M? 2 Fil. Political and General News. 111317 a. DAYS LATER FRO' CAL/NUM ARRWAL OF . THE SIERRA IfZPADA The 6ne new steamer, Sierra Nev?de , Captain J. D'. Wilson of froward k Sun's Stnpire City Line, arrived yesteaday afternoon, from Aspin wall, Navy Bay, via Kingston, Jamaica, with two handred and eighty pissengers, and about $lOO,O OO in gold dust. Tlitt Sierra. Nevada sailed from Nary Bay on the fith' inst., at 6 o'clock, P. x., arrived at Kingston in sixtyi hours,. and left the latter port fur Now York on tht morning of the 10th.. There were no passengers on the Isthmus bound foe sad the competition between the steamers has reduced the rates of fare very much on the other side. The Winfield Scott which arrived on the Si, brought advice. from Chili and Valparaiso to the 20th of March. • An American whale ship, name not stated, - was seized by the convicts, at the Gallipago, Islands. and captain and crew murdered. The convicts then pro ceeded towards Guayaquil, with intention of oppo sing Flores. On the way, they fell in with two ielooners belonging to Flores, and murdered all on board, including the nephew and son-ie-law of Gem Flores.. On one of these vessels they cut the throats of 23 men from ear to ear. of whale ship was afterwards taken possesshieel by a Swedish frigate the convicts pl acei ti• stone, and the vessel anchor ed in the Gitaykleil river. Th e exie wrion of Gen. Flores, it was believed world ' wove a failure, though great excitement pre ettArat Guayaquil. The railroad on the !infante continues in excel"- lent order, and is spokin of highly. It has been opened so as to cut off forty miles of river travel. CAL:roams Leretw i riloca.—By this arrival we have dates from California to the 20th Mare'i, on which day the steamer Tennessee . saileJ from San Francisco. There is nothing important in the news. The abundance of rain has given an intpetus to mining operations, and it is thought that the loss of property *ill /be'mure than counterbalanced by the advantages gained from a sufficient supply of water. The effect wilt be , very' beneficial to agriculture. A large extent of the finest land, parched by the lent drought, was too hard for cultivatioir; now it will. yield readily to the plow, and sate from ruin many a farmer. In some place., where peed was put into the ground, the rain may prove injurious. ( A duel was fought at Centre Cosa (nit the oppo elite side of the bay front San Francisco.) in the 17th Morph between Hon. David C. Broderick, formerly Y., and Judge J. Caleb Smith, son of "Extra- Billy" Smith of Virginia. Mr. Smith had published a latter denouncing his antagonist as n liar, a scoun drel, and blackguard. Hence the duel. The weapons used were Colt's navy revolv'ers; distance twelve paces, the word bring given at the first fire, and the subsequent shots taken at ratr'orn. theft party fired six rounds, J-idge get ring the first fire. After the fir.,t. exchange, Mr. Broder ick's pistol gnt out of order and would not revolie, bat by using Inth hand.. remedied the evil, and con tinued firing. Olio of Mr. Sniiitiv shot struck Mr. Broderick in the right side, cutting away. the fob chaib, and breaking his watch. A part o f the ball week him ne,ar the grout, but did nu: inflict . a se rious. wou • . . This was 01 , ..nnlyshnt that :nal i. fr. ct, lodge gmith declared himself stiziAe-J, and the parties left the ground. Each of the combatants WWI sccompan.iedl by a large number of his friends. The pipers say VW affair "ass conducted with the strictest Order iteldecorum." , ,Broderick, it wll be remembered: is * leading r\o -1 tical aspirant, and one of the defeated candidatei t r the U. S. miate. ,By the Constitution of Ceii rnis, both parties are disfranchised, in consequence s , f their partieipation in the duet. Of course this , occurrence ends Mr. ll.'s po i !itical life for. the presl ent—:another argument probably in favor of the pro- , posed Constitutional Convention. . There seems; to be a good deal of excitement 'in relation to the bill pending in the Legislature ma king binding c pntracts fur Chinese or Cooley labor ers. The mealure has' excited considerable oppo-• sition, - and several public meetings have been held, at which resolutions were passed remonstrating against its {matins. An affray took place at Diamond Springs, in which J. IL, Boss gas severely but not dangerously groun ded. Ile was shot by a hotel-keeper with a pistol, the bald pa.sing through the righs breast and lodg tag in the arm. At TWist's riot, on the South Folk of !fib Yuba tt n man need James ,Stewart, from the state of Pennsylvania, was drowned. . The intellince from the minim districts is of the most env, raging characterr Up to the Al of !larch, the privailkg dry weather retarded mate s ially l'the operations of the miners. Discontent was general„and very many who bad hopelully la bored for two years in throwing up immense piles of golden earth in the dry diggings, -becoming dis couraged with the apparently gloomy prospects bi lore them, were disposing of their .interests at an rininense sacrifice, and returning, to their home' in the Atlantic Suttee, The recent heavy rains, however, changed their circumstances decidly, arid they are now reaping the rich fruits, of their persevering labors. Not on ly have they a present plentiful supoly of water, bat the henry showers on the mountains, promise an abundance for some time to come. Tti4 Shasta Courier sayi_all those places that were deserted for the want of water and now occu pied, are yielding a r;ch return to,the miner fur his hibor. • It is probable thet.during - This inanthithe yield of gold in the vidiuity of Shasta, will be Noel to that of the previous two-months. The fact that the min ers are no* all well supplied with water, is already agreeably fiat in erery.citannel of trade. !►t Parks Bar, the miners are doing well. La bar is in demand at fIS per day, that being the rtd ng prite. At Long Bar diggings which have ,been suttpos ed to be exhausted, aro biing reworked, and from e4 - to $6 per day -is paid to laborers, The spme state of affairs rules at Ousley's Bar. The news from Nevada, Grass Valley, -Rough and Ready, and the surrounding c4untry, represents ro~perous condition of again. t ittikelumne 11111, it is estimated that • over 100,0 . 00 hive been taken out 'inc.?. the voting At eorrs4 Hill, new diggings have been found, v.:,ich are cry rich.. A bill nor Columbia, about four miles from the celebrated Senora Mines, .was lately prospected and a rich rein struck. time short Peace of time ev ery claim was staked oft and the miners are now undermining the hill. Sonic lucky hauls haveheen made. A leimp of gold-bearing (plasm weighing 48 lbs., was taken from the gates lodgeband burnt in the furnace of a blacksinith's shop. It yielded, et en by rdis imperfect process of extraction, 2ilbs. of pure A lump of gold has been taken out of the Wyan dote dry diggings since the late rains, whlCb weigh ed *497 . Iris estimated by experienced miner/ that there cannot have been leas than $2041,000 worth'isT_gold dust %imbed out in and around Moquelnman Hill .thltt tti.e last two weeks. 1:. the vicini:y of Moginelumns tlAl the gainers are is dome pieces sveraginad e5O a day efface L. rein, so ii it said. In the neighborhood of French Gulch a ennipany of se‘ en tneti,4truck a lead in ravine diggings, front %h,ch in fire working days they took out over .40,- Coo. The gold wss very coarse. After having taken out this amount they abandoned thedinitiga; ti.en, other pubes hare gone i.t, end ire aow it a:7.lt.' , 50 ceuis a pan for their labor. " CHIDIR arn Cutosioroax.-- ! The trial of Geo. A. Ilt rlti&•ey for en assault with. knife on Michas' E. liemlv, with intent to kill, was concluded last eve 'Ow:, in the Mitnicipsl Court. The defence was that the assault was committed while the defendant was laboring under WS influence of cblernforet, and therefore he was not accountable. Dr. James was cawed to - testify In the general effect of chloroform un the aysteto. iiidge Wells in charging the; Jury Ntated that when u;,lier an agent of ibis nature or intoxicatiug spirit• wore taken voluntarily, as it sp. neared in this rase; the perS”“ ad to be adjudged just as guilty a any crime committed, as though bet 131.10 Pubstsuce - Leen ' , slid. The jury returned • ‘eird i et of guilty. but reconstuended the prisoner su the rnerc.y ::,e Err. Ljito Shore Railroad. Vie amount of flimsiness thus lir daliaon_the Lake Skew Railroad, *tending from Buffalo to Erie, ep -cmsie the most ainagnine estimate, of Its sueress.!.. Simi idea of *trainees h is destieed to performs may be gathered rum the published statement of its receipts fur the *nth r.f Msecb, which sk as fol lows: Buffalo StAtate Railroad--Passengers, $l4- 571 25; freight, Mail, express, Lc., 97,711) 23; total, 922,300 48. Erie lc, North East Road—Passett geri, $5,722 76: freight, &c., $l,OOO 66; total; $6 ; 723 42. Total receipts on both roads, for passen geri and freight, 929,03 90, or en average of near ly 41,000 per day. This it should be considered was before a dingle lake port wail open, and sixty two mites of mud hetween Erie and Centerville had to baaccomplialby stages. Since th e navigation has opened from rie, the receipts hare laTely in creased, the receiptiron the Buffalo and State Line is one day, fortmah-engers . alone, we learn, memidei $1,1130, and 1,0.16 passengers palsied over the Erie it North East Resdon Thursday last, and the footings for April will probably greatly ex ceed those of the previous month. When it is con sidered that the ohly means of public conveyance between Buffalo aml the great west, previous to the completion of these lines, during the winter months, was furnished by the Ohio Stage ComPany's coach es, which could not accommodate one-twentieth part of the travel .now 'pouring over these iron avenues, a better illustrativo will not be minted of the truth of the aphorism that "railroads make business."— With former facilities for transportation, probably little increase if any over previous )'ears would have been observed in the amount of business going over this route during the same period ? This principle will hold true to an indefinite extent, fur while in crease of facilities fur trausportation brings with it increase of husineir, the latter reacts iipm the for mer, demanding sti)l further accommodation to-keep pace with its wawa. At the inception,of the State Line Road, doubts were by some eittekained of the project as a paying investment, and itiubsequently the bare possibility of the construction] of a parallel waft created in the minis of some who had taken stock feelings of the liveliest terror. iNte have seen the effect of this an ticipation in theichange which wa t s brotig'it about in the line of the , present road, by which near half a million dollars who alcrifieed bY itediiecturs fur the /rake of evoiding;suld.h a Contingenet. The success of, the road thui fST, however, must hare removed the doubts of the, 6/.la-mentioned class, and the same cause, we think,imilst operate to dispose the pubic mind much more' fajorably I owards the construction of anothei line. If the BATA) Et State i.jne Road, which .has beer in full operation' but about two months, under circumstances not the most favorable, is already paying 21 per cent. upon its capital stock, is there a valid ireeson why a parallel line which should obviate th'e disadvantages orthe former route should nut prure a paying investment? A candid investigation of khe subject, ere 'believe, will show that it will. t' The present amoupt of business upon the Lake Shore route is no{ criterion of what it is destined to be hereafter. The gigantic railway system of the West is as yet scarcely commenced. Must of the routes now designed; or in progress will be tributary to the - Lake Shore route. Tne whole travel and commerce of thetal!ey of the Mississippi, as far South as Kentucky, is destined to be turned toward the Lakes and theliceitls the Atlahtib seaboard. The cotton tied tobaceP planters of the eolith are awaken ing to the adva:4aglis of sending "their crops to- a market by the nOrthern route and receiving their goods by the same channel; instead of, heretofore, shipping via Nev Orient:is. Ohio,' Indiana, Wis consin Illinois, are ektending their lines of railway with unclarnpled VaPidity, to all of, which the Lake Shore route will he ak a tunnel connecting with the eastern cities. T,he lknowledge that a !safe and ea sy method of trsnilitl is at all times available through out the winter molottit will induce thrsands to trav el who would otherivise forego the journey. from a dread of the fatigue, and perils which have been previously encountered. We Might adduce much more in favor of the, project, but oUr space will not oerroit. Our objelit iY merely to incite to reflection and investigation.i—Predoxia Crnsbr, As Exa,stet.Thliroa! Vous(' Mes.--In a relent speech in New l'Ork,! Governor Briggs intimated that the United Stater Minister to Great Britian, ' , has, at this moment,3ll the pocket of his vest, the scissors with whie`hi years agog bel.'ntl the coaster, h. cut tape, late, CARO, and ultber articles;" and added, "I would prefer, wearing this emblem of his et.ly toil, to eKin the sword worn by •the 'lran i I Duke.' " 1 INcaeASIS or ant} Llke or Ormat —A correspond ent writes to the lewd York EneniWg Post as fol 00ne idea suggests in one Of yoisr articles is en titled to far greater w fight than a person lush* had -not given particular attention to the subject might supts,se. I refer to the use of opium as a stintu !anti The extent to Which this is Firseticed by peo pleresteemed temperate, even in Isis - country,' is probably one thonsand : tlmes greate , than is gener ally believed. This May at first seem a very ex travagant statement; but a good dell of ineertigs tiotuf this subject lies t led me to this conclusion." Pewee. or Istangstsposi.--A yeti.. since, Elijah Barnes, of Penn. Julie:ll a rattlesnake in his field, ,without any irljory to himself, sod immediately after pint nn his sons waistcoat, both being of one color. lie returned to his house, sod on attempting tobut ton his waistenst, be fnund to his astonishment it was much to mill. His imaginati , Mwas brought to a high pitch. and heliiistsinly conceived the idea that be had been imperceptibly baten:by the snake sad was thus swollen from its 'poison. He grew suddenly very it) and took to his Iled.• The family in great alarm aditconfiusion, summoned three phys icians, and the usualiremedies were prescribed and administered': The Patient, however, grew worse tand worse every minute, until at length his son csme home with his, lather's waistcoat shingling about hit.. The mystery was soon Unfolded, and the patiant being retie% 'ed from imaginsry apprehen 'ions, dismissed his phfsicians and was restored to hes Ith._ . CAPITAL PUNINIIIIIINti t-. PLINNIITLVAPI4.-.41 was stated the other day that a bill had pasted the lower House of the Pennsylvinis Legislature for abolish ing capital punishment In that State. This is nut exactly correct. Tile Plowing are the provisions of the bill: • "ft providn that hereafter no warrant fu r the exe -cation of any convict by hanging shall be issued within one year after the sentence of death shod hare been pulsed: inn that, after that period, if . no circumstances shall hate come to light to render dotibtful the c urectuesst of thp jury ire the mater, the Governor shall then issue his warrant for such execution. Upon the rcittdition'of a verdict of 'fruit y of 'murder in the firstidegree.against any person charged therewith in shy court of this Common wealth, it shall be lawful for the jury to recommend the person convicted oil murder in the first d;gree, to the mercy of the near!, whom the jury so co viet ing shalt recommend shill be sentenced:to undergo an imprisonment in one Of the State penitentiaries, and to be kept in separate or solitary confinement at labor for. a period of uotjlesa than lifteeh nor more r 4 than fifty years." A itsittsatooe Rlicit.4-The tribe Id Caruso., of Brasil, have long hair, hOf coded, rising from the bead a foot, and so tang 10 that combing Is out,of the question. These initural perukes are round, prodigious and °gip—regular ,woolty heitils.‘ Some barber misdionaries'shoulfl be sent out to this race of barbarians. Nowa Doti.—The' incident below, related by the Madison thinner, is lttiwarsbleati4e Ur the indi vidual mentioned and io Wan named Smith wlni lees at ANON+, Is., was one of the 1,41'04.44e:1$ - blown up by the erplosion of the steam er Redstone. Escaping °ablated, he swam ashore and procured some kind or waier craft, with - which he boarded the burning Wreck three time", rescuing from tire and water, fire females and three males; after which be returned tie fourth time but found !nobody on board. Acts lur, self-forgetful heroism [like these are too rare to be homed by unnoticed. • cc?. The Itostun Postpi , les -the weather a sly dig after the following , fashions_ t.F A am roa Aintt..'—..Now clear the snow from your but-beds, shovels walks from the house to the highway, make path!! &with* caul* toga:aited hike the air and browse. and prepare the seed, and torte-foe planting in in care ef a faverside charge in the weather. 1 (Frit `ttleelitti otligeruer. IMMIMM SATURDAY MORNIRG,JI/I!SIGS4.*2 DEMOCRATIC STATS MOBUNATION. FOR CANAL. COMMISSIONER. 'c WM. SEARIGIIT Of Fayette County. Notice to Business Mow A custom has basil infrodnet;4l here. and it has been practiced ontillibes bacons* an anoeyearat. fee tM Edl : tors agf the several papers, te notice Editorially the busi ness of their cumenten. It was first give* ',Mahood)" and without solicitstioa. aod - it has been nonthmed setil maw what was as first extended as • raver by the Editor to hie esstraers. Is claimed by. the csatetner as a right. Ws have 'of ered this jest as long as we can, 'sad now we give pahliti notice that hereafter. whom melt orifices are solicited. we'ehall give thorn, but we shall maks a chary for the seriics jest as a lawyer dries for a plea for • client. An ;Editorial notice. if it Iv of my benefit whatever, is Worthipaying for. If it is of so beeefit, it is not required. This Mine plain that no ems an object—be= aides it is nothing {more than even handed justice. lf we purchase from anti of our dry good denteriadrem for oar lady, it never semis Ida head to threw is a pair of pan taloons feu as. 1t we purchase a half barrel of setar at a grocery. we oe4r get a chest of tei threw* in--if we did th,ers might be: some justice in requiring es to adver tise for $lO per yetr. aid throw $5 or $lO worth of Ed itorial notices is. 117 The Ciaege evidently in a corner, for it is row ing purist. It so4eringly says we are "remarkable for publishing the truth." Perhaps we Cr., but if se. we have yet to be cornered !it s falsehood. given upon "reliable authOrity;" which, "reliable authority" Is translated to t_ . mean "no one in articular and every body is general." When we are can ht in such a corner, we will be "re markable" enough to‘hold our longue. -- ......_____. . Tr We can't say "winter lingers in the lap of Spring.'; bet w e-can say th Spring not only lingers. but lays fist down in the mud. 0, such streets! such streets ! ! ELT We Editor hf the Franklin Advocate and Jounce/ is respectfolly infoimed that the remark it attributes to us, under the head!of "Classic" in his last, is incorrect. We expressed no such determination; and the Editor of the Journal lain do well to procure a pair of leather epee tides to orusiment his leather head. * - Er Butter took a most 51311CCOUIltlibi• fumble fast week —tint into the mud—but from 25 cents a pound down to Mots. We doubt much arbether it will bring more, than 12acur now. 13" cluontons --.. he bill to provide for the publication of the laws of the S to in the newspapers, has been de feated . 13 the Hoot This is glorious: The State is too poor to pay. an besides our giave legislators think, "wherikignoranc• la bliss, 'tie folly to be Wise." U]" There is nntioabtedly "more truth than poetry" this spring in the following epigram we find filitiag about in our eichadges: • Theifirst bird of Spring Arteropted to airagal But ere lie had rounded a oote, Ile deli from the limb— ,a dead bird Nu him— The music bad friz from his thr rat. Honor to Whom Honor is Due. We find the followinz in the last Gazette, and copy it for the purpose of coil-acting the isrers it contains: A bill bail 'passed both brancheiff th e Legislators!. and become law. prescribing the cloth: of voting th.thsreleo• lion of Officers and Directors of the Eno and‘North East Railroad Company. Mr. Walker hail a proviso insestod fixing the Gauge Law beyond cootiageacy or etasies.-- We shall publish the bill hereafter. The reader will perceive that this is another attempt is manofeeure capital for the sinking fortis*. of out astiatlis (1118aisatru , _ .mores 111110 the lams manufactory is 'composed entirely of fiction.+ Ttsii bill. offer which Cie Gazette cackle. like a young pullet over it. first egg. so far trout being the w et Mr. IValketi, ur the proviso being his work. on In en entkely different direction. The bill itsel was written in this city, and first pcosented to the Hasse. All which Walker is wet a member. for considetation.— Whes reed it was not deemed by the members from Philadelphia, satisfactory or explicit ou the su4ect of the Gauge, and on motion of Mr. Hart, friina tam city. postponed. IVben called op again. on motion of Mr. Goasler,-of tits same locality, the "proviso fitt:usg the G tugs Law !Oland conlingency or evasion„"was added, and sa this shape it passed the House. and then the Sen ate. Thus to the watchful care of Philadelphia, and not Mi. Walker, do we owe what is considered so important by the.Gaxedie. With this explanation, the Jastkdaw will not make 'Much from so shallow an attempt to swell on borrowed plumage. - • Er This only thing plenty in mashie& just now is ma pfo sugar and auncriageabla girls. What a awed roptisc tiou.—Erie abutter. CD"')Ve suppose both are valued by the pound in that poodle boron& Give'aa the current prices ut the sugar and the lasses.—•Fredoaiw Censor. Eight emits a pound for sugar. arid to such marriagea ble hechehirs as he of the Censor. tbis "lasses" an be had fur the asking. Iteter there Uu, ia occasion for "bloomers." it has been this spring. Such lots of mud, and such street crossints for wo are biossed : with. haanever been equalled is this "wide wicked World." except-in Darkirk tad To ledo. • 813 Our trued of the Basle "Rough Norm"- is mis taken in milling the Cazsits. of this city. ••a well con domed asentkly.pub 'When at $1 50 per year. in advance." It is a very "Well conducted teeskly." published at that price. ' Er' Oar Whig (needs have • glorious Prospect before them. Fillmore won't go down with the North. the South won't swallow Scott, while Webster. as John - Rsodolph said of Clay, ' , shines and stinks, and stinks and shines like a rotten mackerel by moonlight." from one slattern'. 4; of the Onion to the other. Which will have the honor of being defeated, under these circumstances, is a Prob lems easier started than answered, . Er Oa% Dr OUT exchanges sap. *.one relations with Mexico are decidedly topleaaanX." Vudoulitedly --poor 'relations" arisEenerally so. IT The Editor of the Clarion Denser& cone most pi teously upoe his subeeribens to brie, him nase ••lumber to build an office fence." What the degas be waists an *Nance ion," fet. Wesel is to keep kis devil la to' nigh ts we can't imagine. ET Greeley his a daily:artiele oa tba Coaascticat eke ttou—headed ••iihat , did ill/7 Why 31.31:10 setae /id it. 10"Aa IsenMar.—/i little Meident took place et the Hutchinson concert oe Friday evening last week. wor thy of ti.apeoeit *fa Crulksbank. and the pen of a Dick ens. The Band were performing the ••11hip on Fire.," and when one of the performers throw his voles. like is Ventriloquist ic . to a distant*. sod Ma err of ?e! ere" same swelling up fruin the streets. Ono stew won-knows cithirne, whoe thoughts undoubtedly were far removed from throcente around. end engaged Is the familier eve ry-isyhskelaties of the value of ammo and lets. and other sublunary and combnatablo modem was obserod to out sad listen. andtbon. at the cry was repeated. bounded from his sot and with het is band. and coat tail ha an ma s k with his body. took • • ••diku sheet dew the aisle of the Church for the door. Ho gained It with out autievAtiou; bale he disappeared dime Ik. Otto &bottommost! (blur of WI live hundred Peoplo, and a l . 'ammo that reigned supremo without. folly revealog to him the het that its had bin regularly sold. GP It Is said Lola Host: *hipped a Boats* "lamp. Nitta" tits eallet sight. at Lb. thaw* is that City. Ho pitsiatod 4 *Wog ofdts pas whoa 4114 wasted It oh Sad seasetion!tty.ilatt slapped his Aga Panaylnitia vs. Now York. We pcblioh 'another Mem* so article from the FM; deals Cows. Meth, to tbe Lake ahem Railroad. show. beg that that read Imo Odd. sines Its epeeist. addle rate ofeeme 22 per cost. ea its cost. This is no mesa in• vestment of molter. weed* it; mid while we rejoice that the emerprise is franght with such satisfactory results; we 'cannot refrai• from directiog the attention of the friends of the Setubal and Erie project. and of Penney!. oasis's Jolene*. to the beeriag such Gists ought tallow epos their Wien. We all profess to be deeply anxious for the early completion of the Banbury road: We all say, and say correctly. that it lea truly Pe uniqlvania pro lone—diet; if 'built. It most be bulk with Penns) Innis capital, and by Pennsylvania enterprise! It should there hoe hove dm.festering oars of Posneyivasis legiefatioc.' tad receive the sympathy sod support lot every loyal eit her' of the State. If any advantages loan bs secured to it by legislation. it oerteinly ought to be extemietli If i stock can be made more valeablos if i early coacmorac•- saisi*egaits—ce. moat and completion een he reedited of Ali others. *sett to trios to any areir Whereby sash result is alined st. ear bowl_ approval: Now. it must be seen at • glaCca thstth• - coesectiog lick between the greet system of woofers roads. *Weis ipioad oat all over the seat likor the roots of • tree. *ad ibis "Lake Shore rostA..wirideb. withoot that lick. new pays Siper seat. Would make qt. Sanitary sad Erie railroad stock the beet stock is lb. market. Divert this feeder from a road that already pile 22 per cont. to the Banbury recd. and that project would ne longer be a 'medics pipper, bet would. is a short time. become I "fixed fact." ' It would at ears have vitality. sad imam. a thing of if•-•-• reality. Plow Poonsylvania has the power to inject, this life blood, this vital spark. into die veins of the inanimits carcass of her cwn child. Shall she do itt—or shall she let it flow ea and increase the 22 per cent. now earned by the child if our neighbor, New York, to 44 per seat. A. Pennsyl• vitalise's. deeply anxious for the growth and prosperity of the State=:-as friends of the Sunbury and Erie railroad— we say nutiesitatittey Pennsylvania ought to take ease of her own obild first, ought to provido foe her own how se hold. before she is gramme lo Now7York. or New York companies. The twenty-five miles of railroad between Erie and tb• Ohio line, If the Power to construct it be conferred upon the Sonbur,v, road. will give fo that roed an abiding control over nisch of the trade and travel of the west—it will place in the hands Of a corporation essen tially Pennsylvanian fish power to`nompite euccessfully el Otis poiel. with her more powertaf rival, Now York. Again, it cannot be deojed thht if ibis disposition of of the railroad between Erie and the Ohio boo is not made, that rand will sooner or later fall into the hands, and be subject to the Centrist, of New York interests.— Now, Why should we allow this when we can prevent it? Have New York companies been so titan:el txwards this place that we must nerds sacrifice the interests of our own roads to benefit them? nave we become such prac tical followers of the holy maxim, '•if thy aeigebor smite thee upon one cheek. tarn thou the other also," that we will now, after having been subject to all the abuse which our idheranee to the Gangs Law has drawn down upon us, tern a Sold shoulder upon the Sunbury. the child of our own - begitting? and take to our entbrees our * enemies? For one, we are not prepared (or this. We have nut for goileni neither shall we soon forget, that these New York corporations have been ill;ng, and ars now tr3.llg. to force us to cite them a cootinuoui gangs from Buffaio to Cleveland. We have not forgotten that for this pur pose they have iutroduced into their min Stato• foreign gauge, differing in width from any they ever bemused, and have pertinaciously adhered to the policy. of running it. We hale not forgeten that the N.Yerle and Erie road catered into a solemn compact with citizens of this place to extend their road here, sod then with out cause, not only refused to carry ontyieir contract. but sought to force us into the position of playing "second fiddle" to Dunkirk and Buffalo, These facts are all pertinent to the issue now before oni citizens, for that issue is Arun elderraiii re. Nee York. It we refuse to give our sane 'Con to the Supplement now before the Legislature. gat 'ug to the Seabory road the right to coestran t the link be-. tweitn this and il.e Ohio line, we declare for ,New Itark oo.s.aroor wort corporations, and against oar own State. tied our own corporatioas. V. say to 'Philadelphia in . plain terms, we do not wish a connection with you, unless it is in such a way as to prevent your eonlipeting SUCCIIIig• fu:ly with tour great rival. New• o..is course and we lose—possibly fur ester, and certeinly help delay for a year. the Sunbury road. Rej , ct it. aid dreier° for the suppientsm to its charter now be the Legislature, and we place ourselves in the position, we have so long sought to arrive at, We hold the key in,our own hands to the 'west; and the New York and Erie railroad, and the /New York Central road with their different width of trucks will be compelled, by pore necessity. to maks Elietheir ternsinem.--Id come hers and ciunpete with the Sunbury for a portion of thin business that Will corns poet. jag into our harbor on Ike one bind. and over the rail road from the weal on tbsrother. Again . , neer tan deny that with thts western road in the hands of t he Sunbury company, their mock would become the 11/100 valuable;of any in the market. Now,. is it not to the interest of Erie that this should be sof 'lndividually sod corporately we have subscribed to this stock nearly w million of defiles, and if it heconses neces sary, we ought to subscribe as much more. Will any onwpretend to say that it is not to the intermit of us ail. individually and corporately, that this etock be made as weldable as possible. Would Erie ceenty have so twerib ed to this stock if she heck supposed that it weed not be a paying stock? By no means. Will Eoti county Withdraw her stock now when it is pro ed to make it more valuable ? It cannot birposaihitia m Witt the city do it? Oar city council an too good Inasineas min fur such an act. They are too careful of the pecilniary interests of their constitnentsto be guilty of such W piece of fivan els) folly! What, withdraw the city sod county sub scription because the stock will be mere valuable? But it is useless to argue this question—it is so palpably plain that he who is not swayed by interest cannot hat see that the passage of the supplement now before the Legials tire, and the transfer of the western rived to,the Sunbury company, Is fir the best interest of all concerned, indivi dually and corporately. , Au ounce of Fed, is. * pound if Theory The opponents of the supplement to the 'lechery road here been so bard pressed fir orgornents against it that they. have been compelled to deny the virile of a canny ,or pep. and resort to the declaration that the Sonority Potd, even with a change of gauge .i this, point, would Unveil, - terminate at Cleveland. 'Now, we propose to refute this by facts and The New York and Erie road terminates at Dunkirk, bat it owns a portion of the r oad from there west. Will any :nen pretend to say I that the fact of the New York and Erie wooing the road least or a particle of it, bee Injured Dunkirk—that she has pot grown jest es vapidly as eke wesid. had this read Wet entirely in the bands of an •Indepoodrint company? Now the of the Sunbury reed will be at Erie just exactly as the New York and Erie is at Dunkirk.— The Sunbury and Erie *Melva the read west. end bones will stand 'precisely the same relation te'Erie that the New York sad Erie dims to Deakirk. Again. the New York central roads terminate at Sersio. but they own a porde* of the reed Yrs* Betfale - to the State line. cud hooch 'moralist to thelegio at our oppeueets. our Bar fide frioode ought to hare oppisad their building that m i d biomes it would virtually terinimaie the great' ew York Central reed at Eire es' Clayelaid. Now 'these Eases are precisely sionear te the one under discussion hi E r i e . flay Isere bees tried, cod eir fict from Danitlrk being killed, or Beale tieing rnisod, u our opponents say Erie will he. the Snot has came up from a WPM hod. die to an iscopertastrand rapidly inclinable town, while the ether re isecresisg in wealth and prepulation-unes.am pkid ie the blowy of the west. Erie possesses 'deacon fall On, both of them. said iannictsevailly se ewer Die kirk, me far as harbor facilities are caneereeri. Why then shashl we fear reecho which the fectsime hays al luded terror* are moray imminery. Th• Editor of thl Philad•lghia iffas itsisbee "1111 the mold bad bat ••• asoath. so be mold ; klaa it" If ••atl - th• wield" was empesed of potty ersik f we raid* 6tret gloving a Mad fa cultelf. • 'llire Bid.. ti s alietim:" Se says the Gazette in its ettetaipt to *gee from f latmoey ersopporting last year • *position toot tend the Susquehanna and Erie Railroad to the Ohio lino. and opposing now the same pritilqpi being gtwos to the Sunbury toad; though, in all eendet - swe cahoot awe that it kas soethieded in showing any other sidii to ibis quirstioo than the one exhibited last week. ludeed.wo de not understand tie Gazette, in its article this week, dray's' that it approved . of the bill than—it only alms that / t never approired of it in "broad and de • ed" ternao. la other words, it merely gave the me re a passive ap proved. We are willing the Ga- s should hare the ben efit of this crawl out. bat insist on first reciting a few sentences from its cuWirmis bearing upon the issue. The bifl drat appristriii Om Editorial columns of the GessW. *loaded "le indicate eriginaliey, and wine ,introdocod to th *der'' notice Editorially, with directions to give it "a careful perusal;" and the declaration,' in i subsemeeht paragraph. that "it forms s solemn assertion of State ifftstli and sbnaGl, at least, paeans operatics vital ity." Moat persons would naturally conclude that.undor such circumstances.. the Editor approved of the project; especially as in no part of his ioirodoction to the bill. or his subsequent remarks upon ha character, did Its ex press one word of disapprobatiop of any of its provisions. We certainly were lad to this conclueioa. sad, we were strengthened in our convictions *bets we found, some two or three week' after, a paragraph copied into the Ga zette's editorial columue. from the Chalon Democrat, which, after stating ithat the "Susquehanna and Eria Railroad Company" bad been chartered, mays that "it is under tho latter charter that we expect the ondertak• Mg to go op." This paragraph was copied in a way that plainly indic.ited an eudersement of its language. Again, some four weeks later, we find an Editorial article, head ed in stifle; face," "Saspakenanis maid Erie Rail road." which opetvid thus: " We are gratified to ..saa a disposition evineed.by the Philadelphia papers, as well as the papers alongitha contehtelated route, to agitate dais importent projact." l W hat "important project"? Why the Sesqnetionnt and Erie railroad; and the Gaziithe was "gratified"—bigbly so! And it coma:med. "Our friend of the Clinton (Luck Haven) Democrat promises to do nod entice in the way of drawing attention to, and. ex , .- 1 Citing interest in st; sad we counzsin and •rrt.scn ear cocoas." Now, what was thin, "course." Om Gineite "commends and apprises" so emphatically? We do not know that we can aoswee the question better than by cooing the article itipelt. 'hien' it as. THE SCHIRCRT aau ERIK RRILROAR BROCIL—On Tuesday last the President of the old Railroad Company along with some of the Directors repaired to Farranda. will.. sad, re we hare bees 'stormed. unlisted Lye wiles, of ilia road, saw that a row clods were levelled 'and shingle stuck in, on which was ••writ" the eternal proc lamation to the world of the planting of this "I.ttle acorn" from which "tall oaks" most grow—and tiara the Prem. dent fell hack on Padadelphia. ••7 he Duke of York numbed up the hilt W.ltt In ice ten thowtand men. And turn numbed down agniu." . - The object ul t r ue sudden movement was to save their Charter. which would have expired on the let of June. if no psrt of the walk had been began by.that time. It is a "spasm" of Philadelphia specolatore, we very much fear. Fur fifteen sears that old Company hits done noth ing—oncedhey had to get their breath prolonged by act of Assentli: —and now when they won't make the road theme e lr e s, they are trying to prevent anybody else from ',hiking it. ,1s we belly. some goad friends of the road have been iii/peSt'd upon b 3 slie.plans ancrprejecte of this' Company, we deem it our duty to undeceive them. It will be remembered that the old U. S. Batik owned stock in the Sunbury and Erie Railroad to a coneiders- We• iinount; that the bank failed and the stack was bought up by speentaters fora Jere gong. The owners of this 'tack mutt cling to tine old charter, as ender it Mal' will have a good share in theeroed without investing any capitt•f. Don't every-body—.even • blind mane—see a hat a clog this is to the construction of the road. The Legislature °Hest winter sew it cud chartered a new Company with privileges end inducements under which we believe the route will be finisred. But we must adhere to the new Charter It• will cutlet New York, Ohio and Baltimore Capital. But Philadelphia we. opposed to ii, bought it in the Legialature—arld has not given up the battle ye& The busmen men of Phil adelphia 'Nay be sr.earnest when they pretend friend ship for this great improvement—but we ratherthink her brokers are at work. When has Philadelphia aver taror• Fed aw iettgreomel abtow= owe river med iwi earnwe Is -wet - New York capital huilducihe rsitread up LecomingT. Is not Baltimore cepital building the road front Harrisburg to W.liirimsport. .sow, we want to know drat thu ij lilt an endorse :lie:it and am:royal of the "Smodebanna and Erie Rad road" b.hi in all its mall': and ;hat. too, at thetxpenee of Coe Banbury charter. It d dares •:les milt adhere to the mew charter." and the Gazette is '"gratTled to see", such a "disposition evinced." and “commende and sp. plaudit it." Bat. continues the Gazette, it the close of the article from which we have quoted. beaded "Salve hanpa and Erie Railroad." "Put the ball in motion, i n good earnest"—what ball? Why the Susquehanna and Erie Railroad ball—" Thai is."it adds. "upon a Sem ba sia"--"and then." when upon! the "basis" of the Sus qgehaltne charter. "let it roll on." But. says the Gazette eons. the Beettaohanna and Erie railroad charter war aei "iropracti9bility." sad our grave Senator, Mr. Walkerl procured its passage"through the force of circa mstancers." We presume it was "through the force of circumstances" that the Gazette endorsed it last year, and was "highly gratified to see • disposition evinced to agitate that im portant project." It is "through the force of eircum- Mincing." too. we presume. that it is driven' now to mol lify itillf„ and denounce the very project it has commen ded. "Force of circumstances" is all-powerful with the Gazette. It forces it to bark when Walker barks—to sneeze when Walker sneezes; and to "wire in and wire oat" until its best friends cannot tell— "Whether the oninks" that snakes the tract In ring Bona? *reaming back." Bat the Gazette rtys the Susquehanna bill was en Him practicable" scheme—that it bears the stamp of imprac ttealnlity upon its fees; therefore, although it gives. upon , ci its face the ght to extend to the Ohio line, it in reality was for th purpose of prevenling that very thing. This, as we land land. is the drift of its argument. Let us see 'where • will land the Gazette. Last year it was "gratified to see a disposition evinced by the-Philadelphia mere. as well as the papers along the contemplated route to agitate" the "Susquehanna and Erie Railroad" project—that is. it war "gratified" to see a thing that hid "affixed tolit the stamp of impracticability" agitate& and that; tee. at the expense of the Sunbury road. Last year it "commended and applauded the come" of the Clin ton Democrat in an article Which deelsree the movement made:te save the Sunbury charter to be a "spasm of Phil adelphia speculators," and therefore "we most adhere to the New charter," the "gamut/hat/cm mod Erie" char ter,wbich has"affixed to it the stamp of imprecticability." Truly, the "force of circumstances" has drove the Q • offs into a very small corner; and If we were in its pl • b WO should Consider it a vent uncomfortable nun le thnold Lady's eels, "force •of circumstances," pre sume, has" rendered It canoe, and it is as easy • , such a poeition as cut of it, and there we leave in What is "Reliable Ruth I" This has always been a vexed goes 'on. but the lest 'pazetis solves it to a . demonstratio . Last week it told as it bed been "informed. open retiatrio Wistaeri y. that a gentleman of this city. prominently coonseted with the Avakint Canal Railroad. di/ca l led on • meat occa sion that lithe bill now before the legislature preposiag the extension of the Saabs? , wad Erie Railroad interest to the Ohio Buie Line. should be successful. the Water Lets at the DOckintendint to be set apart for the use of the Sattbary Read. roodld sot Nt heeded." Every bwly wondered who tips 7gentlemsn Proinisestly connected with the Franklin canal Company" could be; sod Wetly sought from the !Miters of the Gazette fa isolation of ths salutary. They' pointed to M. B. Lary. Fog. That gentleman ea upon them and asked for dila "reliable autberity." nd here it is. “The *Wiry had gone the muds of the Omit Ore the epees ofieveral days. useeatradieted. sad we teak it ip and published it epee the authority of** ens its panics /sr twM awry &wig *general." fiJe. "se ea. is pirtioular mid every body in general." st•liattle authority." its - the opinion st the gesstes,— . • se* really glud this ilsesties' Is Mask kr now when ear cateirperary soaks& a stetenseot tspint ** rehab!' isissiositr,•• we shall knew jest hew mach credence is place it pea L. ", linen Dieters : . - - 'who abet te e *. "Th a t Tab, light itt thlt.• market hoo,e" firoimutoi, therCommacial, ha speakiog of the 'propositme is " t the Sunbury Company:oe !•ight to build the road to n ao cel t i o lips , in ordar4 rnahe [a point ag.niust it old yorA. dies the pri,c r Mind. soya!: "i Alfred Kelley of ck, s , lase serrate as Attorney mid Advocate for the tri,,,,,,a.,,,, i hail/ oven the -father of th binding. auk fins b•osi: it to the notice of oar Le gi lelure•" Tito Gawk. ; ,, i toomos. aayat a ..saaaaaa" wait! before th a La italott, last Hamar. oontwilopllaest Vie ra-orgaumttioo of tile Sonb'ory and Eris Corn Y with the Ecoaa aa or .4 chartered rights to the Ohio ifs." When grave d0c.0.., !ilia these, dmagre• who eh 11 decid e ? 1 the new firms which hare we Doges thee of Clark & we. The Samar maud lin of e consdeoce of eti treeing in• the mercainde hatless* ni t ' while Ilia parfoer has me buckles". From this 1 ' perience, are art aura oar r store everything detirahl, look a ea rsorary look eve r found they were ep to tlm verythiog to please the ev e r I VOII3IIO was there. whits obt forgot. Their price, [away the moat economical. [ re this establishment a tail. ind 'all we hart astld,'"' as • tr Paw kosits7LAmOr bola, organised this Eipriyir Metcalf. No. I. Reed Hot this Arm has long anjoyed , t public, having been engage( Isere for a limber' of ye sans& experience in the combination of taste and e fashionable(' will find at •the la the Dry Goode W t heir stock the other day, eqj times in every department ; and adorn the miter maw the practical and useful, wen too, are sash as cannot fait to • If any doubkthis. let them qi sod we are certain they will true as preachin," 1 • ST We should judge by iagtoo Telegrejult, au ilidepei ton stock is oa the rise in that culation. Washingtou city,, .. ..s. s jAcIATO!"—This vas• was very often presets. csd is all ON public places I thus city sword's, after Mr. Maxisom's speech had en delivered Wait don it mean? Ma• Jacinto: Weat elm it signify in couote iii thus with dial speech? 'San llacinto! We du not koala *ay one oli that came, nor 0n .7 piece so eail.d on th. t ,4. of Texas. Sea Jacinto! The swords are on every maids : had as peoPle latter them it is with a loollatksie.fsr:o;;,pienir.atiorav: lisfactioa—let proud tri - Imort coal to tbsi excited by the tali/talc The words! of the grit to be es poirirrfel as thf and a n. .w sprtng has welled up in the p re their tattles Arta been born away upon llt 5413 ilIC:':',11 be the cry;lwbatever • , leasiog to the ear and honeri hle for its --- 'iury and iii and real CM At a IsrA Erie the foil IV/areas Erie Reiir and eounty+ tug west fel in the opens State of Put sign and a power over) it away froti 11. and Eriei New York licsolre4.l bury and El to the - O hio ten Gauge' Wanner as bury end Ea the Tinsitionj end provide{ patty make depots. mi t e hunses. i 0 7110 Z pre The irum ad a of th •nd wher in ikeeity of Erie .0 of this meeting nut koala, theiebti gel interests Iron 'the direction of Ira ; 1 Peunsylvania's over the New Yo nd liosioa.- Ther' That we are in fa, ift radioed the e& tat lee. Provided at b. Laws of this Coro hik it wall advanci ;lie Railroad, will at lef Erie as the ter that the Satilburc 4110 city of Erie the ine shops, tar h J ts „ OON ALERAITR. WALTER 1 . ...1V5TE, Serretari oomis, j 0. If. Ir TV. It'. Li The e i do and'aiib' more egsinsti t he organi rushing into before then* • citement brooders hideous for some the Sunbury and ion of the meetin he Court House s. 101 time el - opening cora. actually bet• Chii:rman rhos h• isiselnied bla isms plating the of ligltted.• Di! mail at *imp 030U1 of a co of the hitter u The whole males on resole ponent. of 0.. me ours! of procedur txtrsine, anJ to Ill) turbulent CilltraeZer bearing in 01. the noisy arid tak,n—other :ee the- resllatien hate filleoiVerl la most emphatic re the course taken, , journment , had be eat of Mr. Galbra Itagaani a ized after an a ad the amend boys. QT CUANG. °limns that associated wit .—lt will bo seep' CAnwrzu n , of CO bun in hieestensiv B Mr. E. A. B asrrr. This Bow joyed an env" ble reputation for proprietor, an the extent 01. his pi nese. bat w e l l •rn that ander thi new impetus ill be given in the are' now recei ing the largest.* this Market largo indeed that 1 q Smeary to in ease, their room rented di. sto room in Brown's N their prowl:Mt anions place of bui op in • short time with Crocker, What indacemienta are there lor4 go to `New Tort when they cais I want at the Empini filtoresi - asil the he new firm a trial. 3:7'Preeident Fillmore', hitter or part of it. is #tildished. It - vet Pacific. eminenlly so; but ye these toeless generally. for they h vs an o' The brat all seia„The send is only action displays it. : 07 We have • a i receiving Notes" - very regal until within a• e,►et, it 'hu "ki •or girt *out." it?" rr A Et ra..—On Thursday I woman c • e off one of the boats , Dock, a went into Berrytnan:s been ' there but a few minutes be, delis red- of a fine bouncing boy, ch d, we understand, am doing well WY Buffalo is still joined relief ii Hive there are those sangiaine *nogg! hien longer than the first of August. New Advertis JOHN B. COO in Staple it Farley Dry Goods. of en) Store In the City. Cheap Suit. NZIAT het W !VP!' .77 a ever broi 'it are invi and prim' SW* -lit, Erie, April et ______ SUN BARI" AND 'RIE;Ii ComPANY.—A special meet*, of the ilsubury and Elbe Railroad epsirmar s day of May. A. D. Mit at It ttelock. A. Front street. t no stairs.) Pirilacie piala, wb 1.0 the C.taiter ta tit be submitted. . - • D. 1... NIP Ca Alf) Diont.s. See', and Trca 'r. • April 21. 1'22. rEnTEZO • OTIO vit male attic provisions dr Ow Ael • I. ad tiny o A. A. WU. ineorpornit Association, the undersigned. 'Conitniaril Mt. will open book+ for rulnicriptloinis so tII Corporation nt the Reading loons In Erie day o f Siny next. at 10 o'clock A. kt.. of Mai Raman James Lytle. Jame* llopkingea. H. Williams. iehlei Towner. O. 11:11.o4. VI Y.Blarrett. Wilson Laird, James noespix T. Neiman. Rrie. Apra 21. MI. _ • NOTIOXI. rivir Subscriber having resiicseed DOolks "OS S. M. Smith Esq. Erie. A s YJ, ItSl. PAP= • CON LAMM lot eta Paper hithee• .11. the%tepid newest designs. which Ihe o • tele et • April it, NFL N. H. liar*/ Style of Honsetu litas be Arta $4.- 'e rollout: from the WWI Ideut paper, that the Hots tempo of Presidential ape Meeting or Oil CIU/1.14 of Von wai adopted the Sunbury and lauve to (Alf 10 . /1 , 1 the road extend• the Ohio State line Pl:en:d e rented and held in the preventAg other and for. er;teisittz a thainnerans e and travPl:•nd turning at filhwa3 the Swn!. -ra dreads to r chi ctt: es if, fore. • or of retails an the Snn• ul of the route Irons E. done. atihteet to the ew• nonwealtn, and la Buck tho interests of I%e Sal -1 the earns gl'no 111. k Ti 11.14 • loot off` that great work, nd Erie Railroatr. m . liniment location 1 . , , r OPell and freight wars 11,ES MILES, Neil. Vice Vres'ts 'who have beets 'mica; ewe past with their els is stipple - mew, secured ' on allonday higth mo forty man and no's( pottage here, trod nom.; e the house hres halt r ored by :tivi"eiarr eit, itration the sattinuti‘ !'ors corn?osedOnttrelv Ure 13 •1t1e5:.,16 was coarse i;:d ore?. c:l.z •us d•etzu.ird rrth left btfere the lrotc was of Mr. Its'bbti; staid fIEM the rnectin re-orgia dechired anti ildept rth, which is i:sien • y our advertising gol .Empire Stores, hss tnerc3talle bestow. 'a has heretofore ea• the enterpr,si of this ' e Emperor of Japan. frieadty, of course l. tate papers are tal - ide and inside face. Ito be looked at when ,o ''Rough I • Burs •ak; lett ' bat hail rly. how- become of German he Public he hsd net was safely , i a you ring at on she Both oer and It we be- thot to thiu it will not ments. the GlValtst rawly PAPZEIL t. Mar the berm and ut of WALL rArEft market. Purchasers and examine quaint' . Brawn's New Howl. 'RIJN k eLOAN• amorta alit to th td w cal ,r al NO, ROAD fluxkholders or the ll he held on the MA M., at No. MI South t the Idle supipitmen% I • Prets:4ent. reaorriblr reseE the the •• Er City Hall nen, n ,wed In !aid enpsial mock °furl of ThrsdaY the sth stay • Joseph ClaTt J. I Arbuckle. 30 1 . u.Euitb Jacksoll. 8. •urgh. bar ,4t his VICIONSON. d Borderida. AU of at great 1111011. mt. J. B. COOKS. ao .dat J. COOKII•