its®*, JSplTOtt.:-:-1 bo p*RB*W,&C?P ill'll.; llbe &w'L'og r .qupition, .wbiqh ap r Jrt.jho jiit-t issmi of ypiir paper, has. [qifio ipe.'ihe idea ei'..pile ring to the *jil»rpygh the same., medium, sc.tuo _ . jf. tli@ subject which’p/ay pot be und v. hicl) nmy lend adjustrnonf, in a legal manner, .of the difficulties and injuries, so graphically in \he article alluded to. " y ( tff.iiy no means provable; (hot i|)o presept.legislatu ro cuu : be induced to en- a BilV us would bo requisite to flgoVf'fldequnte prot cctlon t 0 l| io lumber our ppunty. The, passage of u dcgcripUoi), haying for its end of Uie so-cajled rights o| the jggojjp&ers, vyould meet .tfctP. •PdS* atrenu f imposition pf what ,|iqs been lurcibly igjjytedihb Third House Assem , jOnd it is unfortunately for the credit /qf t Ottr State, but too notorious* that a well, organized and well-paid mnjo r ‘ i y of the 7«iid .Third Hoyse, can prevent tho pas eage ofuny Bill which may bp.brought be fore the legijipiate branches of jbo by.v> ftwkiog pbwer. i LitiJe hope of » lion.of our rights, or of redress for our iivwngs, from any such source, can bo roa-, flpjjably .indulged. •nAflOther method which has boenattempt- Jld*.flOJ>template6 the arrest of those enga ged ip the.business of floating loose logs, the.ground of their being perpetrators £lf ,'ft .common nuisance. As this phase of the subject will no doubt bo submitted d&Jhfe decision of tlio proper tribunal, I jsMlnqt'vehtu’ro, to express an opipion up 4)ndt, further than merely to udvert id the that no decision which maybe tprdQOuncedin a.case of nuisance, founded yipod. the floating of Jogsj can bo consider ed a? n termipation of the difficulty. Each taonvictioQ would meet only' the cirdum i Ataddes of the particular oasaon trial, and! dh# parties engaged in 'the traffics might ea ■mjy <£uke such' arrangementii as would enaiHe them to avoid tho risk ofconviCtion jliftder the precedents, while carrying on offensivepursuit as* briskly as before. Ifdnsji be doubled, too, from what has oT ■rtedy Occurred, whether this mode of re dress might not bo rendered ineffectual, •by r Uwr’tiplbvdrabte disposition of certain ofahepublic officers. «! "JlJie dbject of this cdmmnhication is to to the notico of thoso interested, tho *wo*ial«oi«f the act of Assembly of 1912 in regferd-to lumber found floating in the SdstjUßtatnin apd its branches ; and to of ffer Some reasons for believing that under bMuNtCtya complete and perfect remedy for the evils under which our trading pop- SHion now suffers, is afforded. Ido not ppOW,that the expediency of acting uri cdsr thia' law has not been presented fro tjtftotly, to tho miads of those affected by •thMpjOTilsy but So far as I ani informed, Sit {fruiftirefl to determine the question in iSifltode, have ever been taken. An ex ndfpiQOtiOn' of the law, and of'the decisions .Upon it, will show that its provisions are -jwffidenily extensive and well-defined, to lAlbtetfibse concerned to give a final blow bf the floaters, ‘ • s '* r TßS»acrflfiei2 gives to any or! vpergons, the r igjfit' to „lnkp up **afiylogs, *shingle-bolts, boards or lumber of 'wy liind, 'which dtay jfcip? been, or may 'os put pilQ tlie tiyer 'Susquehanna, or ei- • thtrdf its'branches.'' ' ,;*Tbis authority fs to,be exercised under ,/hefpl|owing conditions : Tho person so ft up, sfialjwithin thirty days tliero rJP%i>°dgea list of the lumber so taken! ,HRby.hjm. describing the number,quality. the lumber, with the marks imatlie same,. with the nearest justice of ffwptaee, .who is therefore required.to en ter the said list upon his docket, and to -‘isniMst 'cbpy.tif it to be published for three in a weekly pnpor of the county I ijWbercin such lumber wus taken up; and if within three months after such publcin iJipOVthelumber so described slinll not bo tyapiaimed by the owner, or same person by him, it slmll- become forfeit to, and the property of, tho person who ojwmtdken it up. f; the .owner of sail lumber shall desire ‘!to reclaim It, bo shall, before regaining thereof, pay to the person who ■Wayhave taken it uo, the sum of six cents cior every fog, one cent for every shingle tolt, -provided the number so taken up •utou exceed fifty, the sum of fifteen cts. every hundred feet of boards, as also .ItbCtasts of advertising the same, and the Kite#* 16 be filmrged by the justice ; upon •ijftjlllipllatice with the terms, it is made the iho person who has taken up the '•'tCntber to re-deliver it to the proper ow •ilpeil. - ■ - - ■ -v. aro provisions contained in ‘itHfiJthk and second sections of the act of I8l2; : Tiio third section enacts certain pCnftltibifbgajhst' thoso who shall take up ■' lumber, without pursuing tho directions of ‘-the'pfecedin^-sections. ‘■ -This Statute has never been repealed. • vThe'Charters'of the several Boom compa nies do not, explicitly, or by Implication, •interfere 'with it. The supposition- that ‘ |b6V do limit its operation ; can only arise from* aft inference, for there- is no'word or phrase in-ahy of those acts ‘ which can >; ‘hto the argument, tnnt they ?$?• Aqd the-inference ?“•* fail, for there is no rule C l earl y >culed, than that which powers of corporations, strict am tefms qf tjie statute coaling r-leaviog.out of sight what u r p term, of corporations, which can jS9 ?!*'« Present ques-1 I)®accorded. to the Bupm] 9.K XPry.puture, ifjeh-'. tojM.iW l Ml 8 T.'ChJs conferred upon nlj fljSJfPft? W;*W i§l2,with; thp ox- thatdor the purpose'qf facilitating —v lo companies are nllow . apd mairitajn,piprs, and boptp 9 - ““tegpjwjlifi insthpir.purr fi.tld-.th9 nets of in-. corpon»iiQn,9f t|tese. companies, are ,c<)n» df Bimilar effect, both being Heating in the liver is in dungerof dest ruc tion, und-tliui it is expedient to it .from risk. K . ivj ■ 1 I an impression prevails, ! that I lie'•charters of/theso compf(nies,;im*’ ipai.r.tlib authority 19 take op lumber, yust ,ed’‘by tho uut of 1812, but l believe such an impression tq be founded upon un erro neous construction of the law. To enter inio uii elaborate discussion of this point woujii: occupy'top rnu6h;,qf [ yppr g|iace, uml 1 shall udduco but one laci, ip support of tlio positionT have assumed. | In a caso reported in th 6 4th voluqje of VVatt’s Report, jt was decided.: That lum ber, whieli had gone udrift, anil lodged up on tifl island in thb'Susquehunna river, was not subject to the provisions of iho act of 18*12; iliut act being hold only to apply to luinbor taken up' while floating in the river. But by an act passed so late as April 20,1853, it is provided, that lumber lodging upon ,un island in ihe Susquona.n ha\mdy lie taken up in the same mannerj and upder tho same terrps as it directed by the act of tho 20ilV March, 1812, to which the act of 1853 is declared to be a supple, meat. Here, then, is a legislative enact ment, subsequent to tho' incorporation of | the Boom companies, which established | tho fact,—-not perhaps by express words, but by an inference >vhicf> must bo dqem-l led cunclusivo—tliut the act oflBl2 is re- J garded, by tho body winch passed it, ns, still in full life, force, uud vigor. j I Now, Mr. fcjditor, if tho pf this j (.county; iptere§te<j in the suppression of the | floatjng.pf loose logs, shall determino to I ayaii- thems'elves of the provisions of this J law, jt ’will requre no phrophot’s eye to' foresee the very speedy IcrminaliQn of the whole system. Supposing tho views 1 cf.tho law I. have taken, .to be correct,:—! an aciiou upon them would soon put that ( question, one. way or tho oilier, complete- j ly at rest,—this community Ims the power i undcf the protection of the law, to abolish! a practice which, year after year, is break-j iDg upon our trade, with a progressive force which threatens, at no very distant; period, wholly to destroy it. VVlmt is re quired, is a prompt, vigorous, and deter mined effort to ascertain the opinion of the courts, and if that prove favorable, the same promptitude, vigor, and determina tion will make a saw log an object ns rare ly to be seen, in our streams, as the cele brated sea-serpent. 1 do not presume to indicate a modo in which the suggestions I have advanced, may bo carried into effect. If they have any weight, the proper stops will readily ocour to those familliar with the manner of carrying on tho obnoxious traffic.— This article has. already far transcended the limits originullv assigned to it, tind I close it, expressing tho hope, that it may not.prpve wholly valueless, as on attempt to point out one possible method of settling this vexed question. B. Clearfield; Feb. 14, 1854. PROCEEDINGS OF COURT. • Tiio Court was in session the whole week—the following causes were the on ly caused on tile trial list which were'dis posed of this w eek, nil the rest ha ving been continued. Jonathan' Pierce's heirs vs. David Mi chaels—Ejectment for 50 acres of land in Chest township—Judgment for Plaintiff— Wallace for PlaihtiSs. Barrett, Halo & Crans for Defendant;. :! ■/' Thompson & Eaglajman vs. Reed, Mc- Cullough & Robertson. Ejectment for John Jones survey. Judgement for Plain tiffs. Barrett, Crans, Hale & Cuttle for j Plaintiffs. AVallace for Defendunts. ■ Augustin McClain vs. William H. Hen derson—Scire Facias Sur mechanic’s lien. Judgment Tor Plaintiff—B32o. Barrett & Crans for Plaintiff. Wallace & Linn for Defendant. In the Quarter Sessions—John Hall, charged with un assault and batleryon William Housler, was convicted and sen tenced to pay n fine of §5, and costa of prosecution. Crans for Commonwealth. Gordon for defence. George W. Condo, was convicted of an assault on J. H.- Gnler, a constable whilst in discharge of his duty, hnd sentenced to pay a find of $lO, and costs. Craps & Wallace for Commonwealth. Swoopefor Defence. Thomas Biers, charged with an assault arid battery on f. L. Barret, was convic ted and sentenced to pny a fine of @1 and costs. The prosecutor requested the Court to impose a jight finel Wallace & Crons for Commonwealth. Hale McEnally (or Defence. Charles & Philip Blanchard, were con victed of ti huikance, and motion in arrest of Judgment made. They-had thrown a large number of loose saw logs into the Moshunnon creek, which it is alleged on the part of the prosecution obstruct the highway! When the verdict was render ed, the feelings dr the people in the Court house Vyas shown by clapping':of hands and stamping of feet. Wallace, Barrett, Lirtn, Swoope d^Cuttle conducted the pros ecution. Hale, Smith-& Gordon for de fence. '‘ . The Grand Jury fuundalrue bill against! William McAlea, -William Morgun, and' John McGhucy, chargedwith the murder 1 of Richard Conklin. The bill was- not ! presented'until Thursday evening; a few! minutes before, the Jury wefe empannelled ' in the case against O & P. Blanchard,| which occupied so much limp that the homicide cose hud to be held over until next 1 ! court. . .; .. "I VWo understand that :hq Grand Jury also, found 10. true bills-against persons, i engaged in log floating, charging, them • with nuisance, alsoSdyerul bills for assault, and that ihey presented, Hoyt’s, Shaw’s,' Irwip’s, Brush.and:Ringgold dams as ob • structioiis. ; ; \ < Thos.: J<-. MqCullougb, ;Elmore S. Dun dee,.of this plage, and Benj.F.Luca?,Esq., of Brboksillei. were admitted to practkJeln ; thp.4sver«l?courtS;of Glearfietd.' : - ; -; ; 4 S' CLEARFIELD-, MARCH li 1854. Fob Govkunoh* : yyiLLiAM picLjEK. .y : - Oirlu con fomiity with the wishes of the Democracy of our county, asexprosuodat tho Pempcrutir. meeting of lust . week, wo this week, hoist to outmostfcdodthe name of our Ibrruor fellow citizen and present .efficient jSxeculive, Wii. Bioleb,'us the Democratic candidate' for Governor, there to reinuin, we trust, Until tljo'day^of buttle and of victory shall arriyc. ' OCrWo have several cpmjnunicntjons on hand which shull bo examined .und properly disposed yf noxt week. thoeffort whichJidS of lath been secretely making by some fow individuals in and about town to prevent the further circulation of tho Republican, and in fact to curtail if possible our pres ent list, wo are happy to inform our road ors tlrnta court has not passed within tho last two years at least, at which so many names? have hcen ndi}cd to our list, or so many dollars fouhd their way into our pookots. Our pile Ims accumulated suffi ciently to enable us to £ny off our old pa per bill and enough left to lay in a supply for the future. We arc thus encouraged to renew our exertions, and if possible moke the Republican doubly intcr-esting to our readers. ! “iJeso/uwf.That we will ever resist sec- j jtnrian intermeddling with politics or polit- j Jical institutions, come from what source it; imay—religious freedom being tlto great, ■corner-stopc of American civilization,” j ! The above resolution appears among the proceedings of tho Native Meeting held at Curwensvillo on the 4th of February, and i published in our paper of the 15th. It j breathes tho true spirit of republicanism.! : Wo subscribe toil in every part —and ifj tho whole history of Nativism, and other! resolutions adopted at this same meeting, did not show their hipocrucy, such false declarations might deceive tho confiding. But tho third resolution following theabove | j denounces Gov. Bigler forappointing Judge Campbell to office, “after he was repudi ! ated and rejected by the people. Why' ' was he ‘rejected V Judge Campbell was 1 ;a candidate on the Democratic ticket for | Supreme Judge. 3omo or his porsonalf enemies in Philadelphia, failing in their efi-1 forts' to injure him in an honest, open, man* j ly manner, sent out secret circulars on the i eve of tho election, addressed to ministers' of the Qosptl chiefly charging him with] bbing a Catholic, and appealing to their ] “ sectarian” prejudices to aid in his defeat... In our own county wo well remember that I nt least two of these Reverend gentlemen • spurned the base trick, and exposed it to; the democrats at once. But tho tricksters] succeeded, and that by tho influence of! this ‘sectarian intermeddling with politics’! ] which these natives so pointedly, yet soj hypocritically, denounce, Judge Campbell! ' was defeated. Gov. Bigler, believing “re- j ligious freedom to be the great corner-stone' of American civilization,” and knowing! that his defeat was not a fair expression ] of the will of the people, but the re-; suit of a cunning trick of u fow po litical demagogues of Philadelphia, uppoin i ted . him, not to the oflico for which he was a candidate and defeated,"but as Attorney General of the State. He thus performed a rightious act, and as far as lay in his! power,-redeemed the Democratic party] of Pennsylvania from the imputation of haying repudiated the great principle that acknowledges/*religious freedom to.be the great corner-stone of American civiliza tion.”- ' ; If these natives are in favor of religious freedom, why do they, persist in their de jnunciations of Judge Campbell. He is no foreigner, but a native born citizen of our own Stutc, to which his father emigrated when a mere boy, and would therefore bo a voter, even under the 21 years platform ! of nativism, of some 30 years standing, j Resolved, That James Campbell by his lappointment, has demonstrated his’ utter j unfitness for the office of Post Master- Gen eral/' The above is the last of tho resolves of , the Curwensyillo native meeting. We , wish, they would be more explicit. Judge Campbell has made abme thousands of ap pointments. Which'' ; one do they allude to ? If they ulludo to.the P, M. at this pjace, they must excuse us for telling them that they ure not the proper judges in that case, and that the people of Clearfield and vicinity can moke known their own grie vances, if they hsvp any. . .. . But, from a faint recollection of the con; test for Post Master at Curwensville, wo rather suspect that this thrust is inkClded for that good old steadfast Democrat, Sqm ! Way, and; if. so we hope and belipve he j will survive the shock/ , At .all events, g9ritleroen, you wquld obiige us ond ’he public.and do yourselvesVno,discredit, by b eing more explicit. l '’ - m -i 1 OCrQourt beiogconvenedhere last week, and persons being present from every .efcc*, lion of the county, the. usual number and \n frict more than'the uslmlnumborpfpubv die- meetings ItfcrS* jielSL s ' l :j ;| On alio tiid! temperance causo assembled in the Court House, and several short but eloquent and appropriate addresses wore delivered. „ •On-Tuesday evening, as is customary, the Democracy of Clearfield county met bt the Court Houso, and nftor being prop erly organized, the Hon. James L. Gillifl and Byron D. Hamlin, Esq., wore appoint ed JQelegatos to the Bth of March Conven tion, unanimously instructed to support our present worthy Executive, Wm. Bio 'tnii, for Governor,. • Tho meeting then adjourned a»d a Boil Road meeting immediately organized, and | some fdw remarks were made by Jonathan Boynton and others, after which tho meet, ing adjourned. Immediately after tho adjournment of the Rail Road meeting, tho Democratic , meeting was re organized, when the Hon. < ! G. R. Bartott was called upon to address i ! the meeting, to which call he responded *in his usual able and eloquent manner,— ■ j 'The meeting then adjourned to moot again ! on Thursday evening, j On Wednesday evening, a large number J of the citizens of our county, of alt parties, 'assembled in the Court Houso, for tho I purposo of hearing tho principles of the [ great Native American parly expounded. ! As previously announced, that mighty or- i ator of tho party, Gen. Potor Skcn Smith, of Philadelphia,—the individual who has ! been endeavoring to make the public be- ' |icvo that “a foreigner fresh from the Em erald Isle, can vote on n six months resi dflnco in the Stale of Illinoise”—appeared i on the stand. Puring his address he en deavored to convince tho assembled crowd that his object, or rather tho object of this great party, was not as supposed to be, for the purposo of suppressing or meddling with the religious liberties of any particu- . lar sect. But that their object.was to maintain the rights of American citizens,! and to prevent if possible, tho intermedd ling of foreigners with our ballot box.— Illiberal, unfnirand anti-republican as their object publicly expressed may nppcnr, he could not avoid during the course of his remarks to give an occasional dab to a t certain religious denomination, which fore- j shadowed most clearly that their whole oh- j iject was not fully acknowledged. j | Not by a fair representation of fuels,] i but by bolieing tho official documents, the j ' only reliable evidence we hnve.heendeav-l jbred to convince tho intelligent citizens of , Clearfield county, that our free institutions •.were actually in ddngerofbeing subverted *by the constantly increasing tide of emi * grntion from other countries. 1 His address, in fact, from beginning to jend, portrayed most clearly that tho cause he was endeavoring to sustain was a des-; Ipernte one—and in .-order, to make cv-i jen.a respectablo show towards which,j ■no small amount of misrepresentation—j ; the misapplication of lhe ; langago of tho j ! founders of our free institutions, downright! ] lieing, &c, was required. A { ] Mr. S. interested, or rather amused thoj audienco for some three hours by inter splicing his remarks with some laughable anecdotes, and finally concluded with a < song and drunken danco, which latter op oration ho most admirably performed. ■[ The following day-, this travelling mis- j sionary left—and if ho entertained the opinion that his address here was likely to work wonders for their cause, or even secure for them a respectable number of rcoruils, he must have attributed to the] j citizens of our county more than their due j proportion of ignorance, or he himself] is certainly not e Solomon. Agreeably to adjournment, the Democ racy again assembled in tho Court House on Thursday evening. Addresses were delivered by Wm. A. Wallaco, Esq., nnd Hon. G. R. Barrett, who took up tho orgu ment advanced by: the Native American orator on the previous evening, and com pletely upset every .idea of importance advanced by him. (XSrln answer to a communication on the first page of to-day’s paper, the writer of which appears to be somewhat anxious that we should make known our views on the subject of a prohibitory liquor law, we would say in the language of our corres pondent : “Give us the law, a special election, a fair field npd no favors,” and let tho people decide the question. ' OirThobill to prohibit or ragulale tho manufacture and sale of.intoxicating liquors in this Commonwealth, was before -the House on the. 28d and ; 24th. The ques tion, was discussed at some length but no final action was had. ;-' v^ , OCrOn Saturday' night last, show fell here to the depth offiyepreix inches? but haspincebeen, fast before theraya <)f the Bud, &iid has now well OijrOur readers'eannot have failed to j notice the repeated Judge Campbell, the present efficient Postmaster ; ! General,; or rather, ,the 'denunciaiipnd'of I Gov. Bigldr and President Pierce for ap- ( I pointing him tp.official trusts. That tho real caitso of these denunciations arise from the presumes Catholicity of that dis tinguished statesman, cpn.npt be .denied. ] ■Whether he is a Catholic or Protestant, it does not matter, ai least in a political sense, so iojpg ns the constitution of our country guarantees to every man the right to worship his God according to. the dio- j totes of his own conscience j nor yet in a moral sense, for ho reasonable man' will deny that a person may be a Catholic and , also a true Christian. ! But if Judge Campbell is deserving of ; the hatred and denunciations of Protestants, j why is it that Protestant associations where | ho is personally known—whoro his daily walk and conversation is observed by tho whole community—voluntarily confer up on him" their testimonials of respect and , confidence ? Are our natives more wise j than they T Do-thoy protend to know him bolter than those who wero his playmates ] in youth, and are now his companions in, riper years? If so, thciy should give us ] something stronger than naked assertions, i And before they repeat tiioir denunciations! wo would adviso them to ascertain thoj truth of tho following annooncement inadoj by tho Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, in his letter of tho J4th, instant: 1 •’The Hnrmonia Litorary Society, con nected with tho Academy atCassville, Pa. (an institution under thepatronage of the Baltimore .Conference of the Mctlwdist Epicopal Church) having olecteJ Post master General Campbell, Senator Cass, and Professor Henry, honorary members, eachof those gentlemen, acknowledge the compliment in handsome letters. Tho two former accompany their epistles respec tively, with a couple of beautiful volumes for the library of the society.” Somo of our Methodist friends in this community, who have allowed their feel ings to carry them astray on this subject, should bo sure they are right beforo they deal in such uncharitable denunciations — for it is not to be presumed that any insti tution under tho far-famed Baltimore con ference of tho M. E. Church, would thus bestow its honors upon any man, however I high and great, who was inimionl to the Christian faith. (KrProfessor Summorfield, tho Magi cian and Wizzard, gavo an exhibition in j the Town Hall lost night. His (bats of| slight of hand &c., were really astonish-j ing, and every thing attempted admirably i performed. Mr. S. surpasses any aud all! who have heretofore visited our town.— He will give another entertainmentthis ev- \ cuing. Admittance !2j cents. Children I half price. I J ftJ*For the lost ten days or more the river Susquchannali has been clear of ice, and our lumbermen aro about making preparations to prepare theirraftis and oth er crafts for starting to market. The Mabketo. —Grain aI. every de scription still continues to command high prices here. Wheat is still selling.at 61,60 cents per bushel, and some has been sold as high ns 81,75 cents per bushel, Ryo §I,QO; CornBl,oD; Buckwneat7s; Oats 50. In Philadelphia, on the 24th ult, whont flour was selling at from $8,25 to $8,75 per barrel. Wheat from $1,85 to $1,05 per bushel; Ityo from 95 cents to $1,03 ; Corn 88 and 90 cents ; Oats 45 cents. In New York on tlie^Sd,,whont flour was selling-at 88,37 to $8,75 per barrel. A Little Bor with a Straw Hat.— - A crippled beggar in a largo city was I striving to 'pick up some old clothes that • had been thrown him from a window, I when a crowd of rude boys gathered round ] I mimicking his awkward moyementsi and, hooting at his hclplesshoas and; rags.— Presently another noble little fellow camp up ,and hastily pushing forward through Iho crowd, helped the pour crippled .mph to pick Up his gifts, and fastened them in a ; bundle. Then slipping a piece of silver into his hand, was'runping a wavy when a voitjo fur Up abovo him, said “Little boy I with the straw hat, look up.” I He did so, and a lady, leaning from an I upper window, sajd earnestly, “Godblosq you, my little fellpw. God bless you for ' that/’* The lady wastho wile of 1 a mail so distinguished among the great men of this world, that every one of those boys would have been proud; to obtqm her approbation; and when she wrpta down his name as oho she wished to remember, he foltmoro than paid ior.All hohad'doho. " As he walked along, lie thought how glad he had roade his own heart by doing good. He thought of the poor beggar’s grateful look; thenofthe lady’s smile and words of approval; and last, and better thap all, he could almost hear his Heavenly Father whispering, “Blessed are; the merciful .for thoy stia.U obtain pierpy.” ” '!‘ Lilt jo reader,' when you have an oppor tuhity to do gbod, and feel temptedto ne glect it;remember ‘‘the boy with the straw hat." "" - NfcW Yobk, Feb. letter receiv ed here iroiaCantbh;doted December oth, states that the U.' S.ehipPlymouth had just artlvfedi > having; losteVorboata lifdutv .Mathews-andfoiirteen of her crew in a ' typhbon.^n^hirilhe-Bonin islands,' - ,v '""''•) '') ‘ i i i' : ! Vo Fob., After all that has been said by'the cori respondents of tho northern papers to the ■< contrary, the Gadsden treaty with Mexico wad submitted to tho Sennto yesterday"-i- r Where its truo character shall bo made known, it will bo found to be, as I bofore ' stated to you, highly advantageous to our country-—not only because itadds largely to our present boundaries; many privileges which wo could not well do without, but because wo thus setdo a dispute with Mexico which might others wiso lead to another war with that cOut>.' try—and, although a war might bring more territory—indeed might leave noth--- ing of Mexico in tho end;—erery body knows that a war would cost perhaps . times (lie price stipulated in thisi treaty.*!,’ And besides, we assert all the evils ttatt.. war necessarily engenders to a nation,-.: Its fate in the Senate, however* is unccti | tain. There is a powerful interest agttiitit i(s' , confinnation in all parts of the |and[ not the least powerful and influentuff is that class who think we aro paying tog much for what will come under the shad ow of our eagle’s wings in tho course of* [very few years on the progressive princ£ pie of the age, and thut then for tho polioy of “masterly inactivity” is the wisest couratt: for our country to pursue. There can bi no question, however, that the President and cabinet have acted wisely in submit ting it to the consideration of the Senate.' Tho discussion still continues in thd Senate on the'Nebraska and Kauzns bilk Both the Ohio abolition Senators have made ihcir speeches against ft, as have ah so Everett of Massachusetts, and Smith of Connecticut, in reply to Dixon (Whig) of Kentucky. Gen. Cas3 will reply to Ev< erett, and then perhaps tho country will heur from Sumner, the great aboliliooia from Massachusetts, who, by the way, is a man who has but few superiors in our country. After that, Seward of New York and several others will address the Sen. utc, (or rather the oountry, for these spee. ches are made to be -read, rather than to heard) when Doug)as3 will close the de- < bate in one of his best efforts, and thenlt will pass the Senate by at least three to one. It will also pass the House bv a de* cided vote, and at perhaps an early day, for members of Congress are just about as well surfeited wirh the State arguments of abolitionists as the people are. Tho moot, lings held in tho northern cities, and the i remonstrances sent here against the pas sage of this measure, are nothiug like as formidable as the demonstrations made against the adoption of the peace mea se res in 1850. ..They shown weakness ieven for.abolitionism ; and as for their showing the true feeling of the great non** of the northern people, it is all gammon, The freemen of the north are loyal to the Constitution, and only ask thut its provis ions may not bo departed from. In the House, on Thursday, the defi ciency bill wns accidentally laid on the table—accidentally, because the mam bees had practised the log-rolling system until ] they had erected a monster of such largo 1 dimensions that each political party was ashamed of it, and when it came up for final passage it was voted down, and then a motion to reconsider, it was laid upon the table. It embraced many meritorious items, for the wantof some of which much public inconvenience and individual suf fering is endured. ButJhen,again, there were lurge sums appropriated for the I building of custom houses, &c., by various citizens, which more properly belong to the regular appropriation bill. The legit imate end of the deficiency dull will no doubt be effected without much longer delay. Theater-visiting people at Washington have been richly entertained the past week by the great American tragedian,,Edwin Forrest, who has been performing at the National in some of his favorite charac ters. This is one of the largest theatres in tho country, and it is crowded to ex cess every night. Mr. Forrest is certain ly at the very head qf his profession; and is idolized hy tho common people—by whom aro meant ail except the aristocrat cy. As often as he appears jtpon the 6tage, this partiality is exhibited; Much of this is doubtless attributable to the ef fort made a few years ago'by his enemies • to drivo him from the stage, by lauding an English rival of scarcely half pis' real mer its, - which hud n directly contrary effect, us it created a deep national feeling in his favor. But on, or off tho staged Forrest is a fair specimen of a true American fc, publican, and wherever you find a man possessing his personal acquaintances—l sjieuk df tiie industrial class—you find a ipan' ready to throw off his coat and /oil up his sleoycs fprlhegreat American actor, ' Your readers have often heard of tho profligacy and debauchery—ihedisregard of public and private morals practised at this metropol is, Thele is no doubt a gteat ttbuhdahcC'bf all aorta of vice 'practised here; but there is one thing certain; and that is; that the police regulation's are of the stricteat kind, and are os'strictly en forced as they are in any other city ; and if vice' does abbund, it is well hid fromthe public and the civil authorities. Drunken’ ness, however; cannot be hid, and is prac tised here to on alarming extent. ' Many of the brighest intellects of our cot/ntry have gone down to : a drunkdrd> grave here, ; that.’ might : have beoiV 'saved else where; and at this timbtherOare numer ous instances of men of capacity of tho best order fdr usefulness to the country fast travelling in the same direction.' B was only thid week 'thdt'tweiheh of thi* Character, one of whom is a Pennsylvani an, Ond at one fimo'held 'oiieiof the most hoiiaraWe sibilohs - j of talents of the very first order— bpevfecU gentleman in .every sense—vrai • to hands by the aent [ to the workhouse as common Such facts sfieak volumes tWs leg alization ofthe traflje tbiS ; destroying monateV/l&'oAa/, ■ -v.-.iM'.vjaf:
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