111 tore Trouble about Cuba. Prom the N. Y. lousnal ofVoesuaerea. - For some days past, the Washington letter aril ' tars have been prognosticating a new attempt to re volutionise,the Island , of Whence -it •is' to proceed, has not been distinctly manifested, That 'is new expedition is supposed by the Cuban author,. lies to be in contenylation, if nut near its denoues meet, we have been for some time aware; and by ink telligence from Sp. in brought by the Niagara, it ap. pears that similar apprehensions are entertained by the - parent goternittent. - ' • Again.- we learn by the steamer Empire City which arrived here yesterday from Chares and Kings. ton, Jamaica, that the U. States frigate Potomac. Commodore Parker, was about to sail from the latter port for' Havana, and that - the British Steamer Pizen had been temporally plated under the order* ' of the A 'T nerican Commodore. his affords decisive evi dence that both the American and British naval com manders anticipated trouble. As commodore Par ker would not interfere with any insurrection at tempt in Cuba itself, it may be inferred from his movements that an invasion of that island was to be attempted, and.that American citizens were to be largely concerned in it. The fact . , that British t steamer was placed at his disposal, rnplies that one or more eteautere were in the employ of the invading expedition. We will now state the information from the island of Cuba to which we alluded above as having been eume days since communicated tq us from reliable source, but which we delayed to notice publicly, from an apprehension that the goverment of the island-might have been permaturely of causelessly alarmed: it was to theetfectthat the Cuban govern ment had ascertained that a new Irevolutionary 'ex pedition was on font, that it wee t O rendezvous some where in the island luf Htiyti, under Gen. Lopez, and attempt a !Wine at some port on the south aide of Cubs—probably Trinidad, the focus of democratic principles. F niter than this, not(tint was known ahhough rumor %tag busy in menu racturingal) kinds of stores. The government may have been, misin, formed, butithat sechtvas its information and beliefat the beginning of the present month, or lay on the 4th inen„ we have no manner of doubt. In the entpioy of the Government, are - a great number of spies, several of which, it is believed, are in New'York, and report to head quarters every movement of the revolutirmists:which they can dis cover or hear of, If the new expedition is alieady in a state of forwardness i lend - concentrated on the island of Hayti, it musthave 'been conducted with profound recreisy. it is said that the English and American Consuls at Havanna have agreed to act in concert as lathe character of the measures to be, taken for the protection of their countrymen, in case of any disorders at Havanna. The Governor is re ported to have in n engorged moment. that there were fifty Arnericins there whose ,every movement, was known and recorded, and who would be arrested as soon as' information should he received of the landing of the expediiion. It is further said thatfeapital froin the United States has been inves ted in prneertyl in Cuba, with a view to profit by an early change. The succescof the expedition, if it should effect a landing (which probably would be prevented by commodore Parker,) will deperid entirely upon the disposition of the inhabitants, of the troops of which last there are shout 20,000 at present en the island though a good deal edattered, The•dispositon of the people it is not satisfactorily known but as a pe'ner al remark, it may be said that the rich are in favor of the present order of things, while the middling and poorer classes would be willing for a change.— But it is not the nature nf a Spanish population to enter heart and hand into a contest, as Los Yankees do. They:are much more inclined to lock their doors and wait until th ?moment is over. Without co-op eration from the inhabitants or troops, the enterprise is hopeless.. Correepondeuce of the N. Y. Journal of Commereo Wastiotcyrote,parch 28. You mention, in nu article of Mestas, that the English and American Cor,euls et Havana are acting in concert, in opposition to the project of invasion and revolution. The same concert of ac tion exists between the British and Spanish Minis ters to this government..-as I mentioned to you aome weeks agri. • It will be exceedingly difficult for the adventurers to effect a landing., in consequence of the vigilant attention of thremgovernments to the movement. The Government of Cuba have had spies in our principal citie-, who have kept a watch on every movement, and are, perhaps, even enlisted in the scheme, and participate in the cantinas of the sche mers. The revoluionists have lately issued scrip based on the success of their intended operation, in the ab sence of ready means. It is an evidence of the un - substantial foundation of the project, that the pro jectors hare no money—no resources whatever. When they applied to General ‘Vorth, two years ago. to take command of the invading force and also of the revolutionary movement, he made the ohjec 7 lion, that his precarious position would not enable him to resign his commission in the U. S. service, without a previous settlement upon his family, of the sum of one hundred thousand dollarsN The con spirators could pot 'lase tlu.t Sum, nor any sum. They have stated that . they could get men enough for their project, but could get no money. They could have enlisted the Littited States voltinteer traapi and awl • disb traded officers, after their re turn Alexic.), if they could have got means to sub sist and organize them. tterca k ion Ivaco of the New Irtiric Express. KINGSTON, Lin4iGa, March ITS. Santa Anna, of Mexican notaity, vve 'egret to trate t is about taking hi= dedeparture for Migma.--- His scqualittance , atid society have been much sought after, here, by those oho 'tulip: , in the high est sphere, and all greatly regret his departure, which, is mainly attributubie to the failure of the late attempts at revolution in his native cnittAry.— Ilimself and lady area refined and n 1,4 assemble pair, hint the recent BCC:milts from the City of Mex ico have severed alibis fond hopes of return. Hi s fortune:is princely, and a more honorable and liber al man does not live in the 'skid& What his inten tions ere, no person here is acquainted with, but all regret the departure of him,elf, family, and suite, whose residence here has afllirded an opportunity for all who knew him to sympathize trith the hard fate of the fallen chieftain. Tits GOLD 311N/3 OF Tan 18TIIMOS..••.There is now in Panama a gentleman, a miner, from the ihterior —the diggings of Venires—who showed us a rich specimen of gold grain t teenty-tuh carrels fine.— Ile relates that his company, a party of forty Americans, are extracting from five to six dollen.' worth of this gold per day. This gold beautiful and of rich grain, is unlike the dust, hot nil an average will bo found as as large asa grain of •j:eJ. This fret proves that our miners of the la , lirmis are not experienced with digging n. orations; be cause'the value of the powder or th , s.,:whiett they, dtintit gather, is equal to half of their daily pro duct,' The success in diggitig, so for, is prom ising; but when the explorations become more extended, we expect to hear of more protiiable re searches. One thing is self-evident—living cheap on this part of the Isthmus, the climate is fine and healthy, and es it is nearPariarna, where they can easily hip or dispose of their earnings, we think live or six dollars here, with the low price of living,. is fully equal to ten of fifteen dollars in California,. where everything is. - high and the comity is sterile and unknown. Let the gold adventurers think of these things, and give the.i4thmus a trial before they go further.—F:olosons Echo. OCCUREECICII--.A FATHER KILLED stf Ills Datiairraa.—The Mineral Point Tribune learns that a Mr. iluriburt, near Cottage Inn, La- Fayette county, was killed by his own daughter on Monday last, under the following circumstances.— Me, H. in a fit of intoxication, had driveii Lis n ife front the house and attempted to emnioi t v i„k nee upon his daughter, which she resisted. Ile Alien, with a huge knife in liis hand, threatened her, upon which she retrcoted'and lieu father faoweil. She caught an axe, and swung it before her in self-de fence. lier father rushed forward and came in con tact with :he axe, which struck him on the neck, nearly severing his head froiri his body. A coro ner's jury was called and after examination, con sidered that the act, was perfectly justifiable o n the part of &lir!, it anpearing very clearly a case of self defence.--Dail The statement of the number of letters passing Annually thrii.igh Ilia British pout-office would be in credible, unless verified by official evidence. The return for /849 gives the enormous aggregate of 397,509,00 D, T. R Rine• CaWorlds Report. The Washingtonooireapon.4fitiel theittii-Vor)i arnia of Comma' furnisheffi paper with the following synoptdeof Mr. Koch report On Cantor, Utitt. The taint:Sof which it steam anti The population ot thicnuntryi, ; Its agricultural resourcee: Extent and production . of neral,region i tiegion Thitommerce and navigation of California; The legislation necessary for the let ritory; And, especially, in regard to the disposition of the gold bearing -lands; belonging to the United States. The population of the country is new about one hundred and twenty thousand. An scOe•sion to the, poulatiod by immigration, during the year beginning at the next dry aeason,—on the first of May,—is es timated at two hundred thousand. ,The agricultural capacities of the state are vas4 greater than has been heretofore represented. There is a vast extent of pasture landig, uninwpastied any where in the world, in verdure and richness. The wild nets grow spontaneously all , over the plains, yielding an annual crop at the rate of forty bush els per acre: Any (umber of cattle an I sheep may be raised. ,Two hundred thousand head of cattle and sheep must be brought into the country during the next two years. . . The cattle were formerty killed for their hides, which was the article ofexport, and they were worth but four dollars a head; but now they are worth t wenty to thirty dollars ahead. California is especially adapted to wool growing; a gentleman was about to import ten thousand pheep from Mexico, with a view to go into that business. The fume value of the vine-yards is represented as very great. As to the dnmmerco of the country, he estimates the value of imports needed icr - talifurnia ,from the Atlantic States for the next' year, at four millions of dollars in finer, !ix milliona in lumber, and two millions in other articlee. As to the article , o f Lumber, its price is now '975 per thousand, pt Cannot be lower, because it is be low the cost of !ober necessary for cutting and saw ing lumber in Califurnia. It can be carried to Cal ifornia for e 24 a thousand, and supposing it to cost 920 here, it will continue to pay. The . gold region is. described as extending five or six hundred miles from the Smith to the North, and front forty to sixty miles in width; from the East to West. It rises gradually in an inclined plain, from the Sacramento valley, fh the elevation of 4.000 feet at 'what are called the Foot Hills.: Between these hills and the Sierra Navnde, a number of streams have their source, and take their course through the Foot this, Westwlard. Mr. King examined twelve of these rivers, and found them all very rich in gold. . The territory on the North is very rich in gold; rind the conclusion is inevitable, from all the facts that whole Oar's plain, containing three thousand square miles,' full of golnethied in the quartz by . the torrents, may be found in dust and lOmps in the beds of the streams. The whole number of foreigners in the region, who are gold hunters is fifteen thousand.. There have been but seven thousand American gold hunters. The Chilians and the S e bnora people cattle in crowds, and have carried _off twenty five millions. The Americans have procured fifteen millions. The Chilians are expert diggers. The amount of wild already procured, is forty mil lions. Hut forty m o re will be procured during the coining dry season—say front May till November, The regular mining operations in the solid quartz rock will soon begin; and and can be continued du ring the wet and dryiseason. Mr. King estimates the amount of gold which wilt be procured, from the jet Mar, 1851, till the Ist November, 1852, at one hundred millions! He recommends thot the latids be retained as public property-forever,—.and as a perpetual re source for the public exchequer. . T9rthe workers and diggers of gold, ho proposes to grant permits at a rate of an ounce of gold, for each pound. 1 Fur the encouragement or regular mining opera lion, he proposes to grant leases ore iimoerl number of acres to persons or companies, at a 'small per ' center on the amount ofigeld procured. fearrevornicucc o( the Boston Times.) Fan:4ot, Paris, Jan. 28 Gas. CAss' lIuNGAIINAN SPICKCI/ IN Ennosis.The last steamer brought 113 the debate in the Senate on the resolution of Mr. Casa, to suspend diplomatic relations with Austria, and hia speech...as able as it was just—and a just phillipic it was against that common butcher of mankind, Austria: I was sorry to see that there was opposition to it. I would that it might come forth withoura dissenting voice as the indignant protest of the greatest of Republics against the assassins Of Hungary. Our relations with Austria are nut wofth the keeping, notwith standing what the Ruston Advertiser says; and such being the fact, what Mr. Clay says about courte sies and precedent falls coldly upon us here in:Eu rope. Mr. Cass has placed , it, its true light 'lie question, and the character of the Austrian Govern ment. We, who hare been in the Austrian domin ions in the midst of her butcheries—we, who have seed, as I did af 2 fllilan, young men stabbed by Aus trian officers, only bec - ause they had not ceased to feet that Italy was thci•country—voung giris strip ped and dogged upon the bare skin. because they dared to applaud one& their pwn sex fur refusing to display an Austrian flig from her winJow,--we, who have seen men, shot, rod did on the shores of the Lake of Como, for a simple breach of the law Unit ii7dividuals should not coo eise together in the street—ne, who hero seen hundreds of Tuscans loaded ,tv ith chains—Sardinians sent to tile galleys, for run other .crime than love. of country--;a 0,- who hare witnessed all the degradation, the woes, the w a iting:, of Italy—ae, %Oat, have been subkctecl to unlawful arbitrary arrests and detentions in the pea tilentisl,guard-houses of these cowardly accompli ces of Russia—we, I repeat it, who hove seen these things, and been subjected to these arrests and de• tenuous, amongst at loch number you may include your humble 6ervint, know ,voll how to appreciate what Mr. Cass has said, and to thank him. fur our selves, and in the mole of humanity, for tvhat he has proposed. I translated his speech into latent:it, and rend it to some of the Hungarian Chiefs, who are neighbere, of mine, and happened tobe in my 'room, near the Tulleries; and the Senator fieon Michigan may be assured that nowhere has his speecn had more en thusiustic auditors than the few Chiefs of .fallen Hungary. who were gathered in my saloon, when it reached Paris. Stiocsiso Occonasmcn.— The If Mes senger sayi a "fire, attended with loss of life took place at French Creek on the evening of the 19th inst., by which the family of Mr. JAMRS H. ROUSH was plunged in the deepest distress. Mr. and Mrs: Rom, accompanied by one girl. had left their house to attend a meeting about a mile and a half distant, five children, the eldest under twelve, and the young -04 less than a year old, remaining in the house.— About 8 o'clock the house was discovered to be in flames. The eldest boy, awoke from the heat and smoke, escaped from the house. having one hand severely burnt arid his hair and clothes much singed. The other four little ones perished in the flames. It is supposed that they were all in bed at the time &the terrible disaster, as their remains, con sumed t r cinders, were found where the bed stood. The face of the youngest child -was all that remain• od by which the parents could recognise the beings so dear to them. The entire house and contents were consumed. It is stater by the correspondent to whom we are indebted for the above particulars, that this same family was burnt outcome three months since, un der the same cirennistances, though without so ter rible a result. We hope thiri warning will be suffi cient to caution parents ! against !eating children alone under any circumstances wherethete can be any risk of accidents frogs fire." Tun Cserrot..—The proposed alteration of the capitol at Wasiting,ten, nip add 300 feet to its length. New chambers being contemplated in the additions for the House and Senate; the present Senate cham ber v.tll be nsed by the Supreme Court, and the House of Representatives for the Library. if the alteration can be made without destroying the beauty of the building, no person can - object to it, as the Predcat accommodations for the Supreme Court, and Library are entirely inadequate. NOT 85p...-On the cession of two opposition boats starting frnm Pittsburgh, one employed a German Baud to attract passeegera. The other being mi nus the music, and not desiring to bo outdone, star ted the steam whistle, which drowned the noise of the band. The Mayor being called upon, declined to interfere, saying that one was "a specimen of German music," tad the other "patriot, Amman.' Irm,4rblegrapk*Buffalo. Fro:tithe Dispitebee of*Batlita k Pape». • •"' 1. The trial Prof.Webster#tiDosten lies been brought iti.e'close mid has resulted - Wit verdict Pt:nifty: After the Attorney general had coultided on sattirday; Dr. Webster ewe and made a few remards which rela ted to the acid. stated to have been purchased by him to remove the staiui of blood in his labortitory, but which he says was fur domestic use and was purchased at the request of his wife. He said the council had pressed him to keep calm, and his calmness he Considered had borne against him. In regard to the money hie paid to Dr. P., he had slaved it up from time to time. pa kept it inn intellect-ilk. but unfortunately no one sew him take it out. The reason of, his exploding persons from • his laboratory was in consemienee of his apparatus having been spoiled by the students when they had been admit ted. Every day and hour of the week following the al leged murder his whereabouts could be accounted for.-- Relative to the letters sent Marshal Tukey, ho, denied Elvi n anythlog to do with them. Chief Justice Shaw then delivered hie. charge to the Jury, which was consi dered as leaning too much in favor of tho government.— The Jury was out about two hours, whoa they returned a verdict of guilty, on hearing which the prisoner souk back in his chile with kis hands on the railing and his fitco'im.his hands. When ho recovered from ) the shock, he said to officer Jones, r•why are you ktie'plug ino here to he gazed at?" He was immediately carried to the jail and locked up for the night, the precaution "having been taken to remove his raze, end knife. 'Two of the witnesses for the defence, Mr. Clelland and M i ts. Jones. have retracted their statements previously made. The Governor will probably fix the day for his execution.—• The matter is the general topic conversation here. Die siittisfaction prevails among the greater portion of the community here, who think the Pref. had not a fuir trial- The verdict was an unlocked for oho.. ' !Dtuartukttor or 211C . Junr.:--k is understood that tho Jitry after night at first deliberated in silence for ten minutes. They.then voted on the question whether the remains were those of Dr: Geo. Perkman. There was a unanimous yea. On the second question whether Dr. Webster murdered him, there were eleven yeas and ono nay. The nay came from Mr. Benjamin fi..Greene.— He stated his point of doubt and after some discussion he declared it removed. licanzals &c.—The family of Dr. W. was not inform ed of the verdict the night' it was rendered. Friends howeier undertook the task of ' preparing their minds for ii. The awful disclosures were made to them on Sunday by Mrs. Wm. U. Prescott. The semis was most heart rending, and the wails and shrieks could not be concealed from the passers. Every effort has been made by their friends to assuage the grief of the afflicted wife and daugh ters who up to a late hour confidently expected an ac quits]. A letter of condolence was presented them on Sunday afternoon, signed by all the principal families of Canibrige including Hon. Edward Everett. Jared Spark., Professor Norton, Judge Fay. Ike. This morning the im mense crowd retired froni the Feud room and its vicinity in silence, and without the loam disturbance. A medical atudont named fledges, has announced to a clergymen that he saw Prof. W. Standing over the dead body of Or. P.. but had taken en oath that ho would say nothing about IL Lately in a fit 'of delirium he raved much about the myaterieus murder,, and made an ac knowledgement of what ho had seen. , This minister came to Boston to inform the governMent, but was too lato. The student hos been in Alumna during the trial. WAsursavos. April 1850. lion. John C. Calhoun' died at his residence, Capitol Hill, at 10 minutes past 7 o'clock, on Sunday inornii,,E. The last woras ur Cte.14.... wats- *.i awes* PENT EASILY." None of his family, save one son. was pres ent. Mr. Venable, of N. C., who occupied the next room. was' called, and came in. Mr. Calhoun extended his hand. His eyes were very bright, and ho was perfectly condone, but he did not speak. Mr. Venable found he had no pulse, and poured out halt aglass or Madorfa; When Mr. C. raised his head and drank it. and than fell back upon his pillow. Mr. Orr and Mr. IValleco came in.... When the door closed, Mr. C. turned his eyes in tlintdi motion, and 11'33 porrectly conscious of every thing that passed. Ho squeezed hie sOn'a hand convulsively; his lips moved, and his eves were very expressive. His voice could not be heard, and when some ono leaned over him ne if to listen, ho said, "I cannot' speak." His breathing was very hard until five minutes before hie death. One hand resting upon hie breast, and ho ruined the other and' pliced it once or twice upon t his head.— Probably the last rush of blood pained him. When the breath left the body, it wee like a long drawn breath. It was tho last and all was over. He died us easy as au in fant, and was perfectly conscious until the last spark of life had fled. The bady will be placed in a metallic cof fin and deposited in a vault in the Congressional bur, tug ground, where two of his children are buried, and will remain there until the wiehes of Mre. Calluittn aro known. bt consequence of Mr. CoDiann's death there was no bUsittoSS done in either Houses of Congress. In the Sen ate his death Was announced by his colleagues in profound and solemn silence,and feeling oulogiums were proneunc ed by several Senators. It was stated in the course of icinarks•nintio by the first speaker, that the immediate cause of Mr. C's death was an atTection of the heart;--- Mr. Clay made 'a brief but healittful and feeling speech in which he alluded to tho deceased in such touching tense as to draw tears from many spectators. Mr. Web ster followed and paid a noble and merited tribute to the memory of the deceated and is still speaking es this des patch closes. In the House' the lie:mien was opened ty an eloquent prayer by the Rev. Mr. Gurley, in which he feelingly alluded to the death of Mr. C. Wasmseros, April 2. The official business is entirely Suspended at the Cap itol. The committee of arrangements, the Pall bearers Mressrs, Mangum. Clay, Webster, Cass, King-and Ber rien, and Mourners met at the Into residence of Mr. Cal houn this morning to remove the corps. The galleries of the Senate "Chamber were densely crowded. The members of the House entered followed by the Judges of the Supreme Court. the Presldent q the heads of Depart ,meuts. Ministers of various countries - &c. &c. At a quarter past 12 o'clock the Coffin with the attendants en tered and the members stood up. Mr. Butler read the Episcopal burial Service and the Chaplain from the desk r ead prayers. He is now preaching from 82d Psalm 6th nun 7th verses. "1 have said we aro Gods. but we shall die like men." . In the House the Speaker said in COO fortuity to the resolutions passed yesterday. the officers and members will now proceed to the Senate Chamber and there join in the burial ceremonies. which was agreed to. ' ) • New ,Yestr. April 2-4 P. M. CONNECTICUT Eiecrrear.—The election in Connecticut yesterday, so far as received, resulted \, Inlithe choice of Thos. H. Seymour, democrat, for Governor: 3 democritt ic Senators. and 14 Representative. were also elected.— The is but little doubt that the entire State has gone dem ocratic. Trumbull county gave Seymour 32 majority. Monroe 94, Huntington 25, Easton 16, Weston SD. LATER.—Every' thing has gone for tho Democrats in Connetient. In -the 3d Congressional District all but ono of the Representatives ore Democrats. In Stamford about 40 Democratic Mnjority. Canaan is rumored to be tied. Fairfield 40 majority for Seymour. Three Dein. Senators acid 14 Representatives. Hartford county, 86 Dent, ma, jority: Toiland county Democratic ticket elected. In %Vitamin Two Democratic Senators and a majority of the Representatives chosen. Seymour's majority in Now London is about 500. All the Senators Democratic ll whige and 10 democratic Representatives elected.— In Fairfield county there is gain crone Seuatoiandesv eral Representatives, Democratic. A couple of priests of the Greek church were intro duced to Gan. raylor. and one of them wrote in Arabic characters. on a slip of paper, passages of the Bible. which he presented to the President. •*Old Zaoh sera • Uniting the Arable" would mks s ens vacua*. 7 .- pit . ,- 1,,43r0 . 414 030.00. t. •We are tinder obligation to (ten. Can, sad Hon. /as. Thompson fur Congressional. and Messrs. Walker and •Ettild. for Legislative favors. - - Fire Dtpartment. - Gn M onday last the FiraDepartmentofthis city elect ed the fallowing ofileera for the eneairig year: --President. A. W. Brewsuir; Yico-President.. D. H. Derby: Uwe- Orb I. 8. Robinson; Chhl Engineer. A. P. Durlint Ist. Assistant Engineer. A. Walters: 2d Am:latent Engineer. C. Lynch; Water. Commissioner, G.:A. Donnott. At a meeting of the stockholders of this road. held at the Reed Rouse, on Saturday last. the following gentle men ware elected officers for tho ensutog year:—•Presi deot. Walter Chester; Directors, J. J. C. Spencer. N. W. Russell, Lyinnu Robinson. and Jacob Fritz; Secretary and Treasurer. Giles Sanford. We refer to another part of our paper for the partial: , late, as far as received. of a glorious Deilnocratio victory in Conneticut. The "sober second thought".of her sturdy yeomanry ha repudieted . the Taylor-free-soil whig party, and placi ng in the Gubernatorial Chair that staunch champion of his country and his party, Col. Thos. H. Seymour. Col. Seymour was defeated in the last elec tion; but one year's experience of the blunders of a no party whig administration has bed Its legitimate effect upon en enlightened people, and the results of the late elections'in this State, in New Hampshire and finally in Connecticut are unmistakable expressions of the "sober second thought." One gratifying feature of this result is the fact that the comientiou that nominates Col Sey mour repudiated all "Wilmot" testa, and declared un hesitatingly for the country, and the whole country, while the whigs adhered to the double rime of preaching "Free Soil," and 'Taylariem at one and the same time. The Telegraph on Monday announced the death of this great man. He died ,at Washington on Sunday morning. The death of any man who has been long connected with our national affairs, always creates a pro. found Sensation, but in the case of Mr. Calhoun this is peculiarly so. He had many warm admirers, but more who, while they were forced to condemn his views, did, so with a firm conviction that however erroneous they were in their estimation, he, at least, was sincere in their advocacy. But he has gone now—the grave covets his errors; but his virtues, his wisdom, his patriotism, and his talents. remain after him. ' They vrero great. exalted and far4eaching! Lot us remember them as becomes Americans; and bury all else In the grave with him, as becomes ',Christians. '"? A jaunt into the country. at this season of the year, is one of the most delightful recreations one can engage in. Provided the day is fine—warm and balmy. and the roads in capital order, as on Tuesday last—it eau be enjoyed without the least alloy. The blustering "ides of March," with its icy fingers. and its "nipping and eager air," i tweak Your ears, and tip the eud of yOur nose with an indigo hue, no longer. On the contrary, all animated nature--the peeping buds, the tender grass. just starting through the decayed relics of the year that has passed— the locoing herds, the cheerful bark of the faidifot deg. as Win as the merry chirp of the robbin, and the glad music of the farmlard—all proclaim that a more cheerful season Is upon us. with us. and around us. A jaunt to the country! What sweet visions of tall old trees, moss covered and hoary with age; of shadowy glades: dusky della, and quiet nooks of greenery, where sun shine and shade play merrily together, while the soft and ,gentle wind stir the green boughs over Need. and sing nature's own lullaby in happy concert with the glad song of the blue-bird, and its kindred • so»gaters..— Those ruff old trees, they were the pleasant resort of our truautschool boy data, and biIICO we have reached man's estate—orrallicr manhood with no estate at all—and a contact with the world's uncongenial roughness, has ob literated much of youth's happy poetry, it Ts still ,pleas ant to leave ones business to take care of itself. and ram ble amid the "dim old forests" salubrious shade., or lie beneath the friendly outstretched arms of its venerable trees, quaffing deep draughts of its fresh wont-need air; and listening in dreamy mood to the ham of the wild bee, the rustling* of the leaves. and the lazy murmur or some silver brook, till carking Care vanishes like the titiets of morning, and pleasant thoughts, like happy birds, puma clustering round our heart, and make merry music there. To the artisan, wearied by week tiny toil: to Ma poor clerk "chained to the desk's dull wood;." to the Merchant, worn by the cares of trade; to the lawYer, jaded by the dull drudgery of the office, a jaunt to the country, and a rumble in the woods, is the best of medicine for "blue devils," or corroding care. We bid them, then, one and all, to seek often its pleasant shades; to purify and give a healthful tone to their minds, by sweet intercourse with nature, and to renew the strength of their body, wasted by the fever of city life. Dosim April 1 WhstitNorolr. April 1 E P A: SATURDAY AIORIIINCI, APRIL I, :.~i a :}~ a Erie andWettabtirg -Mani Boa Glorious Result in Couneeticrat Death of Mr. Calhoun. .A Jaunt to the Country. Good, Decidedly. After this, no ono need have any difficulty in placing the Democrats of our State in their true position on the Slavery question. Led en by snub time-serving and truck ling politicians as James Buchanan. they will not and cannot assume a bold and noble stand in 'favor of the principle? of Human Freedom;—rather will they in ef fect, ally themselves with the Slavery propagandists of the South.—Gazette. we can .1.., a...madly good from a paper that took down Zachary Taylor. his three.hundred negroes. and Cuba blood-hounds. all at one swallow I T.lk about "tima-serving and truckling politicians." sounds boauti fill from each a source: Besides, what is the position. of Daniel Webster. and,flenry Clay, and Millard Fillmore, and Zachary Taylor. upon this question. Is it different from that of Jaino3 Buchanan, or any other Democrat 1 Far from it. On the contrary, every one of them has mounted on the very platform—Non-Intervention—upon which the DemoCracy stood in regard to the slave ques tion in 1848. Under such circumstances "the lonst said" by tho Gazet'e, the •soonest mended." wo should think. "The North Pennsylvanian." We ha T o received the first number of this new Demo: crude paper. just started at Towanda. Bradford county. by WIlf,N Fortrisv.. Esq.. lute of Philadelphia. It is issued i t , quarto form, and presents a vary neat appearance.— The articles are written with spirit and ability; and the tone of the paperis thoroughly and radically republican. We wish it abundant success. Court of Inquiry. We learn that the Secretary of the Navy has ordered a eoUrt of inquiry to be held at Annapolis. Maryland, on the 15th inst. to investigate the circumstances attending the capture of the town of Alvarado. in Mexico, by Lieut. Charles G. Hunter. during the war with that republic.— The court anal be composed of Cotnmodores Morrie and Shubrick and Commander Dupont. Lieut Blacker. at tached to the Michigan,-lying at this port, has, as we letrn.igone on to attend as a witness. One good Act, at Least. One of the best acts of our Legislature, this eession, is the defoqt of tho bill divorcing Mr. Edwin Forrest from his wife. We don't say Mr. Forrest should not havo a divorce, neither do we *Hedge thnt ho has not sufficient cause to apply for ono—but we do say that being a . citi' aen of New York. lie lied no right to apply to our Log. islaturo_for ft. The tourta ore . the prciPer tribirnale to decide' aubh mittens. Let him get it there. or,iaot at ail. Oraham's Magazine WO see that this popotar mooihly has pissed into the hands °flits old proprietor. Gs°. It, Gfiatsaw. Esq. We hope Mr. G. 1111 renew the eitchange with ne, which vans so unceremoniously cut off by the late proprietor, Voir 'Vas Sines' llcabrefes," . , W. have arrays_knowit mat mite were * certain dug of politiellagin thle count+ who . krolt spun the Trttele try of Unelei_l3an3 the great publie goosearith whoa. plumage they hag. a perfe4 right to "feather their nests" go every convenient occasion, but who, thanks to the people haVeneverbeen entrusted with the menrgentent of Oar public affairs fei any grolt length of time. With them; public office has been an oti ect only so far es it enabled them, to "pluck the feathep " the more read il y. The legitimate "pickings" of °lnce, when. by hook or by crook they attain to such petitions. does trot appear to satisfy them. Although before an eh:se:ion they are the greatest sticklers for economy in expenditures. and are ever ready to denounce with seeming virtuous indigna tion. all "extra allowances,'l whether legal or otherwise. no sooner do we find them successful, than all inch "be fore-electron virtue" is eonsigued to the tomb of the am ulets, sad thev are found tog times as greedy es the old -swarm.' A notable. and withill.auccessful instance of this propensity to "pluck the public goose." has just come to light at Washington, the soc e essful "picker" of winch is no less n personage than the: present Stieretary of War. Hon. George W. Crawford. The history of this matter, and it is a beautiful illustration of how Uncle Sam's mo t ney goes under this reform administration. is detailed by the New York Sun in this 'glee: "In 1773, an old Scotch trader among the Creek !odious, in Georgia, prosecuted a claim, impounds, shillings, and pence against the Eng lish government, amounting in our currency to $48.000. The breaking out of, the revolution prevented him from recovering the money. When the fist Congress under our constitution assembled, irq or his representatives were on hand, urging the claim open the United States Treas ury. It was resisted until a lite petted in the lifetime Of rho late administration. when much. diging procured a passage o f . an act for Its payment. The parties to whom it was miming received from the treasury the amount of the Iprincipala—Mr. Walker and the Comptroller of the Treasury, Mr. McCullough. Fieremptorily refusing to pay the interest, (as not authorized by the law.) for which Mr. George W, Crawford, the chief of the agent., who successfully prosecuted it before Congre4„ contended. Hu is now Secretary of War. and a few days ago is un derstood to have procured (seine one else being the os tensible agent) from Mr. Secretary Metedith an order for the payment of the 'morell o amounting to the snug little sum of one hundred and ninety. thousad dollars! ! l The money has actually been paid. Mr. Whittlesry, the Comptroller, so famous for his integrity and firmness, refused as peremptorily as his predecessor to make the ppyment, as under a decision of his own: that is he signed I it under a protest that: he did scr under the 'orders of the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the history of this plucking of the. fat goose, as it Is being rehearsed all over Washington just now. .Mr. Crawford's part of the pro ceeds is supposed to range somewhere between fifty and one hundred thousand, after pocketing which, he can afford to give tiir the salary of Pie Secretary of War, for the balance of—Gen. Taylor's term. The election of Gen. Taylor Was indeed a fortunate eircumstoncs for Mr. George W. Crawford." This Is the way the money ,of the United States—your money taken from- you, by means of impost-duties upon articles of comsumptiou, is squandered upon political favorites lk set t a l i tis Administra tionan Admipietration pledger IC rot chment and re form. but which, es in the case nf other pledges given to the country, it is now shamefully violating. 0:7 The Fredonia Censer "caves in," but asserts that it obtained its information in relation to our harbor "from reliable authority." Its . "authoirity" may he "reliable" in New York, bat in Peonsylvniiirt the retailer of false information is'not considered. "reliable." Our cofempo rary, to excuse himself, however, sap' he "merely wished to inculcate lbw prioo:phr that 'atiusi why the in glass houses, should not throw stones.' "' This is all very Well: and the Censor is undoubtedly a very capable teacher.— bur, (and there is much in a bao will it toll us who it was that threw the first brick-ball; We know well enough who threw the second! and a "right smart" jingling it made with our cotetnporary's window-sash! If we re- Collect correctly, the attack of thri• Censor and its corres= pendent' was unprovoked. uncalled for, and quite unne cessary. 'Besides, it should recollect that misrepresen. tatiou can easily transform the Most solid edifice into and thus enable any counterfeit "David" to load his "sling." The, Home Deportment. We perceive that our whig exchanges have become pretty well convinced that this new Department of the Government is destined to bo 6bl:in-lived, and the gen tleman at its head ordered to take the back track for Ohio, unless the "Second Washington" should take pity. and give him a foreign appointrileot. Scarcely one of the papers in the interest of the :present aynasty that comes under our notice; butwhat'l is dolefully dolorous over the proposition to repeal the ?aw creating this De. partment. Mr. Ewing. its head, h.ts all at one e become a martyr, whose political annihilat i on it is the sole end and aim of the ..rascally loam" I to accomplish. Poor Tom, we pity him, for walk the plpnk wo aro also con vinced he niust—but the *railings; of his followers are certainly the moat melancholy ebolption of political mour ning we think we ever heard. wit have read in nursery rhyme of the crying family—we have seen some tall at tempts upon the stage to produce tears by the measure— but the doleful sounds that now cc+o up from the very bowels of the tvhig press,give premonatory warning that, when Congress shall take hold of this matter in earnest. their flood-gates of "wrath and cabbage" will be opened and a political inundation follow. But banter aside, our wing friend* have need to fear for the permanency of their favorite Department. Had it been consigned to differ ent hands by the President—morehottest ones we -mean —and conducted for the welfare ofi the country, and not made an instrument to subserve political ends, it might have been submitted to. Indeed, •rie are not sure but it might in time have proved beneficial. But such was not the fate ordained for it. Under its present menegement it is but an instument in the hands eras desperate a pal meat somaateor, ...the country has' produced. He uses it to "punish his enemies"—to "reward his friends"— and although the Administration came into power pledg ed to "proscribe proscription." the head of the "Homo Department" glories in such a cou+a! Under such cir cumstances to suppose that the Democracy willsubmit to the continuance of such an outrage, is, to suppose them destitute of self respect, as well as forgetful of their duty as servants of the people. Tit for Tat, Hon. John P. Hale, the Free Soil Abolition Senator from New Hampshire, took occasion the other day in his place in the Senate, to take old Father Ritchie, of tho Union, to task for his praise of altar! Webster's speech. In reply the Union assur es the Bowler from New Hem shire, that if he - should ever happen to do anything re markable, or worthy of praise, the Union wilt not hes• native praise even John P. Halo himself. Wheeling Post Mastar. We noticed some time since the fact that the new Taylor postmaster at Wheeling, Va.. Jas. E. Wharton, was suspected of being altogether another individard— that is, he was not Jas. E. IVharion,l "at all, at 'all."— We now learn from the Washington Union that the nomination ofJanies E. Wharton. atlas Jonathan Whit comb, for the office t.f postmaster at ; Wheeling, Ira. has been withdrawn by the President, and Jacob B. Shrivel nominated in his place, who was confirmed. It is whisp ered that some very remarkable developments will soon take place respecting the Wheeling post office. We un derstand that Wharton, alias Whilolllb. wall one of Fitz Henry Warren's proteges. and, ske the illustrious Fits Henry himself:canto from Masoachusetta. Both True. ,It so seldom one sees the Taylor Free Sail papers united in telling the truth, that it Is really worth noticing. The following from the New York Arra,. and &ening Post. is true. every word of it; r ' Tut Whig party in this city Is getting to have as many stripes's" a zebra. I t ikiithe schismatics of old. one is for Patil. and anath er' for somebody-else. There are Clay Whigs, Taylor 'Whip. Webs* Whigs. Sewaid Whip. and ail sorts of Whip.—Per. Y, Mirror. ;Except Wilmot Proviso Whip, who used to be plenty. but are somewhat scarce.—ufEve. Pot. "The gestbiti saToniowuDoor;l6,h a , The followtag oosocloto. which we copy Na l % t it Pertartkratioa, forcibly brings Is mind the abover at that eatentrlo geotta.ittha Randolph , to a lad y iti,;" eit. hailed bias to contribute towards sending ek4l4„. Heather': I ay Wasutscaos's Fastarst.t. ADDRI 3 a.-ISti n„ estasan.—Wasbiogtoa presented the original tn,„„I• copy of his Farewell address to Mr. Clayp ec d,, t l e delphia; in whose paper—The Daly rldreiti sa .4: l 4. Ent published. The administrators of M. recently advertised and sold this conanacnpi.itT7,. auction. The nominal .purchaser. was th e ft e r . 1 .4 Boardtnan; bat it watt lid by him, for Mr. .1, 4 , 4 R 1 d 1. nos. of New York city—at two thousand th ree le udtti ollars. Mr. Lennox is a son—we believe the nett late Robert Lennox; well known in the toini littial Isles of New York. as wasbis tats brother, Walte r , i t , L *. of Philadelphia. We remember an attecdote etMr. Lawlor, which is illustrative of hia character, l end that a liberal expenditure of the large income kft hie father. is no new thing with hint. A fee "'ears.-; the American board of foreign minions minion in China4rappeallog to the friends or Chr ity for aid. One tifternoon.`agentleman lace of the society. and very quietly laid doe m ;„,,: of the State Sunk . New York. for one thousnte,,,-! 1 , each! When the astonished Secretary huitured name iS{ princely donation was to be recorded, 0 5 , 4 'nodosity colt. to pot it down to "a friend to tlit. ta e That friend was ;:tnes Le° ll °l. Nor " th 4 paid some fifteen hundroe dollars per annum, for kreK years afterwards. Thin is the late purchaser of ingtoota manuscript address. Far be it from us to deprecate the self.deoyiegu a l, - cos of our foreign missionaries. or attempt to tliso i k the benevolence of those who contribute their mite, k..,,, as princely as that of the wealthy Mr. Lennox, o'rum., as that of some poor widow, to send the Gospel 'mutt the heathen of India. the islands of the Pacific, o l t Qum. but had there been some ezeeutric Randolph by l to has wispered in this. Mr. Lennox's ear that there were ..c,hi . nese" at his own door. its his own city. is his own 'tree , , whose condition. morally and phyalcally, his active lx , nevolence.aided bysuch princely donation,. might , rt i, 3l ameliorate and imprevA, bow much more of cr ime au degradation he naight.:perhape, have prevented. `Can! some good Samaritan have taken him by the hand, ant led him to the abodes of virtuous poverty, among tip est• woman and semstreses, who eak out a miserable subs;. tence by unceasing toil. we think he would have Ifaati "Chinese" equally as worthy of his benevolence as say the missionaries ever taught the to us beauties, bat to thus mysteries. of our religious belief. ''Teu thousand l flollan and one thousand five hundred 4 year. for wend y,an!" I How many of "God's fairest mud best gift to man" i essli this sum, judiciously applied among the needy and des. titute needle-women have rescued from sin and dery dation in a city like New York! How many of the aid. owed and the fatherless would it have caused in r t • juice,—how much of suffering alleviated. and ,how tzincS oh. how much, of vice prevented. How rim s , 4, iii i, a stone', throw of the very spot where this mane)lvros ' counted dawn to aid in christianizing the Chinese, 'viers groveling in a worse than Chinese darkness to whom s kiiid word is never spoken, or for whose amehoration there is never a generous thought,much l e a s te n 0 )04 ; 3 , 4 dollars, donated! The cross of the misaionary is oholy one. We would not detract from it one iota of its ofty charactni—but that "charity begins at home" we believe to bo as true an axiom, as that the fact is capable of de monstration that there is a wide field of missionary labor in bringing back the thousands of those of our fair c l one. ft:a:women who have fell into the paths of vice and sin through the insufficiency of female wages in our cities, and id rescuing those who are ready to fall, through the same cause. We saw a statement of the wages i is• ceived by the semstresses of New York not long slort, and it' was enough to make the blood recoil back t, the heart to think that there were thousands compelled . to drag nut a miserable existence upon such an insuffirant pittance, or become outcasts from the pale of virtual sod respectability. And yet we never h'ear of any " . ten ttioo• sand dollar" donations, to be heralded in notepaper*, fir the relief of such as these! Never! The "heathen ate at our out n door." but we see them not!—it is 't fasiact• de: , ,Federalism and the Nashville Converttioni it is worthy of remark, says an exchange.that the Nauoad Intelligencer, in a long article condemnatory. of Olt 'pro posed convention at Nashville, deems it first neceltarr to go into a historical defence of the convention at Hart. ford! Wo think it would be better logic to admit t that the assembly at Hartford deserved the , judgment ith which it has been visited by the 'people. and to hold that punishment as the probable reward which - the p .ent and the future will bestow upon the members of it assembly at Nashville. Tho principal difference at pc ; tint perceptible between the two; bodies is that one Holden while we were at war with the kingdom ea( Britain. and the other is' called while we are at "pet with all the world and preserving amicable relations w the rest of mankind. : An Item for the Ladies. We refer our lady readers—and we know we ha many such—to the Advertisement of Mrs. Curtis, a t cinnamic an early arrival of New Bonnets. These we days are taking all the beauty away from the comfu bte. and in cold weather. very appropriate winter ha , and rendering a resort to the delicate and always to admired Straw, very necessary. (body's Lady's Book Sye have the April number of this favorite monthly Oa our table. The embellishments are very good, though We must confess that the young gentleman in the 'plats, "Sing me that Sweet song Again," looks too much hke &dying calf to suit our taste. Gody would undoubtedly improve the Book materally br exploding all such Taa -1 adasical affairs. "Smiles and Tears" is really a rep. good plate, and the Fashions a decided improvement ¶1 some of their "illustrious predecessors." The literary matter, of course. is good. The price is still $3-.two copies for ss—though are yet furnish the Book and the• Observer one year for $3 in advance. Take it Back. We aro by some of our exchanges that Miss Chariot Cushman. who has been performing at the St. Charles Theatre in New Odeon'. peremptorily refused to phi) , on Sunday evenings. It appears that Sunday evenior is the best business night in the weak in that city. Bu notwithstanding that, "Miss Charlotte" . carried With her that deference for the Sabbath day which a nn 'pecuniary advantages could induce her to relinquish.. We admii l e her for (bisect et independence. and the repudiation of the onisaying. that "when you are in RoMe. yon meat do es the Romans do." By the by, will noisome of those who think there can nothing good come out of Nazareth take back coins of their ananthemaa , against actors, &flail such an exhibition of respect for their religious feeling by so distinguished follower of the stage. How Defaulters are Made. Hera is a case which the Editor of the Albany Argue says is-within his own knowledge. The present govertt ment et Washington seems to think it necessary to pub= Usti a defalcation occasionally. whether ono - exists or notl f , ao that it may fitrnish a sort of semblance or justificatiott for its violated promisesin proscribing Democratic offs - l i cars: The Argus says:—"An instance comes within our, knowledge, in which a Postmaster, on closing his ac-1 counts on the eve of change. was informed that the balance standing against hint was nearly $20,000. Ex act, careful and prompt, ho was surprised at the intima tion; but. knowing it to be a mistake. he repaired at once to the seat of, Government. There. the accounts of several of the bureaus proved a balance against him of the sum named. Pursuing the examination. however. ho at length discovered that n payment made by him of $lO.OOO had been charged against him: This discovery at uhce disposed of the matter; but had he died without 'giving it a personal examinatieu, he would have been - branded as a defaulter, and his family and sureties com- pelted td 'pay the money." A Clever Miter. &allot,. the Editor of the ••American Volunteer," has boo elected e number of the Towel Council for the 'Borough of Curtislel: He must bo %decided clever fel low to consent to itervi in•nteh s copeeity.
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