ill pood faith wo would maintain the com promises oi the constitution, the furl her ex tension of the system should be steadily and firmly resisted. Resolved , That we have undiminished and abiding confidence in our patriotic, en lightened and worthy (iovernor, Wx. K JOHNSTON, and believe that with such a man at the head of our state affairs, tf pro perly sustained by an honest and intel ligent Legislature, Pennsylvania will be i able to assume and sustain her exalted 1 station at the head of the National confed- j eracv. Resolved, That the thanks of this Con- i vention are due to our efficient and indefat igable Suite Treasurer, lion. GIDEON J. Hall, for his patriotic anJ successful ex i crtion in paying the interest on cur st ite , debt in specie, thereby sustaining the cred- ' it of the Commonwealth against the tin- ; woiihv conduit ition of the L >cofoco lead- 1 -rs to tarnish and break it down, by pie- j maturely drawing enormous sums of mon- | ey from the public treasury to place in the ! hands nt their office-holders and political pirasites, under a pietext of paying tlie laborers on the public works. Resolved, That we hail with joy the successful s ruggle of the gallant Hungari ans for their 'long lost liberties'—and deep ly deploring the unhappy fate of Rome, loathe and detest the treachery and incon sistency of her Republican conqueror— I and with our whole heart send our shout ! of good cheer to all the down trodden and oppressed of the old world, battling against tyrant- a id tyranny. Resolvtd , That as the government is in duty bound to protect the labor of the country, so more especially should it be its care to foster and protect the youthful la borer, the youth of tlie country being its most valuable possessions. We there fore deem the law known as the Ten Ilour Law, a proper and judicious safeguard against oppression, Resolved, That we heartly approve and will sustain an Elective Judiciary, a Whig measure, carried out by the last W'hig Legislature. Resolved, That in presenting to the citi- : zens of Pennsylvania,the name of HENRY j M. FULLER as a candidate for their suf- j frages fur the office of Canal Commission- I er, we have given them a man entirely : worthy of their confidence, one who is . well known to the people, and the entire unanimity of this convention is tlie surest , criterion of the estimation in which he is held by his fellow citizens. Resolved, That it is the true interests ! of the people, to have gentlemen in the Hoard of Canal Commissioners entertain- ! tng different political principles, as thereby j the fraudulent bestowal of public money ' on party favorites, fur party purposes, will . be prevented. W'e therefore call upon tlie honest tax paying people of Pennsylvania, to give their suffrages to HENRY M. FULLER, as the best means of promo- j ting their own interests, and securing the public Treasury against fraudulent specu lation. On motion of MR, SMITH, the delegates from Dauphin county were appointed a committee on Finance. Mr. COCHRAN moved that the Provident of the Convention appoint a State Central Committee, to consist of one from each Congressional district, and two members at large in addition. After an interesting discussion on this question, in which Messrs. Cochran, San deison, Kutikel, Franklin, Swartzwelder, Riddle and others participated, and in the course of which various amendments were submitted, the original resolution was adopted. A resolution of thanks to the officers, and one directing tlie proceedings to be published in the Whig papers at Harisburg and throughout the State, were adopted : when the Convention adjourned sine die, with three cheeis for HENRY M. FUL LER. The President of the Convention has an nounced the following STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Morton McMichael, (Chairman) George 11. Hart, James Traquair, Thomas W. Dufficld,Joshua P. Eyre, Caleb N. Taylor, Sand. B.Thomas, Nathaniel Kllmaker,lsaac Bertolet, Henry I). Maxwell, S. D. Lewis, M. C. M ercur, fames Moor, jr. Jno. C. Kutikel, Win. R. Morris, Hi mon Oyster. M. Swartzwelder, Jacob Criswell, Francis Jordan, John Allison, J Stuart Riddle, Satnl. P. Johnson, Wm. T. -Sanders, Alexander Franklin, W. F. Murray, Humphrey G. Hill, John M. Coleman, CHOLERA AT BIRMINGHAM. — The Pitts burg Gazette says that the ravages of the epidemic in the town of Birmingham are increasing rapidly, and spreading through all ja ts of ihe place, in conse quence of which a general panic has seized upon the people. The stores are closed and the stieets blocked up with vehicles re moving families and their furniture into the country. Fires of coal, tar, and rosin were kept burning in the streets, to clear the atmosphere. One day's report shows 20 deaths and 40 cns"3 under treatment, yet the Gazette says that this is an under estimate. The usual horrible tales are related of bodies unhuriei, whole (ami lies swept off, the suddenness of the at tacks, cVc. A VofTiiri'i. MCUDKKF.SS—A I. tile girl, ori!\ II > ars oi age, attempted to poison a whole family iri last Tuesday, by put ting into the tea a quantity of alcohol, HI which corrosive sublimate had I teen dis solved to kill rats. The taste of the alco hol fortunately caused the detection of the poison, and thv juvenile criminal confessed that she had done it. and anid that she had learned the properties of the poison from a eervaut. I lor desire was to poison the family in order to get home to Iter family iu Ohio. ITHE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN, PA. S ATI K DAY, ALGI'ST fi, 1819. T I: R M s : ONI! DOLLAR I*l4 It AAAUJI, j IV ADVANCE. For six months, To cents. ?I3~*A!! XK\V subscriptions must he paid in advance. If the paper is continued, and not paid within the t'ust month. $1.35 will he charg- i ed ; if not paid ia three months, $1.50; if not | |iaid in six months, $1.75; and if not paid in , ! nine months, $2.00. Delegate Elections. mi vi 11 \i i:\Tiui r jpllil Democratic Whig voters of Mi 111 in .1. county are requested to meet in their re spective townships and boroughs, at tlie usual places ot hold ng their Delegate Elections, on SATIK l> A V , t!e '2sth day of August, to elect TWO DELEGATES from each of sr id townships acd boroughs, to represent them in a County Convention, to be held at the TO IVA HALL, m tlie borough of Lewis town, on M O \ I> 1 V , the 27th clay of August, at 2 o'clock, in the afternoon, to put in nomi nation a Democratic V\ big County Ticket, and do such other business as the good of the cause may require. By order ot the County Committee. L. T. WATT.SON, Chairman, j 10~ AN EXTRA, containing eight col umns of advertisements, accompanies to-day's Gazette. new advertisements. j oO~Thc DELEGATE ELECTIONS will be hold ■ this afternoon, between the hours of 2 and 4 j o'clock. CENTRAL RAILROAD. —The first locomotive arrived at Lewistown on Thursday afternoon i with a train of lumber cars. The road will tie opened for regular travel on Friday or Saturday next. The Lancaster Union pays the following com- i pliment to the gentleman who has taken charge of the Banking House recently opened here : WILLIAM KLSSEI.L, Esq., who has for some time past officiated as paying Teller of the Lan caster Bonk, in which capacity he gave univer sal satisfaction, left U9 last week to take charge of the newly established Banking Houe of Messrs. Longenecker, Grubb A- Co., at Lewis town, I'a. The establishment of this Banking House will doubtless be a gieat accommodation to the people of that region of country, its proprietors are gentlemen of undoubted respon sibility and great personal worth, and its officer will lie found in every way competent for the prompt discharge of the new duties upon which he is about to enter. j Mr. J. 11. CARTER, a lecturer ot much re pute, delivered an excellent address on Tern- ; perance at the Town Hall on Thursday even ing. There is ample room here at present for j awakening zn interest in this matter, end who- j ; ever will aid in clearing our streets of the I J drunkenness and profanity BO frequently ex- i ! hibited, will bo entitled to the thanks of all . good citizens. THE TAYLOR DEMOCRATS. —The Washing tan Union compares the Democrats who voted for General Taylor to monkeys, and the last j , True Democrat copies the article and calls it ! " agretable and instructive reading." We |i t 0 j commend this fact to the men of Decatur and ; other townships who had independence enough !to vote for the man of their chiocc. They can i• - • 'here learn tne -estimation in which thev ore , i held—as long as they vote loeof<co ticnets, in order to place loccfocos in office, tiiey are dem ocrats, but it they dare to go contrary to the wishes of those who desire to use them, they are monkeys! Johnston McKee, whoso arrest we noticed last week, was taken to iiollidaysburg and bound over by Justice Cox in SIOOO to appear for trial. THE NEW YORK CONVENTION'S. —The Conven tions of tlie " Hunkers" and "Barnburners" of New York, recently in session at Rome, have adjourned without effecting a union. Still the desire to unite was abundantly manifest on both sides, and it is fair to assume that it will yet be ; accomplished, even though it should be, as John Van Buren says, if they cannot agree upon principles, by giving tlie principles to the Barn j burners and tlie offices to tlie llunkcrs. REMEDY FOR THE DIAIIRIKEV.—A corres ' pondent of a city paper asks the favor of hav- j ing the following remedy inserted, which he al leges has never failed of curing the dinrrhrea, so prevalent this season: Burn a cork, and with the ashes of rork mix some loaf sugar and grated nutmeg; and witii the addition of a small quantity of, brandy form ; all these three ingredients into a black paste. A teaspoonful of this mixture, or black paste, to j lie taken several times in the couseof the day. ; In twenty four hours the most violent attack of. j diarrhoea will bearrested—The remedy issiin- j j pie but certain, and by checking the premoni | lory symptoms, will prevent cholera. LVUEREN'DEKCE IN CALIFORNIA. —A correspon dent of the Baptist Recorder, in a communication to that paper, lamenting over tlie " dreadful | state of society" at San Francisco, gives the f j following instance of the means which every i man possesses, "to gratify the worst passions of his nature, and speed his way to death." He says: "On the day of our arrival a man paid SIOO for ten bottles of champagne, (the usual price,) and SSO for a large arm chair, in : which he seated himself in front of a house,| drank and swore, and sung and drank, till bottles were emptied, and then broke, the re->. inaining five upon the ground, his chair against j the house, and walked oil ill all the glory of his libetty Iccofoeo Lying. - The Carlisle Volunteer, a rabid and unscru pulous lojofoco paper, in speaking ol General Taylor's visit to Carlisle, 6ays ; "The only effect it (Gen. Taylor's speech) had on those who heard it, so fir as we could observe, was pity for the u cak, but perhaps well meaning old man who delivered it.'' On the other hand, the Democrat ol that place, one ot the most decided locofoco papers in the State, speaks as fuiiows : "On Monday last, we had the honor of a visit from our Chief Magistrate, and the recol lection of Uucna Visla appeared to have been revived anew by the sight of the veritable, ac tual flesh and biood of the old hero who com manded our troops on that glorious day Our citizens, without distinction of party, joined in giving Gen. Taylor a cordial and hearty wel come—ami every one we believe was flighty gratified ami pleased, both with the manners and appearance of their President. What ever we may think ot the politics ot the old chieftain, we were certainly very much grati fied with him as an individual. In stature he is smaller than oui imagination had pictured him, but Ins proportions are better, and his ad dress much more pleasing. We have italicised a few words in each paragraph, in order to show the recklessness with which a portion of the locotoco press be lies and slanders Gen. Taylor, merely because lie did not sutler himself to be used ns their tool in the last presidential election. Had he done so—had tic turned traitor to his own con victions of right, the unprincipled demagogues who now vent their malice against him, would have been the first to load the eld hero with fulsome flattery and adulation. Knowledge for llic People. The following statement presents the amount of money drawn from the State Treasury by the Canal and Railroad officers, since the 11th of April last. Payment on accounts of the Public Works, from the 11th of April to the 21st ot August: *J. P. Anderson, $38,011 03 James Turner, 18,714 00 John Maglauchiin, 29, 6G7 55 fWm. English. 175,576 92 George Biatenberger, 7,950 00 T. J. Power, 12S£0000 Canal Commissioner, 1,003 00 Thomas Bennett, 39,100 00 J. 11. Jenkins, 15,590 QU J. Ulam, 1 4.HK) (HI N. K. Huffnagle, 17,600 00 Wm. McPhcrson, 10,093 00 Corn. Int. linp. Fund, to pay officers, 41,000 00 Total, §530.100 10 * Amount for old debts all drawn, f Amount lbr old debts all drawn but S2B. M AINE. —The Legislature of Maine adjourn ed on Wednesday, after a session of over three months. The Homestead Exemption bill pass ed both branches, and has been signed by the Governor. It exempts real estate to the value of five hundred dollars, and if a debtor is not the owner of real estate to that Yalue, then five hundred dollars worth of personal property to be by him selected in addition to the specific exemptions already provided for. The change is not to atiect existing debts. Mr. William II IJurke, son of Mr. Michael Ilurkc, of Marrisburg, the well known contrac tor, ilicd at his residence in Wyndham, N. 11., on Sunday evening last, of dysentery. Aristocratic Ism manitt. —The inhumanity of aristocracy is strikingly exemplified in an affair which has just come to light. Last year, when the Sultan of Turkey subscribed 4'looo for the relief of the famine in Ire.land, he pro posed to give 10,000, but the English Ambas sador suggested to him to give the smaller sum, as Queen Victoria only gave Notices. Sartain'* I'm in Mauazink for September id embellished with a splendid mezzotint en graving of Christ Weeping over Jerusalem, a line cngnving called 'Won't you come along!' and a dozen others, among which is a full re port of the Fashions, including Home Toilette and Walking Dresses, Children's Dresses, liead Dresses, Caps, &c., &c. Terms—sin gle copy $3, with a premium ; two copies §5; five copies §lO. Address Jciin Sartain & Co., Philadelphia. CO""The August number, directed to this office, lias probably miscarried, not having been received. Can the publishers furnish us with a number for that month ! M'.Makin's Model American Cciiuer is published at §*2 per aunum, but in order to con tinue an immense circulation tne publisher proposes to furmeh clubs or companies on the following terms: Four copies of the Ameri can Courier §•">; eight copies (and one for the agent.) $10; thirteen copies (and one for the agent,) §ls; twenty copies (and one tor the agent,) sjt'2!); over twenty copies at the .-ame rates as the last; two copies of the American Conner and Sears' or Sartains'a Magazine, I year, $I; three copies of the American Courier ami nne JS.ir tain's or Sears' Pictorial Magazine, American Revolution, or Great Britain, :s(>; six copies of the American Courier, and two ' copies of eitlier Sears' or Sartain's Magazine, ! American Revolution, or Great Britain, $lO. — 1 Address post paid, to ASDUEW M'MAKIN, NO. 141 Chestnut street, above 4th, Philadelphia, price on that day. Jt ijrnppcd, or soul to any ! person that does not get it ground in the mill, TWO cents per bushel storage will be charged. If they give notice, and keep it over after the first of August, the storage will be ONE HALF cent per month, afterwards. The grain will bo ciear from high water. The subscriber will keep ; Plaster, Fifth, Salt and Groceries | of all kinds, which will be sold low for cash to ; Farmers, by the quantity. (O-FLOUR, MIDDLINGS, and all kinds of Grain and Feed, will be constantly kept on hand, and Bold low lor cash. A. W. VV. STKRRETT. N. B. JOHN STERRETT is authorized to trunsact any business in the above premises us my Agent, j Lcwistown, April 14, I^l9—ly. T II E C II 0 L F. RA. The whole number of deaths by cholera in 1 the citv of New York, from the commence- j ment of the disease uj to liie 18th insL, is 4,- 489. The cholera is on the increoce at Newark. X. J. On the 20th instant there were four teen deaths in the city and three m the Alms- i house. The whole number of deaths in New Or leans during the week enoing the 11th inst . ; was 117, ot which G were by yellow fever— none by cho\era. The whole number of deaths in Sandusky. Ohio, since the appearance of the cholera on the 2<J July, i 52.78. The population of the town is only 5.007 and, during the prevalence of the epidemic has not been more than 3000. MORTALITY IN N KW ORLEANS. —The number of deaths in New Orleans, for the four weeks ending June 30th, was 566, of which 227 were j of cholera. Of the whole number, 433 were whites and 133 colored. One person was hang ed, and, with characteristic courtesy, is report- j ed to have died of a " fracture of the neck." j COINAGE FOR JULY. —Tiic coinage at the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, during the month of ; July last, was as follows:—Gold coinage sl,-' 098.(120, silver $23,000; making a total of £l,- 126,690. ' POPULATION or CHIC AGO. —The census of Chi- : cagov. as recently taken and sliows a population of 22,850. The population in August, 1848 was 19,724, making a difference in favor of 1849 of 3,220. OREGON*. —There are six candidates fur the j office of delegate to Congress from Oregon. It is a place worth having, as the mileage alone trill amount to about Sld.OOd or >12,000 ! HEALTH OF PHILADELPHIA. —No cases of cho lera having occurred for some days, the Board of Health has in consequence resolved to dis ' continue its sittings. The Bath Tribune says that a child of Dr. , Shaw, two years of age, died on Saturday last, after a sickness of six hours, from eating cobalt, which was prepared for flies. One incident j connected with her death, says the Tribune, , was affectingly beautiful. When her eyes be gan to grow dim with death, she evidently fan cied it was night, and she was goingasieep ; and she died with her customary "good night, mam ma, good night, mamma" many times repeated, trembling on her lips. PITTSBI KOH. August 21. , Mr. dunning, employed as hend clerk in the house of Messrs. Lvon, Shorb &. Co., commit ted suicide last evening by hanging himself to his bedpost. Mr. G. leaves a young and in teresting family. No cause is nssgned for the commission of the deed. THE DEVBY DEFALCATION*. —In the Cnited States District Court of this city, yesterday in the case of the United Stales vs. Nathaniel Den by, late Navy Agent at Marseilles, France, who is charged with being a defaulter to the govern ment, the defendant confessed judgment for the full amount claimed, with interest, being $159,- 493 67. Mr. Denby still remains in custody, and is quite ill, so much in fact that he did not appear in Court, and judgment was confessed 5 by his attorney. He is understood to be con fined to lus bed.— Dullj .Vctcj, August 21. ! _ ' BEWARE or COCVTERFEITS. —Ten's on Bank of Pittsburgh—s's altered from l's on Bank of Lexington, Ky.—l's on State Bank of Ohio—s's I'nton Bank of Massillon—3's City Bank of Clcaveland—3's Franklin Bank of Zanesville — 10's N. W. Bank of Virginia, at Wheeling; all j new and likely to deceive. The Alexandria Gazette describes a bungling j counterfeit of a $lO note of the Exchange Bank of Va., payable at Alexandria, which has made its appearance. The President's name of the Branch at Alexandria is omitted, the faces of Washington and .Marshall are omitted, in the place of which are inserted two 10's, and the 5 engravings on the margin, of a railroad and ca nal, are also omitted. The whole appearance is entirely dilfereut from the genuine, note. We have been shown, says the Pittsburgh American, anew counterfeit $2 note on the ; Seneca county Bank, N. J., dated Waterloo, j September 4, 1848, which is not noticed in any j of the detectors. It may be detected by its bad engraving. Counterfeit 82 bills on the State Bank of Indian® are reported. The bill is marked let ter 8., dated January 1, 1848, paybale at the Tcrre Haute Branch; G. Preston Cashier, and J. Morrison, President. The engraving is coarse, and the signature lithographed. Counterfeit -Ts on the New Haven Bink—a very close imitation of the genuine—have mule their appearance. Vignette, a spread ea ' glr. ships, &c , n miniature pictureot the' First Sabbath in Quinnipnick' on the right end.— In the counterfeit the head of the eagle is ; quite indistinct, while in the genuine it is plain. I!nntip.2ilon County. The Whigs of Huntingdon assembled in coun ty convention last week and nominated the ful- lowing ticket : assembly —A. K. Cornyn, of Huntingdon. Treasurer —John A. Doyle, of Shirley. Commission r—lsaac Pcjghtul, of Penn. .luditor —Thomas Fisher, of Huntingdon. The locofocos met on the same day and nom inated their ticket: .Issembly —David Duff. Treasurer —Jacob Miller. Commissioner —Gilbert Chcny. .luilitor —John Carl. THE COURT. —The attendance at our Court last week was large. The entire week was oc cupied in the trial of criminal causes. Henry Heltrigbt whose arrest we noticed some time since, on the charge of stabbing his brother, George llelfright, with a pitch-fork, resulting in his death, was acquitted. The case was carefully investigated, and all the evidence clearly proved that Henry acted on the defen sive, and that George received the fatal wound while violently attacking Henry's house, at tempting to enter, and threatening Henry that he would kill him. Messrs. Stewart and Orbi son conducted the prosecution, and Messrs. Qpmpbell, Scott and Benedict the defence.— Huntingdon Journal. It is stated that the sum of $93,000 was paid by Messrs. Stewart, dry goods deal ers, Broadway, New York, on Friday nml Saturday last, for duties on goods entered at the custom house. General Taylor's Progress. The hero of Buena Vista continues to receive enthusiastic receptions at all the towns he visits. Gen. Taylor was welcomed at Pittsburg bv a speech from Walter Forward, E?q The General in his reply alluded thus to the Pennsylvania volunteers and our S'ate : Sir, vou have kindly alluded to inv ser vices. They have been, for the most part, the services of the camp, and in the achievements gained by our arms, I claim but n small share. They are mainly due to the strong arms and bold hearts of our regulars and volun teers, in which the citizens of Pennsylva nia held no inconsiderable p.irt in tbe memorable war against the Mexican gov eminent (Loud cheer? ) The operations of the American soldiers in Mexico, and among them the volunteers of Pennsylvania, have convinced the world that thev are equal not only to defend their own country, but to carry successfully their arms into the country of an enemy, and to maintain their position wherever their banners may be unfurled. (Immense cheering.) Put, sir, while I sppak with pleasure and with pride of the scenes that occurred in Mexico, I am emphaicailv a man of peace ; and 1 would here observe that the great difficulty with our people is to restrain them from military enterprise, whether in self- WTencp, or in carrying war into the enemv's country. (Rapturous cheering.) Although 1 have been bred to the pro fession of arms, I say again that 1 am a mail of peace. I am anxious at all times and under all circumstances, that every possible means should be tried—everv honorable means adopted, before war should be resorted to. (Vociferous cheer iug.) Sir. 1 have entered your State to see the people of Pennsylvania, as their Chief Ma gistrate—to see the whole people Whigs, Democrats, and Natives —without regard to parly, and so tar as 1 have passed through your Sta'e, I have endeavored to proceed without escort without pomp; and my wish has been to meet you as a plain republican man. (Loud cheers.) Sir, I must say that I feci myself perfect ly at home with the people of Pennsylva nia. (Immense cheering.) I have now had an opportunity of pas sing through some of the Slates and seeing their mercantile, their mining, and manu facturing operations ; and I hope 1 may be allowed to say that I am not trespassing the laws of propriety, when 1 devote a little leisure to acquiring such information as I can obtain by a visit to some of the promi nent places of the Union where such infor mation is to be obtained. (Cheers.) Ir all matters of this sort, 1 wish to see and to judge for myself. (Great cheering.) He left Pittsburgh on Tuesday last for Beaver, Erie, <kc. THE A nDtcTioN" CASE AT NEW OR. LEAMS. —Something serious may yet grow out of this case, unless the Governor of Cuba should be able to show that Garcia left this country of his own accord. The last accounts from New Orleans state that the Spanish Consul had been held to bail in the sum of SSOOO, to answer the charge of abducting Rey from that city. The Washington Republic devotes a long ar ticle to the subject, in the course of which it says : We do not hesitate to say, from a pe rusal of all the evidence, that there has been more peijury and villainy disclosed on this trial than ordinarily meets the eve or ear of any Old Baily lawyer. It can scarcely admit of doubt, that bribery to an immense amount has been employed to suborn witnesses and induce them to for swear themseles. We cannot believe in the innocence of the Spanish Consul. The weight ofcred- : ible testimony satisfies us that Garcia was liaudulentiy, if not forcibly kidnapped and carried on board the Mary Ellen. We doubt the innocence both of the captain and crew of that schooner. We believe that Garcia, who left New Orleans with out a single change of clothes, was put on board the American vessel, Andrew Ring, ' nominally for quarantine, but really lor a prison; that vessel being all the time kept under the guns of a Spanish man of war. so that she could not possibly escape out of the harbor with Garcia on board; while the fact ot his performing quarantine in an Amercan vessel was but a trick of the crafty Spaniard who governs that Island, j to induce the people ol'ihe United States to suppose that Garcia was free. We have no doubt the confession of Garcia to our consul, Mr. Campbell, in the presence of the port,Capttain that he came voluntari ly Iroin Nmv Orleans, was an acknowledg ment extorted by fear of death, and that he has long since retracted it, if he has not gone to his grave. We learn fiom Ha vana that the captain general has refused : permission to Mr. Campbell to visit Gar cia in prison, and when we last heard Iroin him he wus confined on board a Span ish mail of war. Mr. Hdward Hughes, a well known cit izen of Allegheny county, Fa-, of the turn of Wood Hughes, Brewers, of Pitts burg, was found drowned near the landing \ l ice of Jones' ferry in that city on the lDth mst IPs gold watch and some 9120 in money was found on his person, which precludes the snspicion that he had been robbed and thrown in the river. An official report of the Camden and Amboy Kailroad Company states that du ring a period of 17 years past, the number ol persons killed on the roads of ihut coin puny was 20. Upon all the rnilioads in Massachusetts there were killed, in 1847, forty-four persons; and in 1848, fifty-six ' persons. THE MEX CAN PKTUCOC —The N A ., al intelligencer contains an eUtJ,! . ' r i . • r.v animation of the subject of the l' r( , t(JCri the Mexican treaty, which, no doubt presses the views and concht,„. n( , f , Y ' present Administration. J | ie \j ' a government has shown a consider the Protocol as a key ur the const ruction of th a provisions Treaty of Peace. 'Plut such a view'"- •'! is not justified eidier by the facia o f°, case or by the law mid usage of nan.,, ' is abundantly shown by this expos,xi™*' - The full.-wing is a summary of tj ie '„ suits to which tiie article referred to ■' rives, after a full investigation of the w'h matter : 1. That our commissioners had nop-,* er to negotiate on any 0 f the points which the Protocol refers, except as to the mode of payment of the twelvo million,' on which, however, they could conclude nothing until the treaty of peace as amen i ed on our part, hud been latified by Mr\ ico. 2. That the explanations and assurances given by our Commissioners to the Mex can Government are indirect opposition t„ the sense of the treaty of peace, as clearly and unequivocally shown by its term?. ' 3. That the treaty was ratified by the Mexican Government, without any pii,ie.> t exception, or objection whatever, in it^ act of ratification, to any part of the treaty. 4. I hat the ratification was given bv the Mexican Government with the lull aud certain knowledge, on its part, of the exact ness of the first and second of iho aboru propositions. 5. That the Mexican Government con firmed its assent to the treaty bv immedi. ately afterwards accepting the first insta.. men* of three millions of dollars, made payable to it by the United States under the tweltfh article, and by other acts ia ac cordance with other stipulations of tns same. If these propositions be admit.ed— and no grounds can be seen fur impugning any one of them in any way—it follows neces. sarily ihnt Mexico is bound to the observ. arice of the treaty in all respects, by everv principle of national law and national hon or : and the United States are equally jus tified in disregarding the interpretations to which their Commissioners assented, ta signing the Protocol without any power or authority to do so, and in express contra vention of their instructions. THE CINCINNATI DEFALCATION.— The question of Mr. COLLINS' defalcation is still discussed in the papers. While it is contended by the Washington Union and other democratic prints that the late Col lector is not a defaulter, and that he will be able to satisfy ail claims of the Govern ment, it is maintained on the other hand, by the Cincinnati Gazette and Atlas, that there is an ascertained deficit of some $93,000, after taking into the account all the funds in his possession or deposited ia bank to ins credit. It is stated that some $60,000 of merchants' bonds, notes, Ac., are also held by Mr. Collins, which, if ad mitted into the account by the government, would reduce the figures against him to 813,000. But as a matter of course the Government declines to receive these vouchers in payment of the balance due Irom the Colletcor. Such a course of pro ceeding was evidently never contemplated by the Revenue Law Mr. Secretary WALK KR procured to be passed, the chief merit claimed for which was, that it required the duties to be paid in cash, or the goods of the merchant to be warehoused until all claims of the Government were satisfied. Such bonds and notes then, taken without the sanction of the law and at the Collec tor s own risk, are not and certainly ought not to be received as money from the reti ring Collector. The Government must re quire the actual money, or the goods upon which the money is due, which, under the law, the Collector is presumed to hold as collateral security lor the payment of tit# duties accruing thereon. SOCIETY UPSET IN CALIFORNIA i There appears to be what the French call a bouleversement —a complete overturn— of the usual arrangements ofsociety,at the gold region; for a specimen of which see the following extract from a San Francisco letter in the Boston Courier : •Sinco my arrival 1 have seen a lieuten ant of the navy and a New York merchant dragging a hand cart, at an ounce per load; a few da\ s since I met a professor in one of your first colleges, driving his ox team hauling emigrant 'traps to the dtgouis.'" l S'dt) fur one hundred pounds. A (eorg' l planter cooks my salt pork, and does the flap jacks brown; a printer from the Pu'4- yutie office keeps my books, andtwoyoun? gentlemen from jobbing houses ir. IVsrl street take care of the mutes, haul lumM and act as porter in the store; eacli fro" 1 £lO to 1< per day, with board. In Calif#' nia all labor, and one is daily fumble with innumerable sources of amusenie# by meeting old friends in such conned employment. Imagine our friend • artist, with buckskin trousers red flannel shirt, and California hat, peddling newspa pers : 'Sun, Herald and Tribune, si f latest dates from New York, onlyhrodob lars each.* Fhe artist spoken of is doubtless J- Osgood, whose excellent letters to d<' JNcie York Tribune confirm this as ' part ol his occupation, at a California re* mumeriting rate, of course. MARRIED, On Tuesday morning last, by the Rev- Rosenberg, Jons M. BOWMAN, of Cambria tv, to Miss CATHARINE A., daughter of P"* " Spaulding, of this place. .May a long and prosperous life, uatiisferU by the storms and shadows that so often liu cloud human affairs, be the lot of the }—b cptijilc noticed above,
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