'HE VOLUNTEER. r V 1 ... JoHm 1 B» Bratton; Editor and Proprietor* t As Fedoruj Whiggory, like jta‘'parent, Fkdshai. orvisu, af former days, is fgrovcr Bhifliny Us pbsU tion t in order that it mny. conceal a deformity, or skulk a danger, wo deem U Vdyisable, nt limes, lo recall attention of the public mind to wliat has passed, and is passing, that it may be noted ddvn for future reference. ' ; With this view we call altcnlinn td the remarks which follow, taken from the lust number of that able and most excellent Democratic journal,' tlio ageretown (AM.) Mail. That paper says—We have •con -the ycrilohio deooiidbnls of llio old Federalists, wlio advocated .life lenuro in' (be Presidency and the Senate, discarding the (cachings of their fathers, ■and (lie practices of their early-youth, and raising, a hue and cry againsi Ilia exorcise of that wise, con .creative,and constitutional power, the Presidential veto. Wo have seen (ho ancient advocates of the “ otien and .edition I«ms," courting the favor of the inueßos. Native and Naturalised. , Wc have seen the bitter opponents of the purchase of Louiscnnn, bow ing down before (he giant influence of the yoong Slates, which have grown up, with unprecedented rapidity and vigor, upon the herders of the Ohio and Mississippi, since that glorious outlet for the wealth of their Heaven-favored volley was enquired by (he wisdom and foresight of a Republican President.— We hove seen the men who gave “ aid and comfort", to the British in the war. of 1813,—who proclaimed to the world that they “ would father tee the walls of the Capitol battered do ton, than to tale supplies to carry onan unjust war" who called upon Hie people lltrouglr the press, from the hustings, and seen from the pulpit. to refuse to enlist under the 11 Stare and Stripes,"— who implored the Capitalist net to lend his money to (ho Government of his country, where with to boy food, to sustain, and rifles to arm the gallant defenders of our firesides and our honor,—wc have seen, these men crawl away to escape the indig> I nnnl gsse of a patriotic nation ; and, nfler their sin | had partially-faded from the recollection of tlio pom pie, wo have seen them again relnrn to tho "hunt after place and power " ullciing loud praises of Mr. Madison, whoso capacity they hid ridiculed, and whose honesty they had unscrupulously assailed. Wo have seen these men madly struggle' against Hie I annexation of Texas; and, whoa condemned by the voice of the nation, at the election of 1844, creep nut oflho controversy, end- prepare lo.cliango ground.— Wc have seen them denounce’ the Mexican war as ** God, abhorred. I " —a war of rapine, murder, saern ligo—and then,oh! infamy unfalllonable Iwo have seen those same demagogues cast, aside Clay, and the policy oflho Whig parly, sh'd actually NOMI NATE the hero of that •• God abhorred" war, who hud promulgated no political opinions whatever I Wc have heard them pjodge their "People's Candidate" to 0 strict nntialily between parlies, and promised that he would “prescribe proscription," os he had “ no friends to reward, and no enemies to punish," and yet, at this moment, (ho hungry pack who hTve boon; (to use the strong language of one of their or gans) “ starting far twenty years," arc in full pursuit. Willi open mouths, of the unlucky " Zack," who never ran from the Mexicans,- bin wiibse courage is no match for the tiger ferocity of the Whig ofliee-ocok era! After each a history of Whiggory. commene mg with Us federal parentage, we suppose dor readers will concur with ua in opinion aa to the necessity of making records.. Ton years hence, Daniel Web ster and Thomas Corwin will swear that they were both in favor of the war with Mexico, and only dif. fared with Mr. Polk perliapi.. i„ .ohm few unimpor tant details! Would Wxxster dare apeak of Madi son now, ns ho did thirl/ eight years 7 >lll Webster dare Id speak of Polk, snd hi, adminislra lion ton years hence, as he docs’now V Past expert once warrants ns in saying, " A’oWhat wo say of Webster is folly upplieablo tallio , Wlilgpolilltlbns generally. Now, be it remembered that these men opposed tho annexation of Texas, and the acquisition of California and New Mexico. They gave a greal many wise rontons fpr their opposition, sufficiently so to gull their parly. But, where ore now those reasons? Vanished into thin sir 7 No—no—the true reason yet silently gnaws a t their has rls, though never cxprcsscd-ihcy knew that Texas would be Demncratw, and that Colifornis and Now Mexico would likely follow her example. Tho hardy, on tcrprismg and energetic character,of tho population of those new countries, the nalnreW the products, tlio agricultural and commercial interests of the young States, ail precluded the idea that they could , ever be bound to the car of praseriplite, restrictive, and aristocratic whiggory. They feared that grow | mg power of Democracy in the Senate, which has so often saved the country, and which is now the only barrier between federalism snd the people One of the sign, oflho times, (snd these ere won.i dorful limes, truly.) is the recent m.nifo.(a)i o „ of feeling, exhibited by the English Canadions in lavnr of annexation to the United Slates. It j. well known to our render, that the French population in Caned, have long desired such a result. USf-the sturdy *"“• J' ,n , ior ' hitherto, clang in the throne ofEngland, although ho was most unmercifully cuffed for hl. pains. But of late, Gulf, opinion. .„j limeil. have. it. acorns, undoigone . change; and John Bail, senior, must look oni for trouble. Now suppose th.l the cldc, Bail should kick op 1,1, heeh st this uofillai treason and rebellion of 1,1. offspring Wi " "{• WoW " ""■> the American :"lm or st;..!!, r V* -'th thoyoongaur. s„d help 1 Him, or at leßftt eocoungo him, to votup for Mm-clf. now that ho is offull .ad lawful .go? Wo doubt it -for their sympathies ~0 Eagll.li, their pbllUe.il code is English, end.they have “aided nni comfort, ed England from tho war of 1813 down to the Ore gon treaty. Bat, on the other hand suppose, (which is not wholly improbable) that England estimates tho cost as greater than the profit of her Canadian A Squint AT THE Tariff or’l3—The Notion. Coloni '". »nd prefer, ralher to part with than to fight a) Intelligencer, the principal organ of the admin- for ‘ llo,n ' wl "" then 7 How then will Federalism ietfniion, squints curiously towards a relurn oflhe "° l ' 1,11 |,a ’ l «pericaoo shows that nine tnrifl of M 2, or rather a modification or half war 01,1 "fevery ton Englishmen, who come hero, and measure‘between both. It says : arc naturalized, join the Whig rank, from pride of •“The American .System,’ advocated by the ren ’ i " i " c ' :^': '> “' ul sympathetic aristocracy, our fed- Whig pony, is unquestionably the true policy of !" c,r "'’ d rT «x«s, California and Now'lgexioo, tho country, and it should be tho permnnanl law W 1 r " rffcl llloir »bborcnec of territorial aequr>itlon, wi,h 50m ' 1 modifications. The tariff, ,nd "»l"“sly for fraternising with voumr Mr of 1813 was not a perfect one; that of 181fi is he. Dull, beoauss he is decoded of a genteel llnc.ir.' Ileved to be tho moat Imperfect ore wo ever had land will saiuredlv ...t„,it 1 1.1 . • ■ " * ’ A tarift of duties between the two would operate ! i,iiti„ .„t m 1 d, i r ■•■irnHato with whig respccu benefiojally, proviilcdßho duties be specific, and 1 , 1,1 ? mslnlsm whig principles. Wo shall then by consequence, prevent fraudulent invoices, o r, I 10ar " mnsr ‘ PP" I * •" our sympathy for those who in other words, prevent the foreign shippers from' " rc on *"ged in “ extending the area of freedom,”, establishing onr duties instead of ourselves ,nd ,lm flleries of tho Anglo Saxon rues will ho i‘h'r W.. 1.1 . Willflat duties oonllnuo ml valorem, tho foreign «howod by .very bitter federal slump-.peaker who d,B,or,h# N - v. oare much w,u ' iher we a hi « h ,-- 1 ;: r pondlum ° r w* <’>*»/ N-" that the article in the Nat' ** ) a ? not doubled I 1 s word of .11 these fine thing, was hoard (from whig.) nuncislery of the free sol “ hlt,li B'»'er, dJ M "- C'«-i.iaa, the newly sppoinled Colloclor st il ?°momembored, when our. Texas Anglo Amor- While House.” ' “ 0 «'no from tile Ban F ’«eeisoo, ha. .t.rled for the west,after having ic *" brethren'were struggling for their present so. - | computed hii bonds for *lOO,OOO, and closed Ills sr our ' l J' lvill ' ln ™r happy confederacy ofSlatss. Lei rHaDANViLH Dank,u ntw paper machine ha. 1 o*."? "bh Hie Treasury Department. His D’o people reflect. Let, them make a record oflhe been chartered by the Pennsylvania Legialatute 1 with’,h Un * ° f “ bou ‘ twen o* persons, connected, r* ,, > •• • «“ ld » 10 *'« (blare. rSs-r North B CsaT, 1 : state the marriage contract Is not a. binding e. a Crams... MoKi.sxh, E«,.. for Ih. last f„or year, dueed into the opprepriaticiTbill M In,r °- h ° ■ xa*? —“• * “ 1 taafs fl.tm.tSM, THtTHSpAY, APIUti Ig, 18^9. AGENCY. our authorised Agent for pro. * v V^ i l«oineatB. receiving fliibseritiltons ami making 5,iTf li ?n i . fo s t,,8 4**rie** relunleer, tH hi offlce, N. W ernar of rnlnl and ChcsnuHtreelt, Philadelphia. CokißonoN,—ln oiir l ist we, or our competitor fbrai, wo don*t know wliicli, committed a groat tdundpr in placing (ho name of “Sarlain'a Union Magazine," aa the heading to the notice wo look of the dishonesty o fa certain Mr. Poor, publisher of a Magaainein Philadelphia, called the “ Metropolitan." We have no complaints la make hgoinet “Sartain's Union Magniine.” .We .receive it regularly, and take pleasure in repeating what wo have so frequently eaid before, that we conaider it one oflho beat Mag aiine' published. Our article, therefore, of laat week, headed “ Satlain’a Union Magazine,”, should have appeared under the caption of ■■ Tht Metropolitan," a work which we understand, has, oria about to give np the ghoat, and which is or was published by a gaallamon(l) named Post, whn is about as celebrated for -cheating editors as ia the Goldomelor" .camp of New Yprk, “Signor Jose D’Alveer." Wo are sorry we made so fooliah an error, and make this statement in justice to our friend Sartain. Neatly oor whole edition had been worked off before no noticed tbo error. •. Boon ■«» K Limm Mkuensek.—Wo have re •cited the April number el lliia moot excellent work. Tb. “ Meaiengcr" i. an old and well eatabli.hed p* nodical, deterring tbe aupport of all lovera ofround •olid reading. It i, published at Richmond, Va., bv J. R. rhompaon, E.q„ at $S per annum, in advance. . Ni ICWTILL* 'Fuau Skminart,— By reference tp Another Column it will bo .ecn that the next term of thie popular Seminary wilt commence on the firat of nxel month. The Mi..e. 801 l and R„ nn o, ladiea well-qualified aa Icachere. The Seminary ia eilualed in a pleaaant and healthy part of our co’un trj, and the terms are reasonable. . « late meeting of (he congregation of (he Second Presbyterian Church of this Borough, tbeßer. M. E. Johuston, of Woli.villc, Ohio, nan, by a unanimous vote, tendered the pastorship ofsaid church. Mr. J., we underhand, haa accepted the cell, end will ahorlly lake charge of the congrega tion. He ie spoken of oe a gentleman of fine übili ties. A FBDEa.IL 81, V«Ea N VU.ED. the last few weeks the Federal paper, hare been miking e groat noise concerning what they were pleased to term the •• robbery of the Treasury by Gen. Can." They charged upon Gen. Cass that ho had taken hi. .eat in the late Senate on tha evo nmgof the day of adjournment, for the purpose of entitling himself to the pay and mileage .of the ses sion, which he had demanded and received. This baae .Under was originated by tint noted falsifier, the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia North American"—a fellow who cannot speak the truth if ho even desired to do so. We believed it to be a falsehood when wo first noticed the charge— a malicious sweltering lie, manufactured from the whole cloth, by one who la paid so much a lino for concoct, mg slanders against prominent Democratic States men. This slander has been published and re pub lished in every federal paper of this Stale, from the groat North American down to the smallest country shoot: Wo did not feel it necessary to refer to the matter before, for wo fully believed that the slander would be nailed to the counter by the must positive testimony.. This has been done. The Washington Union publishes the following certificate, which gives n 8.1 contradiction:to the pnblicalion circulated against Gen: Cass: I Qffitt •/ the Secretary of the Senate of the V. State,. V ' Aran/S, 164 D. or n that the lion. Lewis Cass, Senator of the United Stales from Michigan, look his seat in the 3O ° r .® I * rch '“ l - but declined to re «ivo either pay or mileage for the session ending on mat day. Asnsuar Dicmas, Secretary of the Senate. The Harold, of this place, gave publicity to this ▼lie falsehood. We shall see whether our neighbor “ "°* *'' ,n * *e justice to an eminent statesman by publishing the ecrlificsto of Mr. Diekins. the Secretary of the Senate. We shall see. "No Enema, TO Pui.i.,,"_p„,i. m , llc „ „„ h „. iog their hood* chopped off right arrurdy by tbo new Post Master General. Over on. hundred hate elraady been removed in Pennsylvania alone. The following new appointments have been made in this county: Cnmiw/and* f *Wm^^”ibiyil^ o^(i.|^ Powe^', Col. FKUiojrr in> m. Purr—ln tl.o Si. Lm,|. Repubhe.n, of the 30th of M.reb. wo b.eo U.e full delaile oflhe liter .deice. from the parljr of Colonel Fremont, ■ brief telegraphic ihelracl of whieh hi. b«« pobliihed. Th. drat report reeeired. to the «®tclth.t the pin, hid been reduced to inch cure ‘°.|". ,o,ccd »h. de.d bodic. of. petlbn of their eomp.nioni, ii in . menure eon of^bt' 0 ' r t ll " r ” P '“ n " 1 - Mr. King,on, of, p„, y ” P" ,h ' d f«w.rd to obtain .Id for the ramblnder. perl.hed, ,„d th. other. w„. forced to wlu!/ |K>,UO “ ° f h, ‘ ‘° •“■>»'■> ‘heir Cr (h.ltl>. cholera .. rcry b.d in New (Mean. .gain. The week prerioue to lh(> ast|i o|| _ (ho |ntMmen|i in the clljr were 431, of Mrl.icl. 388 weto of cholera. 11 '• "•» eeid lo be allocking ell clauee. 7« e »»®<"> c y oceosidicd by the resignation of u i, Wm * N- , " v, ’" ! * as President Judge of the Nineteenth Judical District,composed of York end Adams counties, has boonfilled by Iheappnjnt menlof Dsttiti, Durkis, Esq. Er — ' or Sura.—Berea or eight three, belong. Inglo eiliiena of Wheeling, eao«ped 4 on Sumloy l.m into Ohio. The oircumalance oanied much eicile. menl, end aetreial ferrymen were arrealed, elurged With (tiding the alivca to eiotpe, Maioa GUrnctt, .n accompllelied officer In the * nJ f««ntly a member of the military : .family of General T.ylbr. left Baltimore for Sen! CONNECTICUT ELECTION., T,,R ?^W^?^l;f K c S^ ES8 * Connecticut d'cele the tint ataggerlng Mow to *1 aylor Federalism! The election for Governor. Members of Congress, Slate Senators anri Representatives, was held in Connecticut on the 2d of April, and the result has been truly grulifyinglo the Democrats. There wore three candidates for Governor—Democratic,'Whig,' and Free Soil—and the Democratic candidate, Col. Seymour, has gained largely in nearly every town. Still there is no election by the people. But the Congressional elections have resulted especially well. In the last Congress thete wore four Whigs, no De. mocrul—now the delegation stands as follows: Ist District. .. D. P,-Waldo, (Democrat.) 2*l “ Waller Booth*. (Dem.) w C. F. Cleveland, (Dem.) • * th Thomas H. Butler, (Whig.) In the Senate, the parlies will be nicely. balanced —there will not be two majority cither way. But the House of Representatives is decidedly Democrat ic, leaving a Democratic majority oh joint ballot— which secures the Democratic ticket for Governor and olhcr Slale officers. The Hartford Times of the 4th speaks with well merited enconium oflhe steadfast Democracy of the State.. That paper says: • “ Such an astounding victory, just after the success so lately gamed by Whlggcry at the Presidential election, is indeed unexampled in political historv.— It shows that llpe pool, roiten fabric of TaVlor Fed eralism is ulrcbdy collapsing and falling to pieces from its own inherent feebleness and rottenness. It I demonstrates, what we have often asserted, that in identity, so fatal to Whiggcry of Taylorism wilh Tylerism. Well did the wofully exclaim, land well may the poor old Couranti in (his honr of doom for Whiggery, dismally re ; ccho, that “ Toy lonamhotnotyel paid Its expanses. 1 ' The people have Indeed administered a most signal and cutting rebuke to that unprincipled and non-committal combination of tho odds and ends of factions, whHi in an - evil day, succeeded In wresting the reins of.the national government from the guidance! of a glorious and . patiiolie administration.” N«xt B«uion«iSeoHoiul Parlies* The Motion Republican has made Iho following analysis ofthd strength of the Administration and opposition parlies in the next'Scnutei showing how frail a -parly support Gcncrol Taylor will have in that body in Slates west of the Alleghenies: WESTERN STATES. EASTERN STATES. Adtn. Opp, Maine, N. Hampshire, Vermont, S Mass.ichusoils, 2 Rhode Island, 2 Ohio, Indiana, 2 Michigan, 2 Wisconsin, 2 Illinois, 2 lowa', ' 2 Missouri, . 2 Kentucky, 2 Arkansas, 2 Tennessee, ' i 1 Mississippi, . 2 Alabama, 2 Louisana, 2 Texas, • 2 Connecticut, 9 New York, 1 1 New Jersey, 1 Delaware, 2 Pennsylvania, 1 ' 1 Maryland, 2 Virginia, 2 N. Carolina, 2 S. Carolina,. Q Georgia 2 Florida, ] 1 18 12 Thus it appears from the whole western country already including, we think, half our population) Gen. Taylor will have but four Senator! to rely upon, and three four are Henry Clay, Tho/nae Corwin, Joacph R. Underwood, and John Bell. It remains to bo seen how mnch aupporl he gets from cither of the three last named. • MILITARY CONVENTION AT HARRISBURG. A meeting of (he soldiers of the last war with Great Britain, of the Indian wara since 1812, and of the tale war with Mexico, wne held at Harrisburg last week,. A permanent organization wna effected, by the formation ofan Association to be called “ The Pennsylvania Legion." Tbo officers consist of a Commandant, Commandcre, Assistant Commanders an Adjutant, a Secretary, and a Quarter Master or Treasurer. The Convention elected the following officers: General Patterson," Commandsnl of the Pennsvl vanu Legion,** J ’ General Cadwaladcr. Lt. Col. Black, Copt.,Small. Cspt. Montgomery, Col. Wynkoop, General P. F. 1 1 Smith, and Lieut. D« J. Unger, “Commanders.** 1 „ Scr ff® a,,t Ah h Lieut. Cochran, Licul, McWilljnm*. £ apl V* enncl * Ca P. l# Lieut. Siccvcr, and lOspt Herron, “ Assistant Commanders.*’ Licul. Robert Koltx, ■■Adjutant." and Private Hen jr7 Wood, ** Quartermaster.” I On motion, the Convention adjourned, to meet on the )4lh of September nc*f, the anniversary of th& surrender of the city of Mexico, at such place as may bo designated by the Commandant. Doandar y of fllloesola* The following is the boundary from ihe law or ganizing this now Territory. It embraces ail the country drained by the Upper MississippU-wo believe Ihe area is about 44,000 square miles; 1 ‘•Thebonndarv of thoneio Territory ofMinoso -1 ■“ ■ riiv «’ r where the line 1 weifto nsl s“" n- rro,M * ‘ha same, running due I west to 95J deg. west longitude by Nicollet's '» a direct lino t„ ,h„ point wher" " O 0!", d '‘“- of longitude crosses the 4Dth par rallel of latlilude; ihence along the boundary of the Uinish pnsessions to Labe Superior; thence B ' o . n J?. ,a,d llno ‘° ,hn northwest corner of thn Slate . of Wisconsin; thence along the boundary of said atato to the Mississippi, and down said river to Inn beginning. was Appropriated lo defray the expen ftps of the Territorial government. SIGNS OF 'rHBJ TJyVXKS.; “Comlnit event* bnrt their Bluuio'y. before I» M Adm. Opp. 4 24 OPENINO OP THB COURT* , April Wrm ; ofthe Court of,Quarter Sessions r oflliiecounly commenced on Monday last.', Although' the criminal business for .this ■ session is- small, the j court-room Wueth'rongcd with spectators, many of ! whom had doubtless been attracted tb town'tb-l ! witness the now organizalion of the court. At the hour Judge Watts look his place on the < Bench, and the clerk read the Governor’s, commls |sibn duly investing him with the authority, &c., of President Jndgeof the district ofCumberland, Perry and Juniata counties. Some preliminary business having then-been transacted, the names of the Grand Jurors were called, ond each, took his place in the box and Was sworn. Judge .Walts then, delivered the following address to the Jury and Bar. It em bodies n.clear and strong definition of the duties of a Juror, with sound and wholesome views of the .administration of justice. The address was listened tp with fixed attention by ail; I CHARGE.TO THE JURY, Otntlemtn of the Grand Jury— The oath which you have just taken is so comprehensive in Us terms «s (o indicate clearly the whole duly of a Grand Juror. « You do swear that you will diligently en quire,and true presentment mu ke, of all such matters und things as shall bo given you in charge, as those things which you shall know to be presentable here —the Commonwealth counsel,your fellows, and your own you will keep secret—you will present no one through hatred, envy, or nulice, nor will yon leave any one unpresenled through fear, favor, affection, gain or any hope thereof, but that you will present oil things truly, as they shall come to your knowledge, to the best of ynur understanding." The first clause of this oath embraces two subjects of presentment—first, that “ which shall be given in your charge;" and second, thatwhich you shall know to bo -presentable hero.” Tho-first includes all such cases as shall be brought to your notice by a direction from the Court, nr by tho ordinary mode of bills of indictment, given to you by the Common wealth's counsel. There ore various act* of Assembly which recog nise the Grand Jury as proper supervisors ofccrtdin public interests. Hor cc. the Court may have occa-1 sionoftento direct you to enquire into the condition i ofyoor public buildings—their fitness for tho purpo-1 see Tor which they were intended—how official | viutaoer with-regard (o .thorn arc discharged—-the propriety'or Appropriating money to tho erection of bridge, and tho like; and whenever ouch direction '• given, ilia', part of your duty to mako tho inquiry und true presentment; upon such presentment, may result further action of tho Court, or the publicity given lo lhe aubjcct of complaint may of itself guffi. cicntly remuve the evil. Bills.of Indictment must always emanate from the Commonwealth’s counsel. Upon him clone rests the duly of furnishing you with the names of such wit nesses as will sustain tho charge as formally laid in the hill. . You have no power to require or compel the attendance of, or examino any witness to testily in any subject, other than'.Kioto wliieh..h.li be named by the Commonwealth's counsel, and whoso names shall ho affixed to the Bill of Indictment; and nny and every Bill sent to you by him, it is your duly to enquire into through tho mediant of tho witnesses which he shall have thus designated. ' "Those things which you shall know to bo pre sentable here," embraces an important part of the duty of a Grand-Juror, and (f rigidly understood and eonscionlioesly performed, the very hcalconaeqnenoce would result from it. To prevent public wrongs is tile prominent feature—the first principle—the whole , ' l, J rct »r ** lc Criminal Law. The punishment which follows conviction is not vengeance, but a . legal act of just necessity to prevent a recurrence of the of. flcnco. Wll.it heller preventive justice could there bo than an universal knowledge ul'lhc fact, thalcve ry member of the community, when summoned ns s Grand Juror, was solemnly sworn to mako a true presentment of oil offences which had come to ids knowledge, and (list ho would conscientiously dis charge that duty? How many felonies and misde meanors - pass unpunished beenqse they havo noi como to the knowledge of on Officer of tho Law—but how few which liiivo not come to tho knowledge of some one Grand Juror? Wo have reason to believe thiil Grand Jorors huvo not been sufficiently mindful of this pari of their duly. - The Law deems il essenlhil In the administration or Justice, that whet transpires during ynur delibe rations should ho kept secret, and vou arc sworn lo tho observance oflh.il Law. “ThoCommonwoalth’s conns. I, ynur own, and your fellows, you shall keep secicl." Thai the motives, language, or actions of a Juror inquiring after truth in ihe administration of Justice should be made common property, and the subject of'suhsequcnl comment or public discussion, would be productive of the most evil.consequences. The Commonwealth's Attorney is the confidential officer and counsel of tho Grand Jury, whom they have ot-nil times a right to consult upon legal ques lions pertaining to the performance of their duties, and whose counsel should be held as sacred as his duly is confidential. Let your deliberations be eon> ..ocd lo Ihe wsils of your own chamber, and let their result only bo luld at tho hur oflhis Court. Frown Upon the man who, either ignorantly or impudently, asks you Id divulge that which you are so solemnly bound to keep secret. With regard to Bills oflndiclmont laid before you, your duty is simple and easy. It is to enquire bv the witnesses, whose names ore affixed lo tho bill, not whether the individual charged is guilty or not guilty, but whether you have such ex parte evidence of guilt before you os will justify his being pul upon Ins (rial; and whenever you ore satisfied of this, by the testimony of one, or two. or more witnesses, the .inquiry should slop, and the bill be endorsed by your foreman, " A true Bill." And if upon the exarm* nation of all the witnesses to tho bill, you nre not 1 satisfied that the evidence Is sufficient lo subject the defendant to a Inal,tho Bill should he endorsed "Not a true Dill." This, however, should never bo done without the examination ofull the witnesses marked to the Bill. fo oil cases of mindomnanor where the Dill is found “not a true bill,** you hare a right to soy whether the prosecutor nr the county shall pay the I costs of prosecution. When parties rosorl to the law, ami choose (ho Criminal Court as the arena in which to fight the bittlc of their evil passions, the Grand , Jury is a very .convenient threshold upon which to [slop the proceeding, al the expense of the parties themselves; the law has little regard.for the feelings or chn motor of such'men,.and nonest sll, except wh **»-public Justice requires to be vindicated. When lha law hoa been violated by the ooromia. ston or an uflunce known to .a Juror, It is his doty, ns wo have already said, to make U known to his follow Jurors, and ihoy, upon the information and through the medium of a presentment, which requires no nthsr form than a simple statement of tho facts, make it known to (ho Court, who. through tho proper officers, will present It again in duo form with tho names of witnesses, for tho octlop of the Grand Jury. Uenti.cn rnof THE Dar j— ln entering into this new j relation towards the D ir, we profess to have the high, esl hopes (hat our efforts to hold the scales and ad minister Die decrees of public justice will bo success ful{ not'booause of any misplaced.confidence in our own ability accurately to iliacorn and firmly to ore. eule Ilia piinciplc. of ilia law, nor bocuuae wo have any claim. In jfreot .uporinrity in being able la dia. patch the business of the community in a manner that will be satisfactory to (honi and agreeable to you. but because wo know that in all the practical operations of a Court and its successful accomplish- I mont of useful purposes, mure depends upon the Bar 1 Ilian upon the Court; in your hands is tho power which we may direct, but cannot control. The con fidonce we feel Is bused upon our knowledge of your .ability |o shed tho light of legal learning upon our path of duly—upon our experience of the purity of purpose and harmony of action by which you have always heretofore been governed, aa well in your business intercourse with each other, as your official communication with the Court. All our efforts ihall bo directed by an eye single to the attainment of Impartial justice—with your aid we cannot fail. D«th or Me. Didlaok. —Tlia pnpera from Ha vnnu, received In Now York by the Creeoonl City, confirm tire report of Iho death of the lion. B. A Bidlnok, the American Churgode Affaires at Bogota! The dale of the occurance la not mentioned. The [ item la taken (Vom La Prnta, publiihed at Bogo ta. Title oonlinns accounts previously received of Mr. B’e. death, which, however, have been anp. posed to be incorrect. Govennoe or MmeioxA.— The lion, Atorander Rainscy hoe accepted the appointment of Governor of the new territory of Mlnoeolo, and wilt leave for the Weal about the let of May. ' Blectibn of. Judges by the People* Th« following is Ihe amendment of the Conslllu . providing fur the election of Judges by tho pco plo.. This is an important change which the next Legislature will have to act upon again, and if'pass, ed, al.lhe sncceddig Stale election, has to receive the sanction nTthe people by a vote upon .it. The mat* ller will be fully discussed before being adopted, but | the sentiment of the. public , already seems to.be largely in fuvdr of. the amendment. We. have no doubt that the'people can choose as good judicial officers as they cun good Governors, who are now entrusted with their appointment, ■■ Besides the greater the responsibility of the elective franchise, the more intelligently it will be exorcised by the people. ' Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representa tives of the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Oeneral Assembly met, That the Constitution of this Commonwealth bo amended in the Second Section , of the Fifth Article, so that it shall read as follows: Tho Judges' of the Supremo Court, of the several | Courts of Common Pleas, and of such other courts of record, as are or shall be established by law, shall be I elected by the qualified electors of theCo'mmon wealth, in the manner following to wit: The. Judges of the Supreme Coiirlby the qualified electors of the Com monwealth at large, the• President Judges of the several Courts of Common Pleas and of such other courts of record as are,-or shall be, .established by faw, and all other judges required to be learned in tho law, by the qualified electors of the respective districts, over which they are to preside or act ns judges, and the Associate Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas by the qualified electors of the coun ties respectively. Tho Judges of the Supremo Court shall hold their offices for the term of fifteen years,,if they shall so behave themselves well, (subject to tho olotment hereinafter provided for. subsequent to the first elec tion.) The President Judges of (he several Courts of Common Pleas and of such other courts of record as sre or shall be established by law, and oil other judyes required to bo learned in the law, shall hold their offices for the term of ten years, if they shall iso long behave themselves well, Tho Associate I Judges of (he Courts of Common Pleas shall hold their offices for the term of five years, if they shall so long behave themselves well, all of whom ahull bo commissioned by (be Governor; bm for any reasona ble cause which shall not be sufficient grounds of impeachment, the Governor shall remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of each branch of tho Legislature. Tl ! e lim cl ? clion «h»II toke place at Iho general , election of this Coinmonweallh, noil after Hie adop: line amendment, and the commissions of all I the Jndgos who miiy be then in office slmll expire on line first Monday of December following, when (ho j I (erma of (he new . Judge* shall commence. Tho per- Isons who shall then bo elected Judges of IheSopreme J Court shall hold- their offices as follows: one of them I for three years; one for six years, one for nine years, one for twelve year* and one for fifteen years, the term of each to bo decided, by lot by the said Judges as soon after the election as convenient, and the re- Jaojt certified by them to the Governor that the com missions may be issued in occnrdance thereto. Tho I Judge whose commission will first expire shall bo Chief Justice during his term, and thereafter each Judge tvhosc commission shall first expire shall in the Chief Justice, and if two or nioro com- I missions shall expire on the. same day the Judges I holding them shall decide by lot which shall be the Chief Justice. Any vacancies happening by death, resignation or otherwise, in any of the said courts, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, to continue till the first. Monday of December succeed ing the next general election. The Judges of (he Supreme Court and the Presidents of the several 1 courts of Common Pleas shall at stated times receive for their service* an adequate compensation, to be nxed by law, which shall not bo diminished during (heir.continuance in office, bnt they shall reccive-no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold any other office of profit under this Commonwealth. The Judges of ■ the Supremo Court during their continuance in office , shall reside within this Commonwealth, and the other I Judges during (heir continuance In office shall rgside 1 within the district or oounty'for which they were re- ( "pcclively elected. | Latest and “tau.xst” from u EI Dorado." (•old hythihmlf peek!.. The Transcript, at Boston, publishes a very yellow letter dated Jon. 26th, re ceived by a gentleman of that oily from his brother*, formerly American Consul at the Sandwich Inlands, but now of S.tn Francisco, and attached to one of the very first commercial hnunes of that place. We have ntsaytd niost of the extraordinary statements of this letter, —but how much (if tho following in dross, and how much pure gold, the intelligent reader is as competent to judge as wc: *• The fact is llie dust comes down from the mines by the peek, pure gold! A bill to day for our table, it ran thuawiso: butler, $1; sausages, $1 per pound; | pork, 25 cents; eggs, 82 a dozen; milk, $1 per boltle; la box o( fine salt, $1; sperm candles, 82 a pound; j raisins, 81 a pound; common lamp oil, 82 a gallon; j bottle of mustard, (half a pound) 82, &c. &c. .'Every vossclthat arrives from the coast brings many pns senders, and reports of everybody cl*o winding up (heir affairs to join in the rush. For (he little unfin- • iahed one story building in which we stay~dining 1 and sleeping in the sumo room—we pay’9l DO. per 1 month. Our cook receives $lOO per month. My 1 washerwoman has condescended to do my washing for 86 per dor.cn. The carpenters employed on our 1 warehouse threaten to leave unices wo Increase their wages above $8 per day. I paid n carlman this eve. ning 872 for two days’ work. Yesterday morning an Indian showed me a specimen of ore intermixed with a stone, weighing live pounds. He sold it for five hundred dollars I To day,some Oregon farmers, who enmo down to'obtain gold, and remained a month at the.mines, offered to sell mo 150 pounds ol gold which they hud collected. Mr. Branon, who hab the establishment for storing and soiling goods ol (lie mines, told mo to .day that seven men took from tho earth, within one hundred yards of his up. per store, thirty three thousand dollars 1 worth of gold in four days; and the gold was weighed by a man In hi« employment. At the dry diggings, one hun dred dollars per day is paid to cooks. The goperal impression is. that from ten to twenty millions will be taken from the mines the earning summer. ‘ it would not surprise mo were it to be ten ihncs that amount. Land throughout Californio has gone up to enormous prioen. The present week Mr. Cross purchased of Cant. Poly a building lot, aay 100 fbet square, on which there was-an Unfinished building, and paid 615,000 fur it. Two years since Captain Poty gave a barrel of rum for It. or rather took U for a debt due fur a barrel of rum. There ia no lot ofo 150 feet square in San Francisco that can be bought for less than three or ten thousand dollars. Towns are being laid out in many points on tho Bay, and lots arc soiling at from fifty to two hundred dollars. The climate, to persona who have resided in the tro. pics, is not agreeable, because it occasionally rains and is at limes quite cold; but.lt is Infinitely superior to Now England; it has had an astonishing effect upon me, and from a shalluw looking akojclon (but not ill) I am getting fat, am running out of my clothes feat. I suppose that in a week or more I shall have to throw them all aside. One thing re markable in this climate la, that every body, at all times, haa a great appetite. r Lumber is very scarce and goes off.lmmcdinlciy • at 6150 per thousand, if seasoned ; andflOO Ifgruen. 1 Hfty ship loads cmild bo sold Immediately, I think I the greatest partoftho lumber used hero will bo sent I from Boston, for labor is too high, and it Is .too small I » ba.lnet. lo allend lo un mill, in Ihi. country. < Tin Choi.iiu on rut Rio Grantr. — The Picayune hue an oilracl from a Idler dated Droioe.JHuroli 34, which le ae followa: ’ I have been to Brownsville, where I found most of the stores closed in consequence of the people having 1011, (earing the cholera. Matamorns Is most awfully afflicted with this malady. I was there three times, out could not soon business man j forty-five'deaths occurred the day I was there, and slaty-one burials , JSJS* 'S'™ jeaterday, otil of a. population of only 7000. Hero the deaths are two or three every day, and we have lost some of our best men. F - and myself were both taken In Brownsville, but im mediately proourred attendance, end are now doing well. I have just learned of the death of the clerk mate end bar-keeper of the steamboat Tom MeKln.’ ncy. bamargo containi3ooo people, and thirty five have been buried there in one day; Inero are only five ’Americana 101 l in the whole place. Moat of oor little population hero hare left or died; No huaineaa doing, and It is uaeleaa to attempt to do ony thing unlif alter tha plague has left. , „ : TUB STATfIS LEGISLATURE* 9 ’*’ Adjourned line die -on'Tuesday night, sj portent faille passed on ihb last day. of the ' . . Im ' From llio Houseprpoeodihge wo uho the fan’' 0 ”" Tlie Senate amendments to the bill ml ~;. °' V " , E ! organization of Courts of Justice, were i,k' ” “ 1,10 file, question boiiig on concurring j n u,„ “P’ moot repealing the Jaw under which th» "" enil. Auditor and Surveyor Generals hold office Mr., Lillie moved to amend the amendment i striking it out, and providing that at the next™ b > election, the people shall elect an Auditor r .“" nu “l ond Surveyor General, who shall servo three ,!" o,ul wlnoli was agreed to without a division. 5 “ r '~ Mr. Swanzweidor offered on amendment i„ .1 bill, providing that offer the first of January IRtn 1 10 Board of Canal Commissioners shall con’si.i J the Auditor General, the State Treasurer, and^» A°f Engineer, who shall be elected on the among T?'' 1 day of October next, and to be. President of the !’ at a salary of $2,500 per annum. oard i After a idiscussion in which Messrs. Felon 1 ini Roberts, Pearce, and R. M. Smith participated h' amendment was negatived. * P lcd » l ' , 8 The remaining amendments were disposed of ilio Houso non«concurred in (he amnnH m ' . made by the Senate, to the bill to revise the Milh | System, and provide for the training of such onlv » shall bo uniformed, * Afternoon Session. —A vole tendering the thank, of the House to the.speaker was passed. * Mr. Bull, Irom iiheSelect Committee, made a »» port upon the subjedt of slavery in .the torriloriei which, on motion, was laid on the table. 1 T, ie Homestead Exemption bill wns passed, as wai also the York Bank bill. ’ ” The, General Revonae bill was then token up ami considered. “ The Robbery of GoTernment Jewels— Bw. ArreitiMXbe Plunder Kecovcreda ' New York, April 5. Henry B. Jones and Philander T. Jones, wn, this afternoon arreslcd, charged with the robberr of the Government %vels. One hundred and twenty diamonds, and one hundred and forly-thm pearls, together with *3OO in gold bars, supposed to have been the scabbord of the sword presented to Com. Biddle by the Emperor of Russia, the gold snuff box, the pint bottle of otto roses, were found buried intho cellar of the house occupied hy Jones, No. 11 Pike street. The parties are now in prison, and will leave for Washington in the morning, in custbdy of officers Smith and Sic- Another I*U of History* It will doubtless bo remembered by our readers that the celebrated letter of General Taylor to Gen. Gaines, was furnished to the N. Y. Expreu by Dr! Bacon, now the responsible editor of the Now York Day Book. From certain remarks contained in that paper, wo infer that Dr. B. corrected and remsed it, so as, ho intimates, to make it (it for publication.—' We extract two paragraphs; The original letter of General Taylor to Gener.l Games, was much worse written than the worm thins over printed with his signature. It afforded conclu. sive evidence, that although he wrote his eelebralcd despatches, somebody must have corrected then before they were despatched. . “If any person deny this, they can be furnished' with exaniples of tbe original uncorrected Enrlirli of the letter, compared with a version or parophtotr given by the editors of the Day Book, whim, General loylor has so promptly claimed as-Ais own.” A Colored Maoistrste.— The Boston Mail stales that Robert Morris, Jr., a colored man, received a commiaaion from Gov. Briggs, on Saturday, as’Jus tice of the Peace for Suffolk county. Tnc Science of SunoEay is making rapid strides towards perfection. A skilful surgeon esn menu- | fuclore a respectable looking nose out or a slice of skin and flesh from the forehead, but Dr. Wildman, of Georgia, has carried Hie science one step forward qnd has made an entire lower lip r or a young lady opt of a slice of the right cheek. The ynong lady had. through an. injudicious administration of calo mel, lost a portion of her lower jaw and the entire lip. She stands, therefore, as a living monument of the ignorance and the skill to bo found in the same profession «< I h«TO no office to All, except In emu of uetuh or resignation*’* Tlie Waoliitiglon correopondcnt of Che New Yolk lYue Sun, says lie hoe rieen letter! from liiolil* re. epccloble citizens of Baton Rogue quoting the above as Genera l Taylor’s worde on starling from home Tor Washington. Poisoned b» ms Wife.— Mr. James Smillior. re "iding near Indianapolis, Ind., died from poisons low days ago, and liis wile has been arrested on the charge of administering it to hini. 2*£nti*fccto, PHILADELPHIA MARKET. April 9,1849. , demand for floor from shippers contimirs limited, with sales of 12U0 bbls. chiefly at 94 31|. including a good brand a shade over that rate. Rye Flour Is steady ot 92 75, with small sales. Corn meal is in modoruie demand at $2 37J per bbl., with sales of 500 bbls. Pcnnu - Grain—the demand for Wheal is yet moderate—sale of 1500 bush, ofgood red sold at 93 a 95 els.. In Rye no change. Corn has been in more request, with sates of 5000 bnehels yellow, at 50 a 53 cts. No. movement In Outs.—■ Whiskey is dull at 19 a 20 cts. in lihds. and bbls. / DIED. ,*mi Mechanteshurg on the 4lh ihst H after a very short illness, Dr. A. 12. Van Hoff, aged 3G years and 20 days. b 3 [ln recording the death of this most estimable man, it is not onr design to indulge In extravagant eulogy. - Yet, while under the influence of (his smict* mg dispensation of an al)*wise Providence, we are confident that nothing nf tnocomplimentary a nature could be said respecting (he amiable qualities and .IcHinjrm.ril. which whole, short life, of Dr. Van. Hoff. Out a few woeki ivo the pieloroofheolth adorned his cheeks, and seernfd to promise him a sojourn of many y o « r . on Alos.Jiow often la It the case that those wj.o iecm to bo possessed of all (he pleasures which health can Vl* whoso appearance seems (o bid defiance to the cold arm of Death, are among (ho first to be come Ms victims? The roscathub began to leave his cheek—disease hud seized upon his vitals and corr od him with a gallop tojlio grave! Thus cm doniinl, “ r " r .° r a / ond " ad "fraction.to huaband, . von„! B Jir Vr" nd . “ valu ' ,d friond - Ho ha. left. rwlT ?’ ? flr ?« ,i °n«l» children, and num.roo. M°" d .f d n re “ 1° ? oarn ,helr Irreparable 10... 'f* SV 1 -W fortitude,reeling" )n the .or. confidence that their lon 1. hi. eternal gain. havft the,r time le All. Ai^rt n .tar o .\?i^L\ l L'huV l aU, al N<,rlh b « , " h _ Thou hail all Uliana for Ihlno own, oh I Death I" Y* m Horr, .though eomparaliroly .peaking, a largo practice in hi. prole.- n, and atood high oa a Buocoaarul practitioner. — MP, „ w "' b p' otcdb r "II «lio know him, and in Ibo Tail of 184 S without an. lolicllalion from him, the people ol thla county efcoiod him lo a seat in the Logiaiaturo. Ho dl.chnrgcd hie dutlea aa a member of Aeecmbiy will, credit to hlmeelf end hie con.tilu ‘ b ' wadH of life ho wea a correct men, dy 0,11,!nd • hol P ln C hand lo thole in need. lUquieseat in pact 1 - B, Carlisle, April 10,1849, Big Spring Adamantine Onnrds. ' i parade at the public house of Mr, Hamitlorf, in Cen- Oourt of Appeal will ho held at tho same time and (dace. Springfield JLlgbt Inflanfryt A PARADE at the public house of Joaeph Stuart* H in Springfield, on Monday the 7th day of May a next, at 10 o'clock A. M. precisely, In summer uniform, properly cquipt for drill. By order of tho Oapt. JOSEPH HOOD, 0. S. April 13, ,1840*
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