NA curie lilitektg Ottstrutr. E R rE. •P A SATURDAY MORNIHI3. MARCH 99 .1851 Light, Ahead. • • , to Dos toraoth of our Legislators has passed a reaolutioo to adjourn on the 15th of April. irst of AprilAtioving Stibecribers mho intend to change their places of reai• densest' the first of April. are requested to give us time ly Delia of the fact. Iworder that there may he no min takeladelisering their papers after that date. 11± Navigation on,our canal ties fully' conamenced.— Several boats hare already arrived and departed. The near finiterintandent. Mr. Bell. displays greet saerir'y and capacity in petting the line is navigable order, 'and ev erything indicates that we aro to hays an unusually busy anal on. • Newspaper Records. fir. Passim hem introduced into the State . Senate a bill requiriurthe County Commlssiooers &every canny in the State to subscribe fora cep* of each newspaper published in the county - . got exec...ding four. by the year: Mid without ieference to party polities, and to keep a of the seine, and to have thew bounifeviry ~. year. Tne commissioners afore/aid are also authorised and requir ed to porches* from time to. time. isoU exceeding foor -kinds, as aforesaid. files of newspapers published within the comity. doring.any period of our colonial and nation al history. The Washington Ugion. The -T•ligraph annonnees that the Union riewspaper, has been disposed of to Maj. Andrew Jackson Donald son. and Nisi Armstrong; the veteran Ritchie retiring. 'oil of Ironer and of years. The change eras made yes terday. The new editors ate men of distinguished abil ity. and will give the Union even greater efficiency than it possessed under its original editor. QT The Crawford Democrat gives a most flattering tie= countiof the growth and prosperity of Nleadville.,tiast amil . Among other improvements in coatecnpla iring the present.seasbn. is the erection of suitable tire for the rhitarlan Theological Seminary located ) This work has been undertaken at the instance of her eitizens, H. J. linidekeoper r taci; who o of- Lmake a donation of ten thousand dollars, en con. that the futher sum of forty thooftand was obtained mount, or nearly so, has-been subscribed; twenty and in Now England alone. ' - ~ . . proep Goo • build there of on 12133 feted dition ',This sixth ELT The Mayville Sentinel and the Conneaut Repor ter, in the chaste language of the former, "ever ready to stoiri to the lowest depths of meanness." have 41is cover that the Legislature of this State has committed a hien rue crime in passing,* bill regaliting the gauges of railroalis in this coonty, and berate that body Iv for so doing.' These 4ton are either wilfully ighorant, add therefore dishonest, 'br they hav'nt miens* to compre hend well-know facts. In either cue it is hardly neces sary to set them right. but we will do so cues mare. and it is the hundredth time, at least, that we have corrected them. or soma of their kidney. The Legislature of Pen usyivania has not elanged tho gauges of the Eastern and Western had., - That was done long ago by the respective Legislatures of New York and Ohio. Mg- Sentinel well-kaolin, If it really bows anything, that the New York roads are all 4 feet 8 inches, and 6 feet. and that both these width of gauges are building this way.— The Reporter knows equally well. if it is alike capable of comprehension, ttrat all the roods in Ohio. built or being built, are of the 4 feet 10 inch gauge. Therefore. these- Editors will at once see, if they havii the faculty even of a 'juvenile specimen of the canine specie.,, that there Must be a change of gauge somewhere. The Legisla ture of Pennsylvania hes seen fit to say lhat "some where" shall be at Erie, exactly hair-way between the boundaries ape two States. But it is useless to waste words—the ignorance of such ninnies is wily equalled by their malignity. Kissed ard Made 14: Gen. Scott and Mr. Ex-Seeretery Marcy; who. aethe c; r reader re Wet's. discharged several piper ballots at each ether dbrin the Mexican war, have kissed and made op. It Wil, do in this wise: Gen. Scott, seeing Ni. Marcy at a large ally in Washington. said to his friends that hamnat go and tee him. *lcor the first tiros aince:oor pen and ink contest." Thikv shook hands. After the remo val of the cloth. Gov. Marcy was toasted. and, according .to a letter in the Tribune, replied that whatever fame be had acquired as Governor of New York was very much 'confined, not only •to the limiti of his own State, butte (eared to limits Much smaller than the area of that State. He felt nsitired s that there were thousands 'of people in New York who-lfad a very small opinion of hie poor abil ities. It was true that imconvequence of au erronions opinion Mr. Polk had 'formed of him. he tens once ap pointed Socrttary of war. - And is that (said Mr. Marcy) I was still more 'unfortunate. . Ail the honor I gained was but by refiectiou—refiection from the brilliant deeds of those (bowing very gratefully to Gen. Scott)`with whom as the head of that department, I was in souse' manner connected." We are hnny to tai thatit is the opialop of competerit judges that the wor d breaths, freser nott : How it War ._, r Capt. Itl'fattish, late Commander lathe li S,Stesmer• Mich Van on this station. now. of the frirte St. 1.• , 31 &eine, in a letter from Rio Janeiro to a friend at New York. speaks highly id favor of the advantages resulting • en board of his vessel Irons abolishing flogging. Ile -has also substituted double duty as a punishment. in stead of the item' The good men on, board his vase are, however. ityfivor of the huh. The letter add,: . "I shall never nova difficulty in managing a crew if. the Goverment will give MC as they have done it , this iime. capable officers. and g•tv.lornen, to assist me. I Lave some bad men. its true: but I will keep them in order without the eat, a d I Shall give the go:Tr:nue:a no trouble whiled am h e." t Welding the Lipka: - ' The Michigan Southern Railroad is now ecmptleted4 within 27 miles of Cold Water, (150 miles of Lake Erie at Monroe and Toledo,) to which point it was opened on the 10th inst. This will tery largely increaser the in come of the company. ' Tlin entire line will be comple ted op td the Indian Siege Line by_Sely next, and thence theiNorthernilodiaisa road to South Bend iu all the month of August next. Look Out: Spurious h , ; dollars. to a considerable amount. have been put in ci elation In some of the cities of the %Vest. They are of t emission 0f,11343, toieraoly well execu ted, though open close examination. the face of the fe male will be, found tt.perfect. They are lighter thud the 4 genuine. zed hare As letter C on the reverse, which Lb* ,wales hays net. lET Gar. Saw !looms having communicated to Ma jor Storm:won of Cincinnati, his intention of returning bogie byway of that city, this :Kends there. withdill the; unction of party. tendered him as invitation to • public dinner on his arrival- The Nonpariolsays: . "The names in the matter campanulas members of the bar, and many of oar most reapectable . and influential citizens. We tract the hero, of Ban Jacinto will not disappoint the wishes of on! citizens." 11:7' 'The Conneaut Reporter states that the' Steamer Saratoga **could not get into Ens on &dement of die tea." The Reporter eitherloriginates or retails a falsehood. 1:711e . death of Sheldon Thompson, one of the Oldeet. as he was one of thw meat esteemed of the. eitizeia of Buffalo. is atmeeneed is the morsel, that tit . Er We have received. scants! in advance. chntrait's Majacine for April. hie a my feed nomber—set many pages as that for March—bat beaatilily. eriabet lashed. UT Arrired—Ydartis Farquhar Tapper. tho- Iwo,. ar rived at thaw York -ha the Steamer leis, es Fridike week. ' ... Our Railroads• and There la always two-aid - well told story; and the rail be-eity is no exception to thi cider it a "fixed fat*" that w the coming summer—coon eat width of track. with No tic cities. and hence think t and dictate bow and when, Eastern roads may connect Are they wise in this. is it q and in the present state of tendon. So long as this di width of track, it wes ill W asserting and ritaintalning we were 'fortunate enough t it received our earnest suppol removed that bone of co that Elie shall be the tenni tern gauges.—that here the inch gauges shall girt plea track. 111 With that we ought our energeis to .the speed West: Such, however, do amnia. and among them is the Son.ttor from this die He, and his backers. hay heads' that it is an absolute, roads to counect with the % 1 to submit to all sorts of legi abandon the enterprise. II that he is the • representetiv tool of a few specalatore, ha cured its passage through d the cempanieiclaiming the road, shall first construct ti the stiothern cud of their / shall be allowed to take tol and the Ohio line. and al state to tax every railroad ha mile. for the benefit to th ' and ton of freight 'tree evident intention of this ja any road being made.'; ee undertaken to build one" give Op the field to their rive have not yet let a contract i It the first is the obje ••t, it i.i of the steamboat Interests o the entire community. All gentlemen of this city. lard stock, has chartered three II 1 1 and Erie Railroad Compati rill the coming season. 1 -doubtedly, realizes a nice roli and nothing would suit hi ui be enabled to do's° every U West, however, would cut "Othelo's occupation woui people being blown up or liii would take the more speed] ante, the Railroad. If th [ 1 bencft of this interest. 'heal L 01 . 1) it to drive oil, as we hal ? , pang that has already co Legislation to relieve the weight. In Soy event, it for private and selfish en would have been introduces gauges of Railroads in Erie beyond controversy that ll "authorized to construct a build the road to the Ohio who supposes that if the Pi stood exactly'where the Fr ' with their road commen t rc iron puhissed..and the w forwardness that it could from here to Clevelaud by piece of Legislation would answer. noons in the mom 0, 1 known. and the whole in to bear upon it. underst cpiestioa as due purely tierW been settled as other rival tied. The people care Hui it is constructed so they W that. Ind now this gross O seat to Herfieberg as the but Who hails proved them a conapimci. It is srell i (ached to the fortonecof t or have planed much relit manager in pow easing in ;he route anrceyed. thoug 'willing to do hint justice, through one cola 1111111. Ilw has changed. :sod whether net. we for ape are not by the pack sow upon hi we perhaps ought to say t from Erie county. A. W. this charge. Us has in . representative ought—ind honorable. trust that N,, riGAr y,e es LAXII E which left Cleveland on ice oh. Erie oh Saturday, whole of SWnday night passengers evening at log mashie t reach any o gets loft trio yeas! the win her do the rheks.. It is $ mach dif6ca4r. She had who reached Otis city by r The above was tele' Turk for the 'f.loisirsa; of in point of the little relic report,. One of two either the 114porier is a both. Sow he facts of of February, there has ing in or kra:ting this referred to, ibe St. Loci laid at snob* all day, It pairing har t Went oat is impeded bet !progress, all eight. That site "vary true, bdi it was A Man The Vs:si l ts says Mr. county is a man of ••iot sod open-hearted inter man would itcter betray Netiortheless. this man paseage of s un through ber. which this same t nous apprehensions. if destroy both charters defeat any Western of “intevityr that! Er An iMpreasion how, we are unable to Democratic •State Caw lucted for 'George Al Canal Comsaissioner. gates are ogiastrected. Fact' Speak in N. J. the bill re] passed beds amd,. the sigsatert of of the escutcheon et New Jet duelpineal of the bill , their seats. except two, sorry Denletstie sac ere the true fries& of kraryas to its T is of opinion that "Jean is sit "mock of a oomph •—"lk is abodt bks propesi peelteadary " trndoabted hoe a right no big opialea. alternative it salts prefer "tbs sight deflate a to everything. •ton to a • d matters of oar soon-to ?general rob. Macy eon• ire to be oaes.—say within ed by two roads, of differ :York and the other Atlas y eau now "put on alm s " d upon• what terms thew itb those of the *est.— , tiou of some impertaame. cue seems to require at- lion confined itself to the and proper. It Was only natural advantagol which and conscrently But the Legislat has 1* ' ben. sal alicidaci by law of the Eitnern and Wes ,fest rind four feet eight o !the four feet tau loch • he satisfied, and lend all pletioa of a road to the appear to be the view. their head. we may eayr— t, J. ft. WALII.II,I Esq.— oe . tbe ioo their neceuary for the .itsteni t. that they will bei willing tire •eatragee. rather than 'introduced title Senator. forgetting the people and;not the 'introduced • bill apd pro- Waite; declaring that hods i g'• • ht•to build the Western 1: stock forty •fiye pule, of speedy. reads before they n the portion between this wing the tight to the 2, county a half-a-cent per tate. fur every preserver p o rted epos thorn; The either effectually prevent olir compel thseowtro have abandon their work and who. itt it bs renterabewid. •ut a spade in the ;ground. law for the special benefit •e Lek* at the eiPense of • y we understand that a ialarooted in steamboat jigs boats to the Niw York o ron from "'kirk du• .•w this operation be an sum, say $70,000 clear, suppose, better Men to mer. A railroad.tromhere IH this nice speculation . ,' Joe gone." and s inatead of t op upon our waters; they and safer mods of convoy- aw is not intended for the e intention evidently is to before remarked, the corn- anew!. and wait for future thr company ' , of its dead a bill evidently concocted Who supposes this bill 1, ad net the bill "firing the onrity," settled the matter IFranklin canal company. •ad to Lake Erie," would Mel No one" • In a word; *burgh and Erie Company lin Canal Company stands, their contradts let.] their k • le work in such a state of I completed and can running unary 185% this entragious I • aro bead attempted? We unity where the parties are inert' that has been brought We look upon the 'whole • al, , and as inch should have !Marotta in hominess aro rot who bands this road. so that eh it ,The Jaw has decided • trap is attempted by men resentavires of the people. Ives the repreeentatives of newn.les have not been it. Franklin Canal Company, nce in the pretentious it its dimity to build a road over we have at all times been and allow him to be beard the whole face or the matter e baa the rights he claims ur ag to see NW bunted down track. In thie connection. at one of the representatives s lane. Esq...is not liable to respects, so far. acted as • pendent. high-tninded and will continue to do so. BI7P7ALO, March Ili I.E.—The 'teenier •St. Louie. , carder morning, got in the d after driving through it the •nd Monday, she landed her • int Colbunt, in Canada. be er port. After the pausa -1 changed suddenly and drove id she will get off without • n board about 75 passengers. ter*, &c.. this afternoon. id from Buffalo to New res. and is ■ decided case be placed epos telegraphic pions is evident from it— or a fool; perhaps a hide of due are that since the 20th nw obstruction to boaticom abd in the particular cue Ie In on Sunday morning. ir mechanics at work re- reningefound the ke below leek and - remained In port ted in the iee one night it night. and off Dankirk. ms Aer, the Senator from this boW. vigorous. couragioss. and declaim that "wish to e rests of his constituents.... ttegrity" has procured the body of which hs is • msm• confesses to entertain •4o loto • law. will •inoally road to the Ohio Una) and connection." Queer man have obtained abroad— AM the delegates to the from this comity are M t. Esq.. et Crawford. for not correct. Our del,- Wards. the property fielifseatioet rgisletere.end bee received or. This aid Piet epee the been wiped oat. Oa the &mete. ell the whip in: 'against the bin; while' voted for ite panne! Who went a—The Oswego PaMains a man a mat in Congress." nt in those degeserats days" tj to bead as iadividnal to the y the Editor of the Palladian Ae nay_ choose lb. latter fas for its we would mad day" and adage. Will th. ProtNiU4l3Ms be Ils,tialledl It may not belenerally knew. diets bin parsed Con vese—r( thrSesate at an early,datiroued the Home during its last hours)aarnaterially effecting the rate of duties on ant imports.—in fact, so altering the Law of '46 as to Considerably augment the revenue and at the same time afforded that "protection" which the manufacturers have so loudly called for. This bill provides "that in all ea sksurbers thins is or than be impelled any ad valorem rate of duty en any goods. wares or merchandise helper- ted foie the United States, it shall be the duty of the collector withla whose district the same shah be imported Of entered, to cense the actual market value or Thole: sale price thereof. at the period of exportation .to the United Statei,'ln the principal markets in the country from which die same shall have been Imported Into the Coital State to basppraiseii, estimated and ascertidued; tad to such Vale* or price shall be added all coals and charges, except insurance. and including in every cases charge for cOmmissions at the usual es, as this_ true 'sloe at th 4 port where the same may be entered, upon which dutiei 'shall be assessed." T sit will be. seen that hereafter instead of Iron payin a duty, of 30 per cent. on its drat mist per ton in ales. or Scadued. it will pay 30 per cent. on its Val here. This, talcs the' H art f or d t a t ai r.- gives Pennitylva ' makers a pro- waive duty, Of 45 per cant.. instead of the 30 per aent., I afforded by the tariff of 1846, because the average price of pig iron in the principal foreign market, Glasgow, is 1 about $l2 per too, and the average freight and charges from that port to this country, about $ per ton, or one. half the value of the iron there, The duty, thcrefom, is now equal ttt i +, 45 per cent., and the proration from the freight and charges is exactly SO per cent. more, making . he all 90 per Cent. of protection under this new, kW, up. on this prime necessary of every branch of industry.. This le a pretty good haul for Pennsylvania forms* sesaon and we suppise it explains the mysterious appearance of the whole legislature of that State in the lobbies of Coo; grass upon the last days of the session. After achieving this IlliOli fkli the cost of the hard-working masses of; die people, they'can well afford to go home an d keep their furnaces in all blast without whining for eny more tax es Lo n the co Inunity—until the next session of Congress. This 'law wits literally smuggled through Congress. It was bu4ried preugh the Siums with very little discus. sion. and after slumbering in the house for some weeks, was at length (on the irruption of the Pennsylunia legis lators, who literally stormed the capitol, like the Goths of old) taker} op and - passed on the last day, withoni any discussion lalL A large portion or the members, who were not p lie! to lie game, were doubtless entirely unaware oft the real effoct and design of the law as • very materittl increase of the tariff of 1846. Upon conies end woolen we are informed by good authority. diet this law. by levying the duty upon freight and cher,' will afford an additional amount of piotec tion, varyin from 5 to 10 per cent. according to the es i commune a d bulkiness of the imported article. Tice well-informid manufacturers also estimate that the ap pointment o appraisers at large affords them a further protection O l { aboot 10 pet cent. as compared with the old law.. by pre , outing fraudulent invoices. and securing • uniform va;tion. On the whole, the high tari ff men have mana d their card with considerable adroitness. If they have not obtained what they desired or exorbitant ly demands .they have at all events got more than they bad any relniin to expect. - They are pretty wen satis- I ; fled with tie mire% and we knew they Would be so when ' we observed the complacency with which Mr.'Wulthrop accepted H ater's bill as a sulptilate for his own. One Impirtant coneequence follow. from this state of things, amonly, that it effectually puts an end to tariff agitation an!an element in the impending election. It has net a le* left to stand upon. The whip, folfowing the advice of one of their sleek fazes, can' no longer "ag itate" to any purpose upon this subject. It is probable that the adjtistment now made is a final one, and that it will sot be disturbed by any fatare Magmas in the direc tion of an taierosoo of the dodos. Tim PaiMmmicr.--We me daily in receipt of pepsin from all par* of this wide extended Union. that bare wheeled intp hos. and run up to their mast beads the glorious flagicif the old hero of ••Chippewe." The lads. ration new are. that Winfield Boat will'ho oar leader in e.ona alirdp.dy J. mra r. 16nnayp6thi, 40•Doety Iran ,or the return Me gin n 4 descent of our forces upon the shattered ranks and broken equadroni of looofocoism!—Pitts. Transcript , Kline *Piftstiorgb cotempomry bad Wound off this grandiloquent Hotifsh with ' , God and Liberty," It wo'd have been tritly hterican. We burs no doubt some of this Lienton*te in Santa Annahi army saw ”thronelt the misty, veil eoliths future the grand descent or' that Gen erals “forces ;span the shattered ranks and broken squad rons" of the yezan at San /Reiman, bit notwithstanding these proph•Oc aspirations, their victory became a defeat and their lea fier a prisoner. Such, we apprehend, will be the menhir the descent of the whip in 4852 upon the hero of Han s Jacinto and the Democracy. General Scott defeated' Santa Ana, bet Sam Houston, had done it before blow—More then. that, he has never treen'de reeled on the field or upon the political forum, end he has tried botb s , whereas Seett has yet to take his first lesson In the beienCe of the latter. A Sensible Ghost Coufirmstitin "strong,.. Proofs of Holy*Writ," of the truth of the Siiiritual Rapping*, hoe bees had at Bolton. We learn help the Post that "at the house clone of t • most distieguished spirit wale. a few evenlap Mice. a young lady 1 remit was informed that she ,woold be permitted to sesnverse with the spirit of a male friend. lo whom in this lire she had been betrothed, when is a fal tering voice Shei asked if "Cs was happy." This was answered by mayoral iiimireer,_ rape. isdicatlog that then waa but Coe thirig wasting. vi s: a bon-of.the real Ham._ as Began.'' Itileasiblo Ghost. that; and easily satisfied. We know of some who *mild have added (beret*. Oldie or a whiskey poach—that is, if their ghostly tastes had any of the spirit of this life left. A Legislative Jake. It hie been'ihronicled that the lowa Legislature has passed a bill prollibibiting free negroes coming into that State ceder same penalties; but the Burlington Muc ky@ gives an account of • suoceufal piece of - Waggery to connection with its perfection. that will mike it a nul lity. A Whig member proposed as an iinendaseut that the law iiitoold takeelfect from and after its publication in the lava Erse Democrat. an abolition paper, sad ~tbe majority of both Houses adopted it • without appeciently, perceiving tho power it gays the editor. by cassias to print thibiU. to completely vote it. Ouch. it is presented, will be the aims he will adopt, for the law is 'Maly re.: pageant to the prolamines of hi party. IT Coutplinstidry.—The English member of Perlis meat. Reorge , Thempeoa. it is stated. recently mourited in 1111 addivss it the Tait, of 1.111100, New Yak. as fol lows: "Youticottalry is sot visited by the 'Watt:Udine( Pestilesseset flusdas, but whatis worse. God Ass raised 1101011 upon , you nom Ass dirt' y Amami ropiest Priads." A Chsuisehr a Row.—Tbe Governor •sf this State his written a latter to the Go or of Maryland &bran dies the delivery of • yeast m i r k born in the termer dais. bat the adopting of *Anginas mother. The child. it is autikeded en ow aide. is free Wu. sod ino the nth• Or that it is not. The delivery f. Waled.. Here la a splendid chasms for a row. Itr We would ma be byper-critical; bat it ems to in s pity.tbst wore atteadoo Is sot &so to Ow art of **lain wzr.a.—Gazette. So say we; sad by way of ewawaesemest. to teems ell caw of complaint. the jot** Editor of that paper should tnarakiastaly fet *lbs pantow's.*: • The Ladies Book ut April is before tun ' Wa bay* set date to speak of it as it deserves, bat we sap the embelisbesests urger a superior order; they. amulet be surpassed. The eesdribatent an among the grit Nunes of ;be coustry:. Cr Joh. A. Colhosa. son at Jobs C. Whose. has Mrsi badly bows is •ism Hoodoo Ibr &Immo to dm Soo* Cardiac BWe Coorrostiss. Ho is mooned to hose boom is lbw of BtM. soosoliss. Bound and Prat4icel Views. IThe:Nevr Tort Woks pets NIA some sound and prite . t (cal views in regard to the getrinent lendiog' its aid to orks of Internal improve:matt. It toys in 1830.; Mr. ; eaten in a speech in the Senile of the United 'Pates ileolared that the lelheiselpfli will ' the only iiroper 'chan nel through which the product 4 of the Ohto and Mitosis tippi vanes could resell the lea coast. That it was wild sad !Weeny to expect thiit railways would ever be ecostructrd for that Furore—et if so constractet, :Would hear subserve the purpose - for which they are designed. 4r we nty "leans only have elapsed'aiuce this dogniatie rati hcinationl of the Missouri Senator, and what result. have tore not realized? Within a peCied not exceeding 3 .ears, there will be eoatinetrus.noes of railways or canals from ts ,Ailsntio ea ten or more ditterent routesperforatlng or meeting with the tallies of the Ohio and *seis- Iliing. Massachusetts will have one line terminatlsig in ew York at Ogdeasborgh; Niter York will hare three nes convected by Lake Erie 'with public works of Ohio id !adieus. Pennaylyania will have three lines; Mary land, one) Virginii. tiro; Boa tt taroline. and Giorgia, j a ck one Alabama, • line of , railloed strelehingil from the Laker to the Gulf of klekilie , and rivalling thdl Mis -1 iliseippi almost within sound othe roar of his titighty isters. With the exception e lf the Mobile and Chicago Icoilroftdi all these works will have been consiiinciad ithuut itid from the NationallTreasury at half Ills ex pens. which they would have east the GoverMM.— I piece works will have cont. t wheo all finisheikl over $200,005000. Now. suppose' pie friends and proctors trf these, improvements had' continued to rely; upon loveruseint for the means of i constructing them,;, wuat 'onion or them would now hhve , beets completedil We pensider'the veto of General flackihn on the Maysville rut as Sine of the most fortakate, happy. and behMeent ever eta *high outlawed frott a ;Chief MegisteUte' of he Rep * lie . ilie. It gave an iemolse :to the public :bliOd, hicb h enabled it to ackiieve th. wonderful milks of ;.iiretil I improvement coneintmeited within tllits teat wisely peat.. IL did inns td mats . . excite and 4icrakett he slum ring energies of indomitubls enterpriie'il• than . , i tall the mums improvement harangues of 'demagogues a and out Of Congress put tegetbsir. . , 1 : apressie r e.—Tbe New Teri{ Mirror eays.ige' u kilt returned from Sea Francisco. says ha would hanged lu New Yoik, than 414, a natarlidoath Itlemen j? rather be to Caltf4 ~iii r:rmi• Y wil t a publl ill:on a:r ih lying the seeeee• the crime e burns 1 g 7 pdelphi Doe-qua teauth, MJ3I Dawson seaman is Congress, horst* that • tinted, that-at the ehd of the present fisilitl year e debt of tlis.Unititgl Omit,' will be one Aniwdrsd i qf dollars! So muc for Galphinistn. lady of WssitiogtonititY hu enclosed 013 to l w of W. H. Thompion, eel New York, *pros wild' that, in this solo ewer, other cum.!' • in ore family any nol be 'Confounded _wl 'the la parent,' to the prejUdice Of the forateril This nevokoce. rei cent pieces a U.S.I Mint. The copper, and a l • e • ugh coneidera. 'l+ , : Gold Region of Ndw Gregads4 'anama Echo of Japuary 24 after atinoun. t a party of Amer i cans had left therd. with o work the gold shines in the Proriace of near the town of llievita, nays; , sands of all the riven Chaco, we are. in / are auriferous, and gulches have beeti fOund f , rich with those itiCalifornia. The groes , . gold sand from all the banks of th rivers o Ind Ban Juan, and divers have ught beds of the rivers large pieces of old of .unds weight. They commonly v:a from ounce to an ounce in half a day; they • find pieces ur grains of gold of k and sometimes more .The icing til l , I view Chive,' Provinces of Antiquia and Choco bar • pop- I together, of aboqt 320.090, and their m ines, h . badly sod unidtilfully worked, mince :y $4,000,000 to 85 000,090. All the Greet obluons that we see in circulation here, are om the products of these mines. VI! net- Ike all their race, ' , are a little lazy—the most 1 ous not workin! more than two oil three ' week. Were the work properly condom e is no doubt but they would produce from 1.5 I t,OOO per annum. IGrenadian.Legialature kiss been most Tiber.. , e subject of the Wines. They grant'. to the i i r of a mine,. whether on g torment laid or of idoal, the perigee proper of it. There are eatso on either goldor plat t 111; and fo vigners 'h in the country are exempt from all itnilita i and all lazes rir contributions foi!itwenty here is beside id New Grenada a liperfect to woraLip God-,or not—in any !ay the pidgin. I J ;: Ithe Atlinticside, one may enter Clibco by o, Ind on the Piacific side by. San pan.— cdmine fruit' the Atlantic side mar;go up o gat Carthnifeni, :, those from Patiama Of 'ehtura can in tho or three days reaqh Our amigo up the Sin Juan. ' , • .. 14 W, it•te s litotrrs"l Esivstrn•ivfl—FrhM the Lllowi g which we copy from the St. Louie I Union, itwill ... seen that ono Wotnan it least is dthiermin d the her sett shall no longer submit tert . demi eerin • power of the Plords o creation ! The ext " %roman's alghts:Convetvion" shoal 'ttssem le in :t. Lochs, and this smiablb creature Saint be selecte to preside over Its deliberations: 1= C. • attune • Htlsn•rin....—A female was. s l ereatid este -ay fur taking open het elf the high Peerage. iv* o hipping her lordand master.. It is aitifrange is* a it stands; and will Come out this moihing in videnCe. It appears that the husband walked-borne .o his eastle, which be found closed against! him.— i i e thel knocked, and w!is told from the iirinide by is tel dame,'to go—anywhere.—Not chaining to o snubbed in this wise, he insisted upon th. door being opened, which-hie lady at last did, collibide in and, and a very interesting engagement ensued on he sidewalk; I endipg ig . the thorough anlijogation f the r asculine. The most curiols part of Ibe ro ance is, that en insinuation , has crept iota the tatem nt that a third party,•wearing a bead, was . 13' the oom on the arrital of the husband. ! ' . WELD WostsW,....The Houston irefegoph the capture of the wild woman oft 4 Nevi ilsting to whom ito Much has been pt lklished. rty of hunters wlio were out hunting deer ae- Ily came upon the campofthir singular erea d captured her. line is an African regress, to those wilds when the settlements were just after ruining!' defeat, .and i she has andering like 'mooning outang for a' period It fifteen years. ' i Her food during that peri 'consisted of aiortts, outs tind other wild fruits, ch other food ad she could occasionally steal he neighboring. , settlements. She cannot English. but' converses freely with the son the neighboring plantations. rrhns is the mystery that has hitherto given a roman rest to the story-of,the wild womao iof, the Ta otice a 4, r t say lAN !ident • nre ho 1011.-A very !singular and extra r rdinary' e took 'plane int this - city yesterda The lei Abe happyccou ple made .man and w ife are 1, omits Shores and Mrs. Susan Anderson, united ages number orer one hundred and ears, or seventy leers each. What! is still I !xtraordinary about this yoathfis/ and newly pair, is.that the minister who united than !holy bands of wedlock is the son of the happy • annum (Ind.,) Banner. = hose f.rfy ore rived i'e the hride. A 1 Emma Oxon or BRAI3.—On Saturday, a per -1 in ca led at one of oar Exchange- offices, with a a double, handful of the 'Veal," and asked what they paid Or ounce foraold dust. On being told that the per• varied frTm 815 to 817 per ounce, be con cluded that his must be worth $l7, as it was very fine. While weighing it out, it was closely exam ined by the purchaser, under a suspicion that. it was op.tt olli right. The first touch of the acid betrayed its quelity, which proved to be very fine bras filing's. The seller pleaded ignorance of the cheat, averred that he had received it for the genuine stuff; and was pe rmitted to go at large.—Esiraio Express. IV" We read in a Sheffield that '•the lest , polish tti a *ea of cutlery is arisen by the hand of women." The me may be said ofliaman eutiery,—that "the 1001 P sa lM to a young Wl* is ginn-by his wising itlifinnale seek . . • inow beiattnade it tb Phil. ' t itre three-qoarters sif t er and et the size of a 8p am Six thicker. oeca pound Mr. A. E. Peaaiman, of Philadelphia *minty, has , rephrted a',lttill to the Housa of Representative* which 1 inv9ives a thorough organization of the Board of Canal Commissions, which is to be replaced by a dingle superintendent every three years, invested With all the powers swig uncti ons of the Board as now constituted and empowered to discharge any, , other duties imposed upon bim by the law. The 'l Superititendent is to be sworn or affirmed. and shall give, bond with suffic ient se'curity, in the sum of i 0 0,000. He is to eive his commission front - the Goverpor, and is liable \ to removal by the same - au- , thority on the applicat ionof a majority of both Hou- I see. The Superintendent it to have the exclusive management 4 the public works, and is enabled to appoint for his official rea Superintendent oft motive power on the Columbt railroad, and ou the Allegheny Portage Road ; one upervisor for each rat \ division of the Canal, and Collectors and Weigh mister over all the lines of improvement. His pow. er is restricted by a clause,`preventing the appoint ment of 4 BnDervitior of Rlipairs OD the Columbia railroad, and the Allegheny Portage road. He is further authorized to appoint a Secretary at $l5OO ..- per annum. , The 'ditties of the superintendent are minutely described in the bill. He is to visit each division at least three times every year, and receive from the Superintendent or Supervisor monthly reports, ex i hibning in detail the state of the division or section under his management, the nature of the repairs, the moneys receiverfand expended, with the names of persons to whom such money has seen paid'. and the names and number of every clasp of Nib em ployed oh their respective lines, anti thei ly or weekly salaries. The Superintendent is also re quired to make an annual report to the Legislature of the receipts and expenditures of every line and division, including motive power, and all receipts and expenditures. The bill provides for the establishment of a Rev enue Bureau, who is to appoint competent persons to examlne and compare the rates of tolls, as exhib ited by the Superintendent, in order to arrive at the best means of increasing the revenue from the public works. I Ilis sarary is fixed at $1,500. An Engin eer Bureau is also treated, by the pr i oposed bill, whose duty wil, be to make all the surveys and ex:, ploratious of the works, elitist:lobs of the costs of new works, repairs, and similar matters. His salary is to be $2,000 per annum.—Pittsburgh Post. A New number of Tavern-keepers have lately been prosecuted in Berks county,•fur the vin latiun of the law against shooting-matches. ' 0 . order to overcome the law, they have adOtpl a new plan, which has the advantage of cheapness in its favor arid often affords much amusement. It is cal led wheel-barrow shooting, and la practiced as followsi—A board is planted lengthwise on the ground,' in the same manner as the lower board of a plank fence. Its centre isthen messurettoff, and an upright stick is planted there, to make it perceptible at a distance. The marksmen are stationed fifty yards from the plank, and attar being allowed to take aim, and place their wheelbarrow in what they conceive to be the proper direction, their eyes are securely bandaged, •and they push forward the wheelbarrow towards the mark. Ha'.who comes nearest; it with the wheel; is declared victor. A :CFAs , TRICK.—The Legislature of] Ifli.,ois has passed a law to prohibit the retailing of intoxicating drinks :within that State. At Springfield some genius has hit upon s novel way of supplying his customers with the""rzitter" in defiance of the law. Thus: "Fhe premises consists of a room divided by a parlitilin, into two apartments. Upon entering the first apartment, a square opening, and it is the only one, is discovered several feet from the ground in the partition wall. lm,me.diately befure this open i:4, in the second apartment, a number of glasses libelled-"rum," "gin," '"whiskey," &i.c., stand upon the table, Upon a picayune being dropped into one of these glasses, the table tegins to turn upon its ails, and the time it has made a horizontal revolu tion,4/vthe glass is filled ith the liquor itadicated,and stands in its origin position." - • ' The mayor an . arshal of the city have examined seit"preinises" blusely, without being stile to find any "man, woman or cht44"acting as salesman, or of disiorering the means by which the "table" is turned. And up to the last accounts the thing was in operation. . EUPPOISED News Or Sic Joey Famvstax.--An extra,' published by the Culomba Observvr, contains under,date of Singapore, January -6, the following; "I have it in my power this month to give you later Information of the search which is being pros ecuted for the discovery of Sir J.Tratiklin and his party, than even' the Admiralty itself is yet posses sed of. Her Majest'y's iuneying ship Herald, ar rived here from the Arctic region, via the Slindivich Islands and Hong Kong, during the last week, and she has the latest accounts from the far North.-- Near the extreme stations of the Russian fur Cum pany,;they learned from the natives that a• party , of white nien have been encamped 300 or 400 miles Thvt the Russians have 'Made en attempt to supply them with provisions and necessaries, but that the natives, who are it enmity 'with the Rus sians; have frustrated all ittempte. "NO communication could be Opened with the spot wheri they were slid to be, as a hostile tribe inter vened. From the Esquimau: they had this vague story very satisfactorily confirmed; with the addi tion that the whites .and natives having quarreled, the former had been murdered. As to the possibil ity of these unfortunates being Sir John Franklin's party, I leave you and your readers who have paid attention to the case in all its bearings, to judge.-- Whether these men spoken of Were or were not Sir John's company, little hopes can now be entertained :of finding them alive, as their provisions must have been expended one year ago; and their fuel, which is 'necessary, must have been burned about two years Since." A New Scnewn.—A Washington correspondent of the Everting Part soli that the rumor is that the five or six hundred laborers for the Panama and At lantiO Railway, raised by Col. E. D.ltaker, sod now employed on the route of the Railroad4are in reality en organized band of propagandists of - Anglo-Saxon republicanism., The design attributed to these men embrace the prbject of appropriating the country, after the conclusion of their engagements with the Railroad Company , and the erection nra new Gov erment on the latest and most approved principles. A Townarut. APPEAL.—An old patriot of Read ing offers himself as a 'Candidate for Mayor of that clty,-and'in a card to the "defr people," enumerates among his "claims" that be supported the Ameri can Bag as a volnateer in the military service from 1812 to 1819—that he hes been for sea •iiil year elected constible--that he has been for . 12 years a deacon orthe church-46d that he in fact contribu ted $6O to build the'church. SIiTTLING A DIFTICIILTY.—A boy 18 you, of age was lately 'lmprisoned in the Leverett street jail, &mien, at the suit of a woman on the:shady side of 40. The matter wee- &telly compromised by a marriage, the valiant young man preferring the chains of Hymen to the locks and•bars of the jail...— Thin catching boys 18 years of ago, and• making them`, marry women old enough to be their mothers Is worse than the fugitive slave law..:—Proe. Jo■r. Tau Duero 07 nut °aux.—Lieut., GolJsbor ough, of the U. R. Navy, writes to Proffessor Bache, that during a passage from Rio de Janerio to Sal danba Bay, Cape of Good Hope, being in lat. 28d. 21ma S., and lon. 08d. 17m. W., he sounded and ob tained bottom at the depth of 3,100 fathoms, or titres and 'a half miles: The sounding apparatus, was a tbirty-two pound shot, slung. with wire and attach ed to a small line 5.000 fatboins long, and iiufß ciently• strong to bear a weight of sixty ,pounds. MtIRDIUt •1D LT:win:ie.—Mr. Alex Boors, of Baltimore. was murdered in Curtiaville, California, oo the 25th of January, by a gambler named Brower, whom Boggs was endeavoring to separate from an other man with whom he was Lighting. Tho spec tators were so infuriated by the outrage that they seized the murderer and hung him on a gallows used for slaughtering bears. Mr. Boggs was much es teenied by all who knew him. 07- On Monday last a lad in Boston, named Wil liam Pettingell, was restored to constiousness, after having lain nineteen days in a state of insensibility. The cause was a fall down a long Bight of stairs. While be was insensible be was entirely fed with liquid.. his imitate he will not experience any Prilialient ill egrets frost Isis aceidet. of the Goad Jim& Mims Swerve Ayi.m,c a;NID PsancSrate, sam - Covseanx.—.lllte understand that a tinkle h.. been formed between the rival Companies,' th e e Z known as the "Howland & Alopinwill line," It ; other the "Law line." This noiwestarrangeMest will take place froni the Ist of April n., , ' The line will run from Ibis ciity to Jennies, th, venni' and Chigres; and from Panama to filonte San Francisco and Oregon, senii-moothly. reb There will bean indepeirdant line bctWeen, city and Havana. touching at Charleston and vannah. This arrangement will be of import ues to our Southern cities and will shorten the disni n i, for the passengers front the NV, es much lirne frequently went in calling WIT rleston and Elavtb. nah and waiting for the passeu era and mail. 4 1 The steamers on the Adam' side are the -G eer , Cis, Ohio, Falcon, Cherokee, pire City, Crese e 6 ity, Philadelphia, Cepheus, .two mew eee , , ); a state of great forwardoeu, melting ten first cla ss vessels. - ! On the Pacific there will be thirteen stesmefr, vii: California, Panama, Oregon, Unicorn Carta,. nu, Northerner, Tennesse, ; Republic, Colutnbin, Isthmus, Antelope. Columbia, : and 'Fremont—fpr ming, it is believed the most splendid line of stee. ps era owned by any company. ' ' , The railroad over the Isthmus is going on ripii. ly, and will, it is believed, be Completed by the' . g of January, 1852. •It is expected that, arga T. tion•will be ready for travel by idle Ist of Norem e next. . Under this new arrangement it is expected ;ht average trips from this city to Sao Franeißc o w ; .: be thirty - day., about the time it formerly required l e convey the mail between New York and New Or. lea na.—Xeto York . Commercial . .Lt "Dr- AJIBIERA DONATIONS:The Boston'corresporolOot of the Newinattypori Herald says: "The stun o f twenty thousand dollars has been antiscribed and paid, within - the past few weeks, by the Ututanino in this city, in aid of the Theololtical &boot, is Meadville. soar Lake E•ie, in Pennsylvania. One of the western friends of this institution, H. L11p,.. dekoper, Esq., offered to make a donation of te n thousand dollars, on,condition that the turther,rum of forty thousand wis obtained. Twenty-six thou sand dollars of this- amount has been obtained New-England." 3, a • (Cr The Konoteha (Vt.) Republican notes Ibs commencement of the manufacture of Salt at .the newly Ineated,town of West Columbia, on the 0;0 River, iO Mason cctunty, irk: About 80 barreltart turned out daily. The town. has sprung up rah astonishing raptility, having been in existence lax than two years. it numbers_ eixty-one hnutea, cru foundry, a drishing mill, a sew-toil;, stores: The coal field at West Columbia is hoot to ex t en d over an area back from .the river of an lees than twelve or fifteen hundred acres. The stn. tam is from 4 feet 10 inches to' 61 feet thick. A Company is now engaged in shipping it to Nell, Orleans, where they have contracted to furnish 10,. 000 bushels per week. • PosTic.—We clip the Wowing from an 11;;c1.-Ii paper:— , •For saleat th; Red Store, 200 lbs. at bn ey. To prevent tnistaltea , the subscriber slay u well state thSt • "Like the attribute. °funny it is not waited." 0::pw The Massachusetts House of represents• lives, on Monday. bon very lalge vote, pissecl resolve offering iiio,ooo to any one who wig dison er a remedy for the potstoe rot; the discovery to be tested by a practice of five rears. tr.?' The past winter appears to have been cults mild in Europe. On the Ist of January in Paris the buds of early trees had stifled, and aprierns sere in bloom. In England the weather was uncommy . • mild and the season early. (Er The Mercer Dowsitcral states that more coal shipped from the ShenangoAfiaos this sewn then ho been sent to' market in any one year since the 'peon of the canal.' ANOTHER SCIENTIM 'WONDER' PEPSIN. say artificial Digestive Fluids or Gastric Juire a :el Dyspepsia curer. prepared front Rennet, or the fourth trart o ()Zither directions e directions parOn DeWitt the great Ph) 'okra Chenaiist by J. B. Houghton, ii. D.„ No. 11 Noon Eighth Sam Philadelphia,:ra. This is a truly wonderlta remedy lbr 1 111 , L1el lion, Dyspepiiis, Jaundice. Liver Complaint, Constspata anl Debility, curing after nature's own method , by nature's o n agot the Gastric Juice. See . yenisenserit in another coiumn. A FillA I.I.IONSIGNMENT OF Tllll ABOVE ARTIrI JUST RE EIVCD. ANY) FOR ' SALE BY CARTER ',ROTHE N 0.6. REND itotratl. Alan. by DR. P. ILILL, No. I. BLOCK. • EtRct , t;IOII 4 I 4 .TATICF. 17.-Ma2liam w, Li 3 lk,k of the Vniverealitt Church, on h n lti srlA uiorrow ',Sunday] al the usual hours. • ht.treh trIL MARRIED. At Springfield, on the Gill inst.. by Rev. J. W. 1r.% hems. Mr. ELIL, Thom try.. of Girard, to Mil.s CARO- Luiz. daughter of Hance Fergosen. of Springfield At Springfield, ott the 13th mgt.:. by the same, Mr CHARLES N. .licitcsts. Jr.. to Min POLLY M. PICELTI, both of Girsrd. - On the 13thinst., by Rev. B. Gteff, Mr. Wm. W, DACON. to Miss Mint A. DIGIITOX. all of Erie. DIED. At his risaldenea in Elkerekkon the 14th inst.. Mr. ELI Sen.. aged 81 year)o, 3 months 2Ldscs. On the 61It inst.. after a iirotraeted illness, Mrs SC9O CAUGUCT, consort of Mr. Simnel Caughoy. of Millers's township. Aged 48 years. In Wayne. Mrs. ELIZA. consort of Henry Baxter sod tisimhter of William and f.leanor Gray. in her 34th yr. NEW ADVERTIBEMENTS. New Geode: New Goodell ,T I7ST reeci4cd:by strainer Wisconsin, direct from New Yvk. ..., the first siock of Spring OrensGoods. Am. which wan be *oil cheap for cash. B. CA DW E..i. Erie Mnrent.t. 1531. •45 NEW AN Plaininglitill and Lumber Tard. Oft Siereath St. Lad sir rcrirli. En*. ,CIARTER & BROTHER having purchased one of IVO(nl imp WORTH'S IvraovED PATENT PLANING, T 4 !" , t.t . E" ING and GROPING ill ACEIIINES. as well as the exrjasire nyt: far using the panne in this county. are now prepared to dress lum ber In any of the above forms for all who may see It to fa,orthem with a Call.;The facility with which theysean dress lumber =- tiles thew to put the price so low, which with the superiorind the woikinanehip, offer strop, inducements to House Carpettea and all others who may .be in want of dressed 'bloater to give them at leasta call and examine into the matter themselves Flooring dressed by this Machine is fully. equal to that diens! by hand. both in the 111[100thael• of the surface, and rimers, a we jemts. while it has the advontwe of being of unikrot thi , tan. and width the entire length of the board. requiring no duhmt or leveling to bring the surface even: hence a carpenter wtli ity double the nalnther of squares in a day thes.ed in this 1111thiC , that he can of that dressed by hand. The machine it ....iconstrort ed that they cap dress lumber any Width up to 22 at) thickness upto'd Inches: They also bave.CIREM kR BA MB in operation in eonnerticn with their ahOye. with which they can rip lumber to goy width Cr thickness desired. Also, a very superiot TURNING LATHE.. enablingthern to do any kind of wows requtred House Car peelers Cab inet Makers. Steamboats, etc. They are also preparing toi and intend keeping co hatid lore i slimily • supply of Lustier, especially Whiten oml siding aid Clear Pine. CARTER & BRoTlik.R. Erie. March tn. IF3I. 45 3Dissolution of /Partnership. rriar. Partnership beretoronr cinema between ('aster k Brother I •nd Jacol Knapp uuderthe dram of Carter di Knapp. tn ISP(rtess of minunieturing Linen d 011.8irriarr and rla min; krp ber. ete. has this day been dissolved by Marini torment twoks and account,. are left in the hand. of Carter er. Brot er. fq whom paymept muat be made and by whom all the business rr firm will be settled. CARTRIt Ir. BROTIILi. Erie. Match V, IE3I. JACOB KNAPP. Copartnership Notice. rIOMPTON & DIAVERSTICK bate associated Run 'haat • Mr. L. N. Tibbals under the make of Compton. H i tt erstick & Co. JOHN CuMPTI)•.- H. B. HAVERtaleg. L. N. T1BBAL& Die. March VI, 11FISI REAWVAI6.—The subscribers bare removed their val. to the dcwelatety occupied by R. A. Raker. next door south of 0 , Mom of Smith Jaekoon, wbete we shall be happy to writ upon It: who luny favor um with a call. COMPTON. HAVERSTICK, k co. Erie. March IP3i. • .7111.111 T AMZIIAZ. Or =LEI 1111441110 an NEROODS—Just receives' this evening from Sew 110 ,1 t. W per steamier Wisconsin from Buffalo. a nice rot of Gingham' de Lamp.. Prints Re. which will be sold cheap as the chearrik Please call at the brick store recently occupied by R. A. Bake' , orte door south of d. Jackson. CONiPTON, lIAVERSTICK & Erie. March 41 151. Take Notice!! IT has coitme a great deal of time and expense io try,o,g tc I leca the large amount of Orin" due me, and aome_cd awl" long Hooding. After the let day or April I *hail bc cupric' (reluctantly) to cummence myealls in a legal manner Ern. March it, InSI. H. CADIST.L. ERIE FONNDRY.—Thesishscribeni hat purchwe the interest of Lester, tkonett Mester in the-Lie Furnac e . desire to give name that they will eositiuue to carry list the bou nces in Its vortous branches, onJer the style of SEN li}:TT a co and respectfully solicit a coot nuance of the patronage peretclb,* emended wilts estatdatturent, and of those who MAY a eat 3:Y* thing in their line. PARDON 81.1( EAT. CONRAD DROWN. JR., MATHEW R. BARR._ March Inci, I°sl wromian A3llll TORWASIDDIM : HAVING taken the Ware liaise Oa the Public ea 0 1 ' ORPC aide of State street. recently orettpied by L. It. Tibte I reepectellty solicit 'hereof pabl petronye Mereb,ll, :tett. ' HAHALTERCIIESTEIL M.TVL.