same• bank. DanocnavicVseronv tb Drrnorr.—.The "City of the Straits" has covered herself with' glory. At the muni cipal Election. helidop Monday last. Joan LAMlirs, Esq. wait elected Itlayor,by_it handsome majority over. the Taylor trhig ctutdidafe. Thus have the people again rebuked the present weak end contemptible ndatlatetra tion. BENJAMIN LODER Pres% N. Y. & E. R. Road ANOTHER'WHIG SENATOR DOING JUSTICE ,TO THE DEM9CRACY. It is well know to our readers that them has been much speculation in Washiugten. and elsewhere. since the meeting' f Congress in regard to the coarse Hon DAPIRL %arum, would take on the exciting question of slavery in the tOrritori4; Oa the one hand he has been repre sented an having matured* compromise , ernbrachig all the questions in dispute, which ho would take an early and fitting occasion to offer for the consideration of the Senate and the country. On the other, all this has been denied, and the opinion advanced that he would ho found. as on alt previous similar occasions, firmly and tin Oily upon the sectorial side of the question. Last' week, however, all these speculations were ended, by a speck from him upon the questkin, is which we are happy to say ho takes the broad an, national ground et an Amer ' . man Statesman—the ground so fully 'oecupied by the natiottet Democracy in the campaign era and upon which all our great Statesmen, of both political parties, are fast planting,themsolves. In • a short review of the speech the Washington Union saysi it "was very able. and the last part of it was marked with groat intrepidity, frankness, and liberality. We trust . in Heaven that he has not spoken in vain. Wo cannot but 'entertain the 'fervent hope, that Mr. Webster will ossentiativ contribute to the adjustment of this distracting controversy. Ito contended that Congress was hound. with the consent of Texas, to establish four slave States south of the line of 36.4 degrees. He declared his, conviction that Nature herself had passed irrepealable laws, which would for bid the settlement of sloveshi California and New Mex ico, and therefore he would not consent to do an act which was derogatory and insulting to the. South, in,in corporating the Wilmot Proviso with any governmen which might be organized for these Territories." Dot upon this point, let thelteMorable Senator speak for him self: • "Now. Mr. President, I have established, so far " as I propose to go into any observations to, establish, the pro position with which I set out—upon which I mean to stand or to fall; that is, that the whole territory in the States of the United States, or in newly acquired Terri• tories of the United States, ,has a fixed and settled elm teeter now—fixed and settled by law, which cannot be repealed, in the case of Teirts, without vioLtion of pub lic faith, and which cannot be repealed by any human power in regard to California and Now Mexico. Under one or the miter of these laws, every foot of territory in the States or in the Territories has now received a lite(' and decided character. Sir, if we were now making a government for New Mexico. and anybody should pro pose the Wilmot Proviso, I should treat it exactly as Mr. Polk treated that proposition for excluding slavery from Oregon. Mr.. Polk was known to be in opinion decided ly adverse to the Wilmot Proviso. but he felt the neces sity of a law fur the goierament of the Territory ofDre gen. And though the Wilmot Proviso wits there, he knew that it would be a perfectly nugatory Proviso; end since it must be entirely nugatory, since it took away no describable, estimable, weighable, or tangible right of .the South, ho said he .woultlsign the bill for the sake of enacting a law for the government of the Territory, and lot that entirely useless—and in that connexion entirely senseless—Proviso remain, For myself, I will say—we hear of the annexation of Canada—if there ha any man, any of the northern democracy, or any of the free-soil par ty, wtio suppose it necessary to insert a Wihnot Proviso •n the territorial government of New Mexico, that man ill of course be of opinion that it is necessary to protect the everlasting snows of Canada from the vote of slavery, by the same overpowering wing of an actOf Congress. Now, air, wherever there is a practical good to be donev, wherever there is an inch of land to be stayed back from 'becoming a slava territory. I am ready to insert the prin ciple of the exclusion of slavery. I am pledged to that from 11337—pledged to it again and again—and I will, perform those pledges. hut I will not do a thing unne cessarily that wounds the feelings of others, or that 'does disgrace to my own understanding." h will be seen by this that the Hon. Senator occopie the identical position of the Democratic party in '4B— that the ‘Vilmot proviso is unnecessary and hies= pedient—that slavery does not and cannel. exist in those territories without positive enactment, and that, therefore, its passage is only Calculated to exasperate one portion of the Union against the other without any corresponding benefit. In another ponied of his speech he reprobates with great force the course of the abolitionists of the North, whose fanaticism he'd counteracted their own de• signs to loosen the bonds of slavery in the South. He freely admits that the North had not carried, out her I constitutional obligations to restore fugitive slaves, and pledges himself to err-operate in the immediate passage of a new and more efficient law furl this purpose. lie expresses Ifis willingness to recognise the right of Texas up to a certain boundary, (we believe 34 degrees.) and to make ample compensation to her for the territory north of that lino which she might relinquish to be annexed to New Mexico. In a subsequent reply to Mr. Calhoun - . he did not commit himself about California. reserving whenAhat question came up, to take such a course about her constitution. boundary, and admission into the Union. as his best lodgment might dictate. His speech was interspersed with various suggestions. ex= pressed in simple but eloquent language, upon the vari ous topics which are connected with this subject. Ho confessed frankly and emphatically lho generosity which Virginia had shown in relinquishing her claim to the Northwestern Territory- He declared' himself willing, if she or the South would desire it, to appropriate the proceeds of these lands, (which he estimates at 80 mil lions of dollars,) or, indeed, almost anything else, to as slat in ridding the southern States of the free people of color. Be pronounced a beautiful eulogium on the value of the Union. He denied that thorn could be a peacable secession, and spoke in no measured terms of his oppo sition to the Nashville convention, if it should assemble for tho purpose of diiaolving the Union. TAKING IT EAST. --it is said, -remarks the Bostop Pose: .that Gen. Taylor is takipg life in the - White House very smoothly, in spite of all the troubles that encompass the 'real regents of national affairs. Clayton maybe lost in the labyrinth of his own puny, plots—Meredith may be' in the deepest distress for money "lo Collect the reven ue"Collamer may play the special devil with the mails, to his own chagrin pnd the'people's vexation—it's all the same to the President. He eats, drinks and sleeps with out any of that painful solicitude about the nation's ad vantage and the honor of the administration . - which ; was wont to disturb the bosoms of tho "earlier presidefits," Surely, "if ignorance is blies, (and there is no dotibt of it in this case) 'tis folly to be wise." . Witha quiet uncon cern about the present difficulties which envtrou the gov ernment, lie is Said to be dreaming—sometimes aloud— of the fat loaves and delicate fishes of a "second term"— all to be had for scarcely so much as the asking, as the further tribute of a devoted 'party and 41 admiring peo ple! The general's "(glum fine dignitate" reminds us very forcibly of the Ethiopian minstrel's summunbonum, which seems to bo exactly that of the "second Washing-, ton":— 00 WI were do President of dese United Stele. Pd eat 'lasses candy and'swing upon de gate:" ID' A child in Cincinnati, kneeling down to pray ran a largo needle its entire length into its knee, which had to be cutout. According to tho custom, "this should servo as another warning against the practice." 0711ona Room( !NO.-It appears that they are also troub led with knockings in , California. A letter from the land of wealth says: "Wo are now knockiag with both fists fall of gold for admission at the door of the Union." The Louisville Courier, Says that a colored boy felt from the upper awry -of the Journal office alighting on the roof of a building twenty feet below.' It was thought he mustbe killed , but, says the Courier; providentially striking head foremost, be escaped uninjured. HEROIC. Some of the msnibers of Congress attended the sessions with revolvers in their pockets. They in. tend to dinolve the Union with a poctet pistol!--Ex Fa tcr„ For "revolvers" read pint flasks and yen will probably hit the nail on the head. 4 • MicnicisN:— . The Legislatnro of ritichigan ?eve passed resolutions initructlng their Senators and reprebentativui in Congresi. to,vote for the admission of California. with the constitution her people have made. OXThe Cincinnati papers say that i. jour printer in that city. had his pockets picked Of $lBO. We congratulate him far havinlhad that much money in his .pocket at one time--but the types are So treacherous. it is morn than probable they meant to say $1 80. THE GAZETTE AVOTAE PROVISO;i We hate btlt . e few words or reply to Make to th e :dl's tong-drawn -oat defence of its winding's app,..l Proviso question. The subject needs hot few ca minai l —.the course of Our cotemporary is too plaieli i vt . ort j tent. too glaringly incompatible with what it irv vi T. I or eighteen months since, to occupy much discussion. In doiog so. therefore, we sha l l adhere the question under discussion. We shall net t r ,, ei *our road to argno the propriety of ad mittioff c i b tor ea a leitate 7 —that; to our mind, admits of no utu se d we bare nothing to say as to oar .new 1 "acquired fur the purpose of estendlngsfavervit, is not the feet, neither is it pertinent to the issue—neither shall be drawn from one cuss the "obtuseness" ofeer or our eotemp o i m i elt. locL We have nelthen'ef us, we apprehen4, 3 vtlit to brag about in this respect, end if we had, I tfle rej,. of our respective papers caw very little Whether the for of the Gazelles intellect is brighter than oen , ,1 more brilliant than his, so long as we maki ow p' I plain, and fortify them with facts; We l ett , childish ploy to those who cannot soar abov4 th eq. our cotemporery takes delight in them—if not rattle-boles aro more congenial to his tastes, l or ling his capacity. than calm and dispassionate cadet to place his preset:C.4nd former positions In theirs before his readers, why we certainly cannot object ourself. however. we beg to be understood other duties to perform—higher elms in viliv--th regail our readers with such boyish ter:utte r g o for. the personale of this discussion—too muelr, . but under the . circumstances nnavoidabld....v o d to facts: The Gazette has not touched the true question ~ which wo arrayed it before the public. On the COni it'steadily and designedly, we think, avoids it. Th: be very good tactics, but it strike us far othe i rsive. 1 face the music." let the c o n s equences be what they? we have always found the cheapest and shortest Ica :, of a dilemma. But what were the challges we { against our neighbor's consistency, Simply this: since the Wilmot proviso was defeated in the Hens ter hav,ng been struck from the three millio i n bill! if Senate. in 1896, the Gazette has been unre;roittingl denunciations of those northern Democratslwho roi i e concur with the Senate in thus striking it fE Sol thet has been too severe — no word too e t ong—n( pression too denunciatory—for its use in i regard ti act. It was urged by the friends of the gentleme4 o thus voted, that such "negative" vote id not them necessarily in opposition to "free to ritorr they were still in favor of it. but did not think at to "Pass it" except "in case of absolute necessity. l that their "great object was to prevent the spread moral leprosy of slavery—not to force through Co gus ..... en irretatiug uon-essential, simply because t embracut 'l' 3 ' good principle." They also contended, ti Mr. Cy,, ' cg ; Mr. Webster and other v. big Statesmen flu, cos:* Li ; and as the Grzrite now acknowledges, "that slaregiv‘. ing to positively prohibitory local causes, mad not „, in any of the territories of the United Sta es,.. ( i nf ir m they said, "fa the proviso alone!" The Gmerte 'met hear nothing of this kind—it scouted it-Iled it t eier to the North and succumbing to the Soul , and worth, f only ofyich "dough-faces" as Lewis Cale and .1 Li Thompson! But lo! a change has come fiver the pa: of its dream! California,. as the Democracy pee ittg oho wou'd, has adopted a constitution prohibitinEelre:: and is kbocking at the door of Congress fo i e admin a:- the-new territories are anxious to have the protect'sl. ; c of the general government extended over them; 5 d i i3l furtherance of this-Wjsh„ Mr. Root, of Ohio, a Ought. soilrr: o f f ered a resolution to instruct thii comma e. territories le bring in bills for their government xi' CI same 'provlso' clause. It was defeated, and that b) cit ern Whig votes, and the Gazette says it is iip,ht—b --es the defender and apologists of those whigs aim ro ti! lay it on the table, upon the pitiful plea that it was' ...: 1 - proper time for its introduction." The. 9mette. tl*.s.i certainly wrong now in defending the laying of th e a elution upon this table, or it was wrong iu dent sal those who vourd i against it before we had territory s o ply it to. Badl y eannot be right — one mull be zero g Rio en "improper time" now for the introduction - m a resolution when we Aare territories cr3 r ing aloud fa, government, Iry much more "improper" um t "time" have yen in 1846 when we had no I • and in order to get the question before i the boo , friends of the Proviso—the agitators we should say Sr forced to tack it upon the tail of a bill for the simpl pt pose of appropriatiog money? We wish the G• . . answer this question plainly: We wish ,it to be oat those who preached, and plead, and almost prat d ; the doctrine it now advocates iu regard to tho to Lino when it was heaping abuse upon their heads. Let a a this, and we shall think it honest and sincere:—le ea this, and tell its readers that those Democrats who cwi against whet it now calls "an irritating' non-esa• ul which "may kindle 6rea of discord very, difficult .t 1 tingnish," did right—aets4 nobly!—and , I we shall ion , no more to say! Let our cotemporary confess! Co resales' is said to be good' for the soul, end indie :at change for the better. Let our cotomporary gir ;S5 sign. t4n, and make tnanifestits repentance! tIT ; Si.Ax4R.—Our Vree-soil" friend of 'the Jamt, Citizen isignilty of a grievions slander---he more th Gamma that we sail in the same boat w4h hinneh the —Hon. Thaddeus Stevens! Thiddens is ens for having, it reality, a doses foot, b ut he Dell Whited it so plain As in his last speech for "Basco —a speech made to eounterhalance his sapped eta ern President, with three-hundred ..hutnau-caul use his own refined language. (IX The Hon. Lewis C. Levin is oat in an add the Philadelphia Sun in favor of the doctrine of interference; he thinks that the right ofself-gove is but partially enjoyed if Congress can exercise th of moulding domestic institutions. 1:1'E. Z. C. Judson, alias Ned Buntline, B ente , out) year to Blackwell's Island, for participation Astor Place riot, has been pardoned by the Gore New York. • (17 . COL. FitEMUNT, United SLUM Sena t or from fornia. arrived in the steamship Georgia, i rom C. accompanied by his lady and daughter. rs. E. covered from her late tieverts'llluess. No so Co Mont; he is just able to walk about, having had tracted attack of interfuittent fever. Wh.r, sea rested, the party will proceed to Washingt.u. ID The Editor of the Gaulle prides bimsel what he terms his "healthful and conteate appe the resust ho thinks of his "bechelorisrm ' A friend of our., of the feminine gender, mantle h • . greet many "healthful and contented" looking in her day that*made shocking bad pork. _ EP SAID 031. MAMMAS?, "I have uOlllO Ms% years, and not spent five dollars. in advertising.'l another, "1 have done Waken five yearsj i &adapt tenth of all my profits in, advertising, and has. mere than you have made in ten." Vithieh, illOlll intelligent of the two? co- Mrs. Farrington is said. by the Boston Pest, expressed an 'opinion that . ..there is se b4ssing li of health. particularly when you are sick." The was occasioned by what dm good lady caiied,o. ph, gy in her leg. ' I 07 The first locomotives, it is said,, did miles an hour. In 1225, a ntropeatt wrii maximum velocity at sic, and ridiculed "I as that we shall two loaantotive enginea to rates of 15,16.18 and 20 miles an hoor4 U3' James Smith. a young man reaklin, phio, was instantly kiihst ess the l'lth nU limb of a trea t whtch he was cutting do i catch a flying gm:Mel. - The limb sumo back of the head, breaking his skull. Hi broken. - - re lin man who has a pretty wile. two cow. a cat. dog. and fat baby. is, not sati will be until be TAXIS • IMIVIIPAP.IIO, El 1 ose I= nor Ce ,asn. . in a po• :cieot i d „ ADM al tl/23 of aver 6, pla uch ¢a' veiling ,bythl .n in 0 him thigh a 60 ha
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