'[_~- = • brat of*. llostiaster asses_ I We regret exceedingly that the limited spa of oar colums, compel uts to omit the fall report o he Postmaster General. aid tot:Outfit,' ourselves ith giving a condensed view of it, publishing only , he principal mut most important parts. The Poktinster General buttes that, upon the 30th ofJuno lust, there were 5,593 rautes'bv which the Mall is caeried. The lacrosse a hich has taken place this - yearen the number of these routes arputints to 649. The ageregate lergth of these 5,599 routes last June was 178.673 miles; and upon these retites were engaged 4,760 contractors. The annual Cost of transporting the mails over these routes viatt l 92,- 724,4103, making an average cost of,-6ve cent pod eight and a half mills per mile. The increase of the length of these Mail rtiutes has been nearly 11,- 000 miles. 0., the 20th of June there wire ,fii.e foreign Mail routes, the annual cost of tranaporta lion over which. has increased over the coil of the prevetling year, 94,814. There had been 6,518 post asters appointed during the year ending upoio the - last dev of the mooch of J toe. Tne whole number or Post Offices in the cOuntry.was, 18,447. There have been established 1,979 new post office• end there-have been 309 discontinued through the year. The gross revenue of the 11.partmont for the year ending June '2O, 1850, we:193,552,971 43. The expenditures for the year amounted to 95,219,- 953 48, which leaves 9310,018 05 remaining. The eipendieuMs of the, present year are estimated to amount to 95,619,809 80, and to 'meet this; the lb partmect relies updp the receipt of peetages,;the annual appropriatiOn‘of 9200,000, an] upon the ;tp proprieties) made at the last session of Congress, as mcompensation for the matter sent free throegh!the ails under the act fortakirig the Seventh CenSua. It is estimated that there will be 1146,803 35 re maining over and above the debt for flub cerilent „ year. - • - The mail service in California and Oregoh is in so unsettled a condition, that no satiefsetory state ment can be made with regard to it.. The report recommends - the followiug modiSeatiou -of the Most Office law: • 1. That the contract and fiscal year for the Post Office Department rip respect to the service in Cali fornia, Oregon, New Mexico and Utah, be changed, and that it commence and end three Mon th s earlier than for the rest Of the Union; so tkat the retigris, athousts ant all other statements for•the laatquar ter of the fiscal year inthat portion of the Uisiou,rcAri tremade to the General Post Office in Washington its time, after beingiduly audited, to be embraced in the annual reports submitted at the opening of Congress. 2, That authority be given to the speeial agent Itt that country to open, at Sin Francis.- ~ the dead letters 'returned frpm the 'o ffi ces of California and Oregon, and there dispose of them as ,it now done it the General Post iJilice, -under, such regulatious end restrictions os the Postmaster General may prescribe. For this purpose a clerk or clerks, With suitehle salariee, should. be allowed_ to the special sigma's." , .itith regard to the reduction of [Mier Pastege, the Puettniteter General iercurnmends that throb, cents be the fixed blind rate, when prepaid, :and' when not prepaid: that fits cents .be the uniform vete. He-,tiro recommend. the reduction , a Mtt postage on California [Cwt . 's, and that the ratef on tb* foreign mails be made uniform, and t h at telwer to given the Postmaster General to reduce or elide Av. the see letter portage: 14,4150 recommend that the provision veltichlini• pies ap additional hell cent postage upon . miws papers tent mu %tan one hundred miles, snit out of Like State where they are mailed, be repealed, so' as to leave the uniform Inhofd postage on newspa pers, sent to subscribers (rum the office of publica tion, at one cent each.", He also recommends that pamphlet-postage be reduced to twul.ents When' weighing tWo•ounee or .less. /‘ ad one fent for every additionaeource beer two. Hd recommends that If this redtictioi of postage be autholled by Congress, it should mit go into effect until the 30 tb of next June, the tiserkl year then ,commencing: In -consequence of, the increased labor the Postmasters will haveito tinder go arid their decreased copenstition, he reclom mends an increase in their offimissiongl. Ha -also i, recut:rends that the Lick and keys which have been n use for set era), yeats, be exchanged fm,new ones;- and that the Ptistoffoe at Washington be re paired and improved, as ,drsis now not suited to an pffice of N euch importance, sir the Post OfE,,-.Nr,ofihe city of Washingten. - Also that the laws rept!' IT the Dspar,tmentp and its officies, be t .revisei a . m.( im proved. •Ha eays: . I ' in conclusien, I desire to ackrio.ALAge my obli gations to my assistants and clerks in the 11...part ment, fur the clreerfulnees,..zeal -aril ;134:laity kridi which they !Jaye debt.tred in the clichare,e of their respective dutiee, and to renew the rec.•iinrt it —iditiiin of my - prelecerenre, that the A AiPilt ai Ili P.,iomisdter- Generad he placed o r igin the =q ma fo:itiog, pi rt. pes:t to theirlompensatiosi, as the heals of hurcauein t!::: other departments. l I' 1 The Growth of The ceases return... !street Y receixet: from ioS•en • teen soles of the Union, show an increase of pop ulation since 1340, of 3,130.493, wlliliii ailed ti the aggregate population tan years ago, 14 17,039.323, would si:one; make now,/21,224 251. &ululating the increase in other states by the same ratio, the ag gregate population of the nation in June last, may• be pat down at not leas than 24,000,000, or an iu r crease of nearly seven millioni in the last ten years. , Id some of the States - I.iricr rase has been very rapid, in others quite inconsiderable.' In Mine they have 612,000;, being an increase, in tea year., of 110.207, or over 20 per tent: Ilasauchutietto has 1,000,000, being an increase of 220.172,a150 upwards 20 per cent., Pennsylvania h” 2,300.'Pt:0, showing an increase 'of ' 57.71,907, or ovir 34 per cent. Ohio has 2.230,000, showing en increase of 670,732, or ovr forty p:er cent. Wisconsin has 330,000: she had but 30.000 ten years ago. , • The District of Columbia. on the other hand,',has gained but 7,000. She has new 50,000, ar t less than 12 per cent: increase: North Carol:nal his 800,000, being an increase of 43,381, or only, aboin iix per cent. South Carolina has only 633,099, being an ii,erease of only 44,00 1 —less than:Sper cent. ' We have returns fronacthly one other south ern State, that i Georgia. the populution of which is now 1,000,00 0, showing in increase of 3)9,6113, or'about forty-fivelmer cent. - . The ratio of increase in the wh•de Union, estima ted froartite return's received o 4 seventeen states ii MIMIO per cent. That of Georgia is 15 per dent. 0 ahead,o f the average; brat of South Carolina is twe two, and North Caro ins twenty dour per 'cent: blow the average. I the northern states heard from, the ratep f inceaseei uuiforwlyover twenty per cent.—.V.". Ere. Pea Esimainci 77- 14.—Mie whole Mille of emigrants frond foreign countries, a 41 at "ew York, in November, wait-17,947 f 1 11. 7 2 wereotti Ireland, 3,208 from Wit d 2.03 Crop n:,• land. During the earn moot last, ear, the ;eini grstielf -was 8,298. For the 11' m n:he .01' this Year, it amounted to 205,961, which i about 0000 fewer than it was for the same of 184 . "As :eev eral emigrant vessels are Itnown to be on tliel,Ovav hither, Xeays the New-York Journal.) it is- ht.lleved that tlic'emigratiou tbi year will be übmittieeitme, as last. The proportion of Irish will be rather larger, but of much better clasa, Lim. year, late numbers le sliipped.to tha United - S t ates V.their 7 1 landlords.. his year , the better class of d peissiniry of tlui r ieciwn ccord, seek to better their ! cocidltion by remeeir idler. U. Foreign News B/ The Arctic. , The Coltios.Steamer arrived at :dew-Yuri fr!orn l o kerpool on Wcinesdav evening. bringing ' I.4ser foci dates of the Lpth, She brought ¢1 paiaengers, .._ among - isle Minister to poi.. tugs!, I Arctic was over, 14 , days cm ,gs but four daryilater tows. The the of ot the Aoti-P 1 every Jolt .in Marty of the'pro rincial towns. Lofd -Charles Russel, brothel ef the Premier, Was mot eextravigant in hisde m 16100130 of what he terms the -Papal aggression "at *meet ing et Bedford. Qo the day the steamer s Bed, Liver { pool was placarded with bills calling upon the cath olic' to oppose the Protestani Demoostration, to be held there thht day, and a serious i gtot was attli4iPl - ` l l 4 "_ . A Government Commission by bees appointed t.) report upon the doeirablenen of rimcning the tabs-Atlantic mall • tion from Liverpool, to imam point on the Western Coe4t of Ireland. The Amer.\ii,no} ican and Liverpool Chambe of, Cometece °Mite the pnaject. A magnificient all steamship, named the "Scotie,", is being built. in t Clyde, to run be tvreentiverpool and New York. ' Government hive tietehtly dispaclied six men-of-w4e N to the coast of kfra'zil for the supprresion of the Slave tender malting theirlorc-e there 11 then-of.war. .The building for the exibition of 181 prove 'to have been calcultifed'on eltn;ether too small& sca,ll% and the erection of a new gallery haspeen authori zed, by u hich an additional exhibiting Snrface of 45.- 000 feet ha' bean obtained, and even this will nut - Ibe sufficient. France Is engaged indiactisaing • reentt order of Inc President, calling uodar arms 40,000 isd.tils. The leading journals, many of theta, Otink the mu ,e -meat it contradiction ul the lineage. Prime Cc couritiattriliote this increase of the army to a re•- olutidnary disposition on the part of Switzerland.-- The.editor of Li l'rene, has been sentenced to ring ytiar's imprisonment, and a fine of 2,000 francs, fur publishing a ficticiims • President's Message. The President's Ales-age is thought to have given a death blow to the revolutionists. A . terrible evplosion occurred . on the 8:h ult. inn board the ?tench tman-of-war V°lmy, on tier passage from Torbay to Brett. The exploaiott wait froth powder, kept in a place entirely.out of t ee roles of tha service', fn. tho manufacture of roclos as niget si:znalat 20 sailors were dragged froprthe ruins, 10 of whom died immediately, and the remaining 10 it is supposed cannot ri.cover. .1. The advrces .frJat GennitnY Are mire pacific. Prussia has ,ecceelled to the demands f Austria, and has evacuated the whole of Electora l lesse4 :- cep' the-military road., to which she halt a rrg , always. The Franklin Met is to be alluvred to :ct as the organ of the old C mfelerattothanfithe troops of the old Confe fermi in are to "pacify" +si t e Cla ir! and Schleswig tlols2ein. The Pritsian• army and people are much di!datified with the result--; The Federal , troops have afready entered Ca el, although they have tak .11 it .action. There is no p ing from ,the Danish Holstein war, but an acco nt of an insignificant kktrinish, and the fact that he totb forces are fortifying their respective position . Count Missal has arrived in Spain from Cuba It is gratifying to learn from Turkey that the p m isca made to the Christiana in Bulgaria, of petit c- Lion and toleration, have 'bean filltillei to the lett .}.. Toe commercial news'frum China is satisfactos . has again manifested insubordination, and, the "surgenta ire repref-ented to have gut the advent of the Imperial tronpA. From Texas. 11/ the arrival oftlaysteatnehip Galveston, Ca Place, n . e have rectived capers from Galveston the 211. i inst. It .thros of the erection on the bo dary hill still cut.tiou6 to come in. They are al favor of the bill. •-• The body of a man named Hermann Reolre, discovered by the driver of Winnie'ri stage on ttOth inst., at the Whit end of Galveston Isla about three quactersaf a mile from the poirrt, en bay shore, end eh inquest was held on the ea when the pry came to the toncliseitiu that death cmised by a blow Irma some heavy'', instrument The ,wound was in this centre of .thip back, butw the neck ;in} the shoulders. . ' 1 / The de ca - sed was a •seaman. on bokrd the Se Native, lying at Gaivesthu. A few Idepi a go, ale was lying in the!bay of Sin Lois, near /xi, the mord.eted body was found, the master, P Rogers, the aiste,•Thoivipsun, and the deceased w ashore in a boat, Irk the former two returning wi out the latter.. Ttk cook of the Native, who previously heard thrbvening language used by master or mive towaralp Renke, suspected foul pl and on the strivel of this vessel at Galveston m eifitittidavit of the facts as far as he knew, but •th wet; no positive eiidelics that a Murder bad commituid, and Ragere was discharged. A w rant hasfines. been issued for him, and Thump is 110 w irt.custody of the /hewn traite State& if English news ire a ',and the continnanee Pipe • firenaions..... stir.bell in 'Rapist 'rho refractory pr.•%ioce, oo the Kohet Frou 'Copt. Henry E. I,Zileeltloch left Seguin a ! days ago,witli his company of Texas Rangers lie w ill be stationed sotnewhere on th Noeces ri The San Antonio Ledger is informed, by pri g t intelligence from Eagle..iimie, of a horrible tisteg which has recently occored beyond Santa Rpsa, I Alexic.t. Four men kit Eagle pass, a fewl we: since, fur Cattiornia, having iu coutrany w ieb if! two free mulatto *Dmitri. Beyond Santa Rosa tk of the men co:n.tosing the piny wore found deir, their csmp--lwo had been shut' and the .thira' hoeh htlicti by 'a knife, The fourth intlividuAl, the women and chaldren were missing. Thytrun sad been broken open an I rifled of their contents neludmF ani:oug other thing., the suna "of ni thousand (1.31,ar5. Toe wagons, Etc.. *ire left the encampmmt.—X. 0. Pie., Xiort_ Fyi t i i • Arrival of the Geer • The,Emplre C,ty wt-s to sail fro Chagres day after the G.:owls, fall of pas agent and I pieseogers by-the Georgia,say, with between th l 8111 four mihion of gold. TheOorogia bring. (it 3.59 pas,entreri, :Lit) were left at Havanna to go the Ohio. 'The Ge;.rgio left chaireir, on the 2 ult. Sae brings about 61,00,030 in the hands passangeri, and $lOlOOO in freight. - Panama and. Chaves wete healthy. Rain fell time the p tor,* was,st Chagres,, arid the ro were bad. All q net at Havanna. Sever,al Leib vessels hate left Ssu. Francisco for Vitae. F. vessels were ashore at Chagres two brigs and t schooners. The news from California is - tan *MO let .r, much consternation prevails at San Francisci in consequence of Cholera. The schooner G. H. Mtin laque, the Captain of the schooner and four pas sengers are, now sick on board, the vessel had been ordered into quarantine. its most of t.huse *in) died *ere from the cuiues. Tlie vessel wag bound A I to Panama. The steamer Sagamore white leavi t ng bent wbitrf with a large Lumber of passengers begild Stiickton, burst bet boilers with a terrible explosi. scattering human bodies and timber in every dir tiun, and the vessel reduced to a complete-wreck,' The number on board was 75 to 100, hallo(' will are in:sting. Some have been recovered sb mm ated as not to be known, limbs and fragments w gathered up in basket% The wounded are . bei. caked for in the 11, , epitst. , The meeting so ti.,rir of the admission of Ca for'nis took ph.ce at Snn Francisco in which all, t St t i t e and Gtvernme it benevolent aocieth fu Igo cttizme, &c., took part. It is describ a hp ing been a splendid affair. , 'illy -eight deaths from cholera occurred at ,0 ra eta° during the wee k en ling Oct. 26th. _. fhe overland emigraq ‘ 3 are all reported to Ile i . News from the mines fa rable. The Cholera a bad at Sacramorito City. The Georgia left Hata - nu on the 2J, at whiehlinie the Ohio had not arrii- .1. The pacific was there with fifty passeogers for Ch - gres. Eyery thing quiet on the Island, and t e Atinericans were permuted to gr, on shore at lia vaba. The American ateaibers were also allowed to b moored 'at their ducks. The Carolina mail steamer was to leave theatame day. , ' rATs : LINE ItAllAnAll.--4Ve understand and that thi st. , cli:totders and others interege I in, the sever slßtitlrdids between Albany and Buffslb, was h4ld at Syracutre yester.ley, at wh:ch the aublcriptiOn o the cock of the State Line Road. from lituffalo.lto Erie, was all taken and the books closed. -Su h was the demand for this stuck that there was spin t ted competition, and it reseto five per centloathe l ately after theit4oks were - closed. There it ne now in market. This movement insures the eruc tation orthe proposed Road from Buffalo :o Erie .foithwitla. The Road will be sixty 7 seven mi:e. l ie ,iekgth, and will be entirely finished hithe first day uf eext September, and probably before that time: Ve understand that all the Companies beta' ti Albany and Buffalo subscribed to this stock t e in t amount allowed by law , eacceprthe Utica and Sc o eetady C 0.., which took no iluelt. ' The residue a s readily taken by private citizens. One citizen oT Buffalo rook $50,000 and one of our , own took ~- vi tt 000 .-41ockester Daily Advertiser. ' IA Pitoet.sx roa Gnat:lmmesh—Last week. lobo Wager. Esq. * bad occasion to blast a tar e solid boulder of grunt)) on hie farm in Cape Elizabeth for the purpose of rent - owing it. The boulder was isrithout seam or crack otany appearance of one ' 'Oa. prying open one of the sifts, made by Ike blest there was a body tif:a. half ,grown frog. -with his tongue thrust nut of tile sleuth, is if forced . out by the prettier". There Wei avavityin tbearaid mime, just the size, farmland capell ty. to . receive the frog's isody, and front which it was taken.-.—Pertload ele. gas. • Cie WMIIII iptutr: E.R I E.. P A. 86TURD4Y M0R111143, DECEMBER 14.1830. / Congyes. Se far Congress bay be' bared well. No attempt at agitation has yet been tuado s by °Win of the extreuteists of the North or the South. etud the ;indications are that rte shall have a veiy fair srekking session. We hope so The century needs repiese;- *e people are tired °recrimi nation sod recrimination between different entities of the country; end deilreiaion work Ind leas spetrit-tua king for "home coisuniptiou." It Is true. the proceed ings thus far ban been devoid of any general interest. but it takes come time for the members to get nsedite the todiocs routine of business after so long a time 'Out In excitement and agitation. After Neer YAW we presume they wilt strip off their coats:and p tti work. Unitas States Senator—hags Black's Prospects. ladications_from the popohyr mind clearly point, we think, to Judge IlLact ai thersuccessior of Hon. Dann. Sronoxoe in the Senile otitis Hailed States. The On ty of the Legislature spodf this quaitiem is as plain as thi s wishes of the people Can make It t Judge BLACK Wet a rival of tot Iltor..ss for die Gaberilatoriel nomination. but he is no longer so. The people hive sigoified their, desire that his eminent taleWts should grace another sta tion, and he has announced hirdetermination to obey.— Heswill not, therefore, be acandidato for Governor even should the Legislators so fir disregard the papuler wit... as to select some one else..' Of this; hoWever, we have too fears, unless, indeed, our opponelierconsent again, to become the dupes of tO/130 designift demegonge hang ing upon the skirts of did Democracy, as they did a few Jeers since open a similar occasion. It is an old saying that "a born) child dreads; the fire," and we think our whig friend in the Legiilittnre will •be slow to try on a pair of “bargain and 011ie" gloves again: We ire of the opinion, ,theieforr, that Its election Of Judge &Act to the Senate is a foregone conclusion, sanctioned by the people and the press. raid imperatieoly. called forby the wants of the State. Ituth on the Work. Nitw that it Wicertaiu the Plank Road to Wattsburg will be finished by the first of Noveinber next. we deem it oar duty to cell pubho attentiou to the importance of taking immediate measures to have ,the road extended on to Columbus; with i view of • ultimately extending to Warren. Wl, are informed that a charter is silready in existaticii for that purpose, and it only requires a little ex ertion to set the boll in motion. Once set aping. it- Will roll itself. Bo far. Ws we can ascertain the public mind is ripe for the enterprise. indeed we are told that responsible men. have offered to build it. with their own private means. as far as Wayne, nearly half way from Wattsburg in Columbus. Certainly 'lsis citizens of the llourishiog village of Columbus, whoeire noted for their enterprise and public spirit, will meet the triad half-way! It is through a country admirably adapted to this kind of road; and what its more. will prove* profitable iciveM meet. There is no &situ of than Ire our citizens the extepsianrof this road Wall importiml. One fact will bo suCient to demonstrate h. The chimaera New York i \ I have already a plank road cosoplet A from Westfield to 1 Clymer. within six miles of dokm ni. . This road is ta king all the trade and travel from the North-western part 1 of Warren county to the lake that wav e whereas it lased Ito come here. A fact illustrative of this was told us the other day. Last year all the merchants 'and traders in that section of the country had their goods *hipped front :eur-Yorlt to this city. This year bat one solitary bill of goods . was received, by our Forwarding Merchants for hem—they had all found an easier end cheaper way of aching the lake by the Plank Road from Clymer to Vestfield. This is bat one item, but how much more "trade our city has beers deprived of by the same nature. it is impossible to tell; it I. - not.,nalikely, however, that it is no inconsiderable amount. This fact speaks volume*, and we trust it will have the effect of awakening the at • terition of our Citizen to thwimpartance of the Road to Wattsburg and its extension to Columbus. The Brie Bank. Con. C. M. Reed publishes a card in the last Gassete denying that the above tattled institution 'has refused to paynecie on Its notes u bas been Mated in the Ream/ ern and Western, papers, and "ng "that the Bills ftie proatiptVredeerned at the ernter.aMl by Dressll & / to Philadelphia; Kramer &Rahn: Pittsburg; ■nd Patehen BMA Buffalo, N. V." Ile fuhher ass he ••ho is him self individually liable for the redemption of very Bill put is circulation whilehe presides over the 'ilatitutiou." P. S.-:-Siuce the shove was In tips., tke foilnwiag statentelor the condition of the Baulk has been handed us, b) the Cashier, with a request toptiblisk: Eats. asst. Dec. 11, 1850. Dr. Capital Stock. . '101.895 00 " Notes in circulation, old issus,, , 10,470 00 new ", 1 66,315 00 .. DUO Deiositoriii, • 12.631 . 29 Dividend unpaid, . r 19 50 " Profit and loss. L 519 34 1 • 1 1 `• $191.853 13 • . • ' Cr. By Discount of notes and bills Ezi. • 123,751 05 •' Erie Bulk Sock. . 15,375 00 " Real Estate. 4.604 06 " Erie Canal Stook. " 5,00000 ." Etie.Casal Bonds $13,551, can i value. 6,713 13 Eastotti Deposit and due from Bask', . 17.5'N100 " Nouns from tidier Banks, . 8.410 00 " Specie Funds, -: 10.493 89 --.—_, A • $191.853 13 ID" The Northern Drasocrist still ;Monists that there are two doMocrats in the present CongreWe from Michigan. and that both voted fir tho Fugitive Slave BILL Its an. thprity is Gresle)ts whir Almanac., We prefer better - authority, and dm/ is the Democracy at Michigan them sclvus.. Although Kissley S. Bingbaan was elected as I a Democrat, it is well known that' be, has net acted with that party since his eleelion.lo consequence of arhiclthis constituents bay, kicked, hint seiarctit of the pale orate party that even that oicicallendernau,now almost forgot ten, Martin Van Boren, can't see him. Perhaps thi• miscalled "Dinsuocrat" will still say that Bingham ve led for the Fugitive Slave Bill. ever which it lacewing. ally shedding ereekodde tears. anJ **Wiest heartily rejoice at his defea"—aekiin b; waent k a candidate. Truly, the knowledge displayed by Ibis paper of its own kidney is "excruilating." Er Au editor w recently seen I , i'l Neli?eirie. is the untliepu d possessio f s theses.' °Ilona! Hinson is after hi We have it on tips *Obesity of the Eris o.3serr • , and presume the mastbe souse Leeefeco state rimer , possibly the would-be sivater—San Ma nses —42lltabuls Tel apt. I. • ng. sir; wrong it wu Geo.syhtes Charge. to Austria. Gen. James stem Webb the man that bap tised yoor*pie-bsW party with the no "Whig." and the money was one of Mons fifty-twe t d dollars begot fru= theineek of the Gaited fßates f the job. Er•Wio we 'indebted le friend Middaugh. of the Red Jacket Odeon. for a fine fat Varkoy. "alias sad kiekingp" intended for our. Thanksgivilsg dieser. • As we b a d b een proviso/11y oupplied,. it still lives. • 03011111111,11 t. to oar previous good lortsms. LP We ars request to say that aemb of those who Ilieb o "trip dm light faitsetic toe" am sheet to got ep ;oft at Major Brown's Hotel oo Christ imei Imo. Of mune. "an the coral sod tho rate staskinit mid womankind too. will be so kind.. Tickets will Wheel is s sw days. 17 The "bolds Jessasl d C switisl .is de.this of • sow daily is Boas& It is published by Jones. Mathews & Co.. is ladopenilast Is panties. sad oaken a very slat lad szediitthie appearaaes. If it shall b. eon. &lewd with the iadepeadasoa sad taleat of L. New Yak samess4s. it is bound to suessed. trSebseriber• to the 'leading Boots will ergot Ws misiog at the Sheriff's ofike to host reports of COO. tektites. A lesiva! attendance is reganned. C. McSPAtREN. Caviar. A True Speen .f Neiwagsper Postage. •Greshey; of tits New York 'Tribe:es. la reiiewing the resat report et Mr. Postmaster General HALL, puts forth tha following as his idea of a fair and liberal system of newspaper postage: , • "Mr. Hall is very fair so far as he goes with regard in N ews papers, but he does nut go tar enough. The freight Is the essential point in the trunsportauon of Printed Mat ter; consequently. the ,conaiderutions in favor of a uni form rats at Letter Postage do sat apply to Periodicars,&c. It is not just and equal to charge as much for carrying a small newspaper twenty guiles as foe carrying ■ large one MO thousand mile.. One cent per printed sheet. weigh ing not more then two 01HIC611 whoa mailed. is probably a very fair 'general rate; but there should be a much lower rate fur Ccnutry Newspepersthat is. for all peri odicals conveyed less than forty miles. We think ten cents per annum as the posing* of a Weekly, twenty of a Simi-Weekly, thirty for a, Tn. Weekly. and siity for • Daily—to be paid fora hill year la, advance—would be fair rates for all journals conveyed not more than forty nines from their respective places of publication. .We believe each rates wired la most advantageous, yet bet justly so. to the Country Press. which es now unduly crowded by the city journals.' The Weekly Tribune. for instance. now.paYs seventy-eight cents in Michigan.ll - Wisconsin: lowa. eire, while the imperials printed ill the very counties whew taken pay fifty-two: this is too. little •difference: but to reduce oars to fifty-two and leave, the local journals subject to the same rate. woald aggravate die injustice. 'One cam por copy, payable quarterly in advance. f ry newepaner sent more than lorry miles. and, ten cents pair year. payable annually in advance. for every Weekly transmitted lees than forty mike. with corresponding rates for papers printed soften er titan once a week. would' be just about right. We have no faith in the "frankilag" principle. whether ap plied is our favor or agniastl us. sod would bays every thing pay its own way. Itwould tie borne its mind that, though the Conveyance of mail may. cost enure now Juan formerly. the Convey ce of mall matter' per tug costs less—much less: an of the reduction (per tun conned by the subsytutiel of steamboat and: railroad tranaportution for coach an horse carriage , the bulkier portion of Mail matter is - fa ' ly enfitledlo the benefit." i t We scarcely need say w coincide in these . views of t he Editor of the Takes. ( We hay* devoted some hula attention to•the subject. have had some experience isrpost ogles matters: and:a:good deal more in the newspaper business.'all of which has fully court dne that while the present system is gleriPair partis and unjust. that srwhich moat of our cotuppoSaries are anxioug to have revived...-vise 'free ciffalution of news*pers within thir ty Milos of the offiCe of publication—ii bat little, if any, better. There is no work so illy donricas that for which one gets nothing. This Intelsat was fully verifyed io the ithori time the law remained in existence allowing the free ci i talation of newspapers within qiirty miles of the, office publiettion. The Postmaster,' got nothing for the trouble of keeping and deliveringtiha keel papers, and•coneequernly cared, its t corresponding degree. as little whether they were• delivered at alt or nat. • More than this; it was to their interest that each papers should ot circulate. They. would Ouch tither the ireoptittook papers that would yield Mph, some gpmpeasation, end hence ‘they became efficient Agents for the city weeklies iu oppolpition to their local p o tpor4 We know this was not the( case *kers the P tmesters *ere men of any principle or public spirit. ,1161, the Department wan not always fortunate is selecting! such Individuals. Its *p i pointeee sometimes were men who looked upon every I local paper coming to the office ovei which they presided as just .10y-two cents dishing. to their pockets. It Is true the rats of postage proposed by the 'Therms, or any other rate based upon the seimepriaciple. is. in some respects. 1 liable to this objection also, bet it gives the subscriber. as well as the publisher oflocal papers, a pacaniary right to be fairly dell with; avid that. lei* matter how email, we all *mewls more potent with such men is we t describe than I all the oaths of fidelity to the'' trws,t reposed in ,them by ' the Department they are required to take. , From considerations hke /hese , and many more we hairs not room to enumerate. but which will strike the in telligent reader. we bed long three arrived at the concha lions shadowed forth In our eittract from the Tribune. It is a subject every - eamitry publisher is deeply interested in. They are not alone, hotelmen.. The rehding and writing people—there thathil,ye soni and daughteri to bring tip and educate—thee& that have real estate and ether property they wish to make more valuable: id shcirl. 1 the plglauthropiat as well as te politician,, the reforMer 'in politics as well as morals, a I are interested in making . the local press more efficient. nliore respectable. and heifer conducted. This can only be done by placing it ,titre upon equality withihecik prem. iu regard to post A it is, this is not the case. beery member of Cong tom the ”rural districts" knows this. and more. .' n that, every one knowi thaThelowes attach of his fa l, at ,_ 1 home and abroad, mere or lem4, to the local press of i is district. Without that local press ho eonlll never r tho cars of the people at tl4at most important cri before 'an election. In fact, :ills local press Li the and soul of the 'political orgat4zstionof the eenuiry behoves, then, the statesman j as *ell- as the mere ticinn, to see that his ••nearttd soul" is not drains its lifeblood by laws favoring • trasy,irickly; genii tal mattitneth sheets which arit now epewed-ell ore • land from the strain presses 0" the city. A pasta: oat, coat for alt distances, and till sizes of tiewspirpers recommended by the•Postutaslcr General, *old do t It_ !solid gives complete licebse to the "Modify' • iers" and "Scott's %Veoltiies"liif our eastern cities well conducted ham). paper Usu come in competiti with the country press., The'y innot be published ch eneolh. his only inch blanket sheets as we have nem made up of paid puffs, intereplorsed with sickly tales a mawkish poetry, from the pens of moon-struck iyou men and maidens, who wouhl be touchf more protab employed in hoeing their fathin'a corn eMel mending th inothero shirts and • atockiuga, that find their way in ilium! every family in the country. And, we are so to say, some of our country Assimilators are tbs dame arum iu disseminating this trash. S \ . Evidence of Prosperity. : 1 Nri'ver, within the history - of the country. has the heed a time when bnterprioe meets so sure a reward now. In ever'y doping:eat of busbies* this is more • lon oartervable, bat in• none more so than in the so • of railroads and kindred compables. Their increased ccipu have not beau confined'to any section of the con • try. bu l b t are univergril , betokening general proiperity i eve department of business . The rise in rail • , etec has added a *rut "mount to the available property of the country. god is beginning to be felt is the bum's , ed abundance: of money and the appetite it is creating for new schemes. The* impretrement is airy favorable to new projects. gs it enables them ,to negotiate their seen= ritienat favorable rates. On the whale, there has never been a period when the- prospects of railroads were more flattering. and their rapid prospective growth mere cer tain: • Thaw now io "berating are •beginaing to repay three" of construction. and what is of still mere impor tance. by opening a ntaritotloriour productions, they at. ford ms means which would hose, bat for the facilities of tragsportation they furnish. been entirely unavailable: . means, that Gamble us to p with l new works without pressers tad ombarrassumuthich their first construc tion occulons: huit, 'Lilo The Blade Courier says di eppeeritig fugitive slave Cllll3l, t that city a her days slain: Sestitute.smi friendless: Age passing a few dsys with ass of our wealthy citiseno, w kindly provided him a. home, and having learn) ths.n Mee of some of our load ing abolitionists, hi istiiied So hem to solicit aid. Afkg laying his before two if he foremost is this great cone of humf.ity. the - Mse ga s him FIVE sod the oth er SIX CEL TS! Altismet b re4 gestiessen prefer to do "rod by iboaltb." sots of giattsorisity should be pablisbed. They stand e es filial events is the lives of these boasvolsot prse and eitield be rooordal to their hence. 111111 cr ay• lit, set of Co: which pea iii Isla opera- Goo es the 1.111 instant Bpasiali mud saw as ix iga col hose bees reduced is Tulsa. Spanish aira will Iworaafter MlAs* foe Deli twisty cents- 17 The Gerais bas age's isms calked epos blabs ep the eudgsl in defuse albs solvency sf tie EA* Back sews ef dm Easters Bask sets Reporters beide( siren ed that it was • ••bested up" saucers. This is caul is tbe smarmier enlist protiese institutes. b• should set require es mach wort for ed little soy. It is amt slag In sue with whet steady. though mot ita petceptaide strides the hig party and its leadersitp7 preach tho platform of Democracy. A few years since opposition to the Independent T wee the' "rdsa /IMIX bonnos"—the "chief g00d." 7 -of a true and loyal whig; and thi extra session of Converse, called by Geo. Harrison before his death. was in session but a law disy!ti tilhthe law was repealed. Now. however, she lodepipo dent Treastiry stand! Ise firm upon its foundation—the good sense of the county—that Mt. - Fainters does not deem it necessary- to :diode to it at all in his message.— Whigery sow is Dot what it was his on this point, that is evident. Again; one of the Arat ids of that extra session win the'passage of a bill fur the eatablishtheut of • 1 1'110011 Bauk, in accordance with the recommeodittion of Mr.{ Ewing, the Secretary of the Treasury.. This was • I, /whir mentor ii tiro. and because President Tyler reikted I it, he wardenounced as a second Arnold; and the ligh t' of whigery withdrawn from his' countenance. Now, however.' Mr. Corwin. Becrelary of the Tre wary. re commends no such messare- , -the President hirneelf dews not evil; hint at - 4,—and yet the whig piity and its pruneses quiescent a; lambs at the niegkit. Here it is plain a tin. that whigery is not sow whit it was thin. This e ercisa of the President's prerogative - by Mr. Ty lrr , in regard to the Bank . immediately brought into tle existence ,fiorce opposition to the Vete power. This way immediately incorporated its the whig creeddand from that time *uutil.,General Taylor succeeded to the Presi dency, denunciations of the "One man power" was a "pais : card" telhe hearts of all tree and loyal whip.-t. The position of Gen. Tay for in retire to the exercise of this'powerd conferred upon the President by the Coosa- - tattoo. is wolt,known. His two Allison !env were so plain, that none could be mistaken. Ile wont l *of: ex excise it, he declared, "except.in eases of clear! rieletioe of the Gonstitution.-or unteirmit haste and wait of con sidentien by Congress." This was the no plus ultra of ' true whigery then. put what siya Mr. Mutt:iris wow.— His '1 "opinions will be frankly expressed." Ise decline d , • "and if rimy act ,should pain the two houses of Congress which should'appearTi Mai uneonstitutiona ro/, or an 'en cachment on the j et powers of other departments." ha "will not shrink from the duty of returning it" ,with his objections. Thus' flatly repudiatinig GU. Taylor's, and the whig party's doctrine in-regard to"the exereiserof the veto, and. planting hiriiself upon the broad platform of the ,Donnocracy. Here again our opponents do not les- ' ~ copy the ground now they did then. is Tariff fur protection—a high tarill"--in oPposition:to one for revenue, has been the loafing cry "ef onr . pppo. neat. almost eversince . Webbstood God:father to MO un a-musosry isnd."nationil republicanism," and bsptised them with theie present cognomen. But Mr. Fillmore' . has given their' "spew light—has discarded these dogmas upon which - be came into power, and decleres, in the language of the Demoiracy, that "A high teriffcin nev er be permanent"—"it•will cause disaMisfaetion and will be elicaged,"—"it exciodeecempetition, and thereby itt vitas the invistrinnt tif capital in ruebufactureir to 'such, °acme, that when cluinged it brings distress, bankruNcy, andruie, upon all gibe leave been misted by it; faithless protection"—and that duties,are lerierfto "repleniA the tremary," &c., ecc. io nee the language of e lead. whig paper in this State in co:nmentieg on the message, "surrenders the whole question 'of protection" for it:ch wbigery has so long.cintended, end proves that upon yet one more. Point Our 'opponents have been forced to ac knowledge tbe niisdorn and justice of Democratic Mes. sures cad principles. 11Ve alight pursue this parallehfur ther, and show that the very plattorni upon which Gen. Cites stood in 1849 in regard to slavery in the !utiles:its, has been adopted and; commended by o ir nig President, and received the'hearty support of whig statesmen in 1850,-but it is not necessary. .The people see it, and feel it. ccr The ' KtnWey/crruiersee that James M. Perwoua. (Dem.) has been elected a. Senator .in Congress from Virginia. lie was the census candidate, and got a large mote. This result is rdenificaht. and Aiwa that although Virginia is warmly attached to the Union. she is not in disposed to teep in power one of those who have been especially devoted to ! Southern rights. Jude Mason, was the author of the fugitive Slatie Law, and is a gen tleman of decided • Q 3 IL is announced.. and the prospectus has been is sued fur the publication of a new paper, At Harrisburg, which. it is said, will be National in ita cliaracter,—supr port President Fillitiore's administration, and oppose Johnstou and his Abolition and Anuistaien:c nasty,— It is tn,b6 called i dle &ate.lorrraal. Td - ore is "a good time coming," **wait a little longer." Cla' Because.we can't ; , err how au Ldi:or can "war with -slavery" is a State in *luck slavery does not exist, like New Hampshire, Our Northern Democrat thinks we are "more nice than arise." and that , our "powers of elude discrimination" are 'ler ahead of Locke,C placing us. indeed, "health, the most minute of the German re vapor- 1 ists." We scarcely care ache we aro placed, so hat it is not in the ranks of the Trpiters of South Caroli a and Massachusetts; or their echoes,the ••higher-law" ea of Mississippi and New York. From all such company, good i. Lord deliver Ali. i_____-_i... , It is announced in sauna oft,re papers that a Mr. F. C. : BakeWell. has invented a made of telegraphing by which , a secures • fac simile,of the hand writing in which • message iE written. Tbacharacters of the original com unicatirin may be diminished or enlargill at pleasure. nd the new machine may be applied to printed matter ithei.en more facility than to manuscript. The discos- . [ lll try can be wade available• with the present wires and a oltiic battery. . Er The "Lawrence Journal" is requested to give fredit When it copiow from this paper .hereafter. The ar ticle in its lait nuniber beaded ••God never mad a !loaf er." belongs to us. We are not very tenacious about each things, bat the ✓surraal is is the habit of taking in discriminately whatever it likes, without as much as . I ••tbarik you." , [ . . . , Ti! Itagaghtee. .. Godey's ady's Book, for Januruy . commencing the new year an new Tolima, is a splendidnumber, worthy of the fame e has heretofore acquired in its conduct. The engravings, fru, beautiful original designs. and intitled "The Con taa4'" "The Four Eras of Life." "A erry Christen and • Happy New Year.!' "The ylphs of the Se ons.‘' and ethers. The publication or a new American drama. called "The Judge." by the talrted editrees, Hrs. Sarah 3. liaie.'is tOnsm•nced in this number. $3 per annum. Graham has sent us wa early copy of his Magazine, for January. It_ is. get up in superb style. . Tye. engraving on the cover is 'a beautiful idea, beautifully illustrated.— "The Source of Proapttity:"*Union•Pirk." and "Erin ing in Persia." do great credit to thiS book. Graham is never behind his cotemporarics. and in some- points of matter and-embellishment, we think, exhibits a stqwrior lute. His magazine always has, been eminentiy Amdri can, and be deserves all gilt patronage 'best - timed - upon him -$3 pet annum. k _ a very intelligent. fine We can remit& either of the above Marszines and the 61etermw.forit3 50—euly fifty cents more thweilho coot of the Filswsxine. Now loin excellent time to witbseribe. U Col. J. A. BooWdeit, late Treasurer of the Phila delphia Mintarrived io town yesterday, sad is stopping with his brother-its-law; Judge Theropsou. • An Engliih brig, the Ellen Anne, was lately struck by a meteoric stone, while in the British Channel. The report was like I musket charge, and the planking of the deck was teen up and per faceted. in several places es if by musket shots. No signs of a thunder storm were to be seen or heard, though the day was dull and lowering, with a fresh breeze. The occurrence is said to be very rare is the British Channel, though (*neat op the "Medi terranean. • • Dow s Than—A !Wad Drava. What Next? Iltrup Emma each. 0 1 ' Mistimes. we tin, we do front habit. One* etunatenes doing good, and you *ill lad, inn short time, it is as easy as lying. .1 : - _ ~I~N i. ; X ll . .)' 1 Y.i =ISIMI • Foa Tett Washes Faste.—lt isaaid -tint Barna te is about to matt arrangements to Mad an E r i e County Jury w the World's Foie. It woe' hi p ay, 07" A country girl, Ia writing home about t h e Puika, say. the dancing is not much, but the hug. gint is heavenly! The woman Awl be gi fted. 02- how true the sating, that Tall; m enet 0( crimes miy be proved against the unfOrts est , A\ the iuccesafol never sit." ,01"•Natere is spokgn of in the feminine gs s d„ , because she be co .ettliNglpilt. In rich carpets dn. pony, dress and ptifureety. 1:17"An !intuit farmer thus writes to the,Chainaid cf an English agricultural society—"Gentlenes, please put , are down on your of cattle for a bo: , 07' A late English writer, in speaking of 14 United States says:, "It is the land of large fano, and thinly peopled grave yards." „ (1:' Elibu *mitt says that the best teeth drop, fur young ladies art to drop the practice of drei l i q , this wbeo they go out in the night air: OE7- Bome bo d y tent / the ,Ettiitof of the Carlisle h Dessocivg a bead of cebap the'tOer der. So ur . krout Editorials, It is presumed, will Km A ditlCOUta lu atilt!' mother' Cumberland” hereafter. , • li7"The man with a '•brick• in his bit" ■as is tuwp on Thanksgiving day. He swore he'd ratter }lave a bottle ci the 'real stingo" thin all the mei. papers in the world.' * nappy /rumen. , 07`lf all men were just, Says awns one, all mad would be'isppy. Boethere ittae "if" in the *ay, and that "if' is a bad stumbling Wean/an WWI path. ° 'The origin of the '.Vegetarians" or Brea Bread people, which has long puzzled the learned; bail at length been discovered they sprung front Nebuchadnezzar when be waifen 4x. That accounts for bran-bread Greeley being euch,Za calf. • • I ter' hey are going to have a Hour of Refuge id Pat - teburg. All right.no city in the Union needs it mot", and the very first personthti should go in 6.... it, o the Penitentiary, is'the May or. . • Jame, Gordon Benpett bee gone to Haxema, and will nut return until the mariti and stripes are effaced, whichhe•receiyed from having indulged to freely in the Grisham system. • El "The Southern Press," publiiihed, Nash. ingtmeths organ of southern disaniobists,. rith r ' cures meetings in favor of maintaiing the Union, in the same style that they are Atipartged at Ow north be free ['toil, abolition,and quasi free soil paperLi, O Two dramatists of the r remits* gender, kid ; an "affair of bottur7 in N. York City recently......one 1. flourished bdwie knife arid the othtir pulled hair. The•ltir puller wis'victorious. 07' Isaac Laser, an eniment Heb Few scholar of Philadelphia, appeals to the Jewish public to tea ' hicenterprise in the publication of • "New Trait - lotion pf the Holly Scriptures. "• How edany• tin I mull the wen! of•dod be altered , before we get t correct! (1 7.-A member of this Cuattecticut Assembly mo ved far }cue tb bring• i bill for extending As .poith - - ,ers of justices. Anther requested, , as a previous motion, that a'statitte might " C passed to genii their Capacities. = C ' (17 Theodore Parker compare, some men who , grow suddenly rich to cabbages groWing in a violet bed; they smother the violets, but site, after n, nothing but cabbaips aids. . ('The bells jingled right merily i 4 our idirts this week. The music was very pleaSant, bet vary. dear.i They remind us of the . belles of our tirne.r , flourshingi for ilt) brief season. were pleasant to the eta, and very, very dear.' The viltige 'of the Ernp:re State are getting amiable. The folloners of killatore call the Sew ard.tec, "Mio!)-Ileads," while the admirers of that "Jfigber-law".politiciin return the• compliment by calling the others "Saver-grays." Both names am viiteiapproviate. Q' 1t a printers' resti‘al,.hefd in Nashville, the "Ly eiick . ? wait toasted; iind described as "the chime,' casket by nbich the printer bolds the des tinies of empires and statism' communities, u the Liol!ow of his hand.' - ()' If you wish to become a great mss. in this word you must make a great noise. Modest was stand no more chance for success than a bobtailed horse in fly time. It is not the shepherd, tint the sheep with the bell that t h e flock follows. Apia we say, "Go in 4=11%7 and make a splurge, laj'' An Ark ii being built by a min doWn East, in auticipatiot , ,vuf the nest flood — of tears' shed by his wife, When he ref Uses to take her to the / opera. Ile thinks he caiwer!ther dusts:mu., •-' 1,• ,!A Salo l oicotton,ieceatly, sent from Slyer pool to the Abirdeen railway, was found on being opened, to contain a lite cat, which from her ema ciated appearance, was jiidged"to .hare toads thir passage across the Atlantid, in that manner. hid she go through thp cotton press! %ihoever as swers, do so categorically. ar• The Editor of the wanes about "twelve inches" of snow, "packed sod crisped," to "raise his spirits." We hope be Clerk •of ths Weather Will take pity on him; bait if etaGa quart of Monongahela would do acwell, Perhipe. That. Guy. Johnston's exPerienci. erj" The followirtg< beautiful stanza is from the ,German. flow many of us. live'dav alter day, till days tura., into months, and swathe ineo:feent, in hope of some fancied good,• and when at list our goal is reached- and that far which we have pine 4 is at tained, find "our hope and joys abadod,". out antici- pations turned to ashes on our lips: Beside the wean' that geady n twa i • • • At morning dawn I saw a In modern beauty blashing: - Wm; this than all on earth betide. It bent above the crystal tides And touched to its gushing. Beside the stream that gently dom. ' • At eventide I saw the tore But ill the leases were aided; Such is thy fate. Oh iosa:--on hoer ' ' • Thou hest in !lope. but like the er. Thy hops an 4 joys ite - theeeer-._ Quit is said thatthe man that whips his wife, in Corn' psl N ty wit!' the man that quarrels with a fool sod strike.o cripple{ left town the other day is quest of the man who bcirrows his neigbbor'n news paper, for the purpose of forming a copartnership in the busk**. of purloining playthings from sick infants and blind children. r 07. The Boston Tunes says that a man eats up a pound of sugar, and the pleasure he has enpyed is ended; but the information be gets from a Dewy paper is treasured up ha the mind, to be eniyid anew and to be used whenever occasion or inelids. don calls for. it. Of 'come the Timer means if the man has mind enough to treasure it up, anfria• cipte enough to pay for it. ii • , Awrvt..—The ladies of ,Williamsport eat r aw turnips in the streets, sad is 'Wig so make such !trashing sound indicating a terrible deatruetion of vegetable nutter,"' that the Dditor of the Gazette of that Village mistakes the wait' sometimes fur tbi mastication of "a horse or an ax." This i 5 and We do not - Impair that be is an tatterriO la bachelor.
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