C o in VA u u I c*i t C o u
V writer who SIGNS himself CLEM, semis
U3 the following for publication, but as he
persists in refusing to give his name, we
cannot endorse for its originality :
I HIVE LOVED.
1 have loved ! and in the ecstaey of that love
Spiritual thoughts have wrap'd my soul,
Whilst wing'ii messengers from above
Dwelt in communion and control.
I have loved, amidst smiles and tears.
Though that love was all in vain;
Through all the bitterness of years
That time can ne'er recall again.
1 have loved—drank from its stream,
With hopeful thirst pursuing—
A dawning ray, or a transient gleam,
Was bliss to the heart-consuming.
1 have loved, and fondly blended
The vain illusions of the mind,
That seraph joys would be extended
To a heart to love inclin'd.
i have loved ! life's sweetest flowers
Will bloom on, tho' time, should flee,
And jov.s may vanish with the hours.
But love still dwells with memory.
CLEM.
JLEWISTOWV. February 1:2, 1850.
For the Gazette.
MR. I EDITOR : —I hope you and \ our
readers will hear in? for a few moments,
and lest i he troublesome 1 shall be brief.
My pen is unused to write, and conse
quently I must claim your indulgence lbr
blunders it may make.
In looking over your last two papers 1
was not a little gratified to find that the
lovers of order have determined that they
will be no longer silent—that they will no
longer continue inactive, while a band of
God-defying, law-defviitg desperadoes are
turning your once peaceful borough into a
modern Sodom. Friends of order in
Milllin county, keep no longer silent.—
Speak, and let your voice be heard. Let
me assure you, the time is not far distant,
tt anarchy and rowdy ism is winked at, as
now and heretofore, when Mitllin countv
will become a byword —will he spoken of
in subsequent history as Jeroboam, the son
of IVebat, who made Israel to sin, is spo
ken of bv the sacred historians. Whv, win
should this state of things exist ? An an
swer is at hand, and, in the language of j
"An Inquirer,'' be not startled, if I tell
you that not only is Lewistown without i
an officer, but '.he entire county, or, at least,
apparently so.* This conclusion has not
been arrived at hastily. A short residence
and close observation have satisfied the
writer that what he asserts is true. Let the
work of reform commence in Lewistown. i
Elect officers that will do their duty fear
less of frowns and regardless of favors, and
let the people see that they do it; have
the haunts of the vicious, the profane, the
drunkard, and the licentious broken up.—
Then, and not till then, may female deli
cacy pass along your streets uninsulted :
but at present, sights revolting to the more
hardened sensibilities of man are witnessed
even in the broad glare of the noon-day t
sun. Then what must night present 1— '
The stranger fears to tread your streets !
In vain does Lewistown boast, thatshe has ,
more churches than sister towns of her ,
dimensions, while she countenances the i
grand rendezvous, whence issue a clan of
regular disciplined desperadoes,armed with
Bowie knives and pistols, having no other
object in view than to annoy the peaceful
citizens of the surrounding country, break
up meetings for pleasure or religion, &e.
The reason is obvious : the violators of
law and order escape. The law is good if
lawfully used. Citizens of Lewistown !
citizens of Mifflin county ! do your duty !
Then may you occupy that position among
the counties of Pennsy Ivania to which your
natural location entitles you. Begin now,
and let success be your motto.
OKDEIL
[**' Order," we believe, is saving too much
here. We are satisfied that some of the bor
ough and county officers arc willing enough to
do their duty, and were we to go to the root of
the matter, it would perhaps be found that the 1
sovtreignpeojtle, too often found aiding and abet
ting vault things, have been quite as much at fault
as the ofheers. A considerable tree, however,
having grown from the acorn, there will proba- <
bly he less sympathy fur jail birds hereafter than
has been the case, and of course a better admin
istration of the laws.— ED. GAZETTE]
Correspondence of the Gazette.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 19 1850.
MR. E OITOR :—No inconsiderable excitemert
continues to prevail in rcgnru to the contempla
ted repeal of the " Sunday-l,aw," referred to
in rny last. The votaries of temperance are
indefatigable in excrticns to prevent the 41 ca
lamity," ae they term it; but their adversaries
are equai'y arduous, and 1 learn from u reliable
source, that their labor? among our legislators
have not ! • en without effect, and the probability
is the law will be abolished. Some thirty tavern
keepers were arraigned before the City Court
yesterday for selling liquor on Sundays, and
fu el from S9O to SBO each. To-day some
twenty additional cases were disposed of. ma
king the amount cf fines levied on tavern keep
ore for selling liquor on that day $9.2-0. one
half ot which goe* to the informer*, tbc o'iici
to tne put l-c*-hor.l fund.
St. Valentine's Day was observed as nuu',
by * fie Lc tux and belles of this citv. Eight
thousand Valentines passed though the p< m
office on that day, besides the in.meri-< number
whtch were ItransrnitTr-d through the medium
of the different despatch posts. Last year Oic
number received at the p. st office amounted lo
fourteen thousand, thus showing that the cus
tom of 44 making love" in this manner .s rapidly
becoming unpopular. The fact is, the custom
has been of jure years sadly abused. Carica
tures—falcely called Valentines—which are
indelicate in design and gross in execution—
alike disgraceful to those who send them and
insulting to the recipients—are sold by thou
earids. Quite H numbered the heads of families
iti this city gave directions that no Valentines
f-houid he left at their houses, lest their daugh
ters he insulted.
A murderous assault was perpetrated by some
unknown persons on Saturday night last. A
Hranger, whilst p.u-t-mg along Charles nieet,
was suddenly fi-iled to the ground by two bricks,
one striking him in the forehead and the other
o-i the back of the neck, inflicting a deep gash,
in-: f< bun nneuei'oU' lot ioine Uurc. —
' Outrages (T this character have become so fre- .
quent of late that strangers dare scarcely ven
ture into the streets after nightfall. A few j
evenings ago, however, two villains, in making I
an attack, found they had " waked up the wrong
passenger." A gentleman from Allegheny ,
county, finding himself followed, prepared for I
resistance, and when, on coming toa place more
dark and lomly than the rest, two suspicions
persons rushed on him, evidently with evil in
tentions, hesuddenly turned around and knocked
one of 'ltem half way across the street and
kicked the other nearly into a horse stable. j
Fr.mi the way they bawled cut it was suspected
that they conceived themselves kicked by an i
Allegheny county horse.
A most daring burglary was committed last
week, on the premises of Daniel Fossbrener.
The robbers entered the bed-room of Mr. F.
and took SSO from a pocket book in his panta
loons pocket, and then proceeded to the room of
1 his son, and extracted $22 from his pockets.—
They decamped without alarming any one in
the house, and most singularly left a small
amount of change in each pocket where they j
sto'e the money from. The pocket books were j
left in an adjoining room.
Since the news of the great fire, which re
cently occurred in San Francisco, reached us, :
, measures have been taken to supply tiie Cali- <
forniaD9 with ftre apparatus. The old suction |
engine, recently in use by the Vigilant Fire j
Company, was completely overhauled, put in
i excellent order, and shipped for California.— !
| .Several hundred yards of hose were also for
warded.
On Thursday morning las', about daylight. ;
the wagon of Mr. Shipley was stopped about
three miles from the city, on the Washington
road, by two villains, and a demand made ot
the driver to deliver up all the money he had.
The driver attempted to go on, but the horse
was held by the head, and a threat made to
" blow out the man's brains" if hedid not do as ;
ordered. The driver still demurred, and fortu- I
nately at tins moment footsteps were heard ap
proaching, which proved to be a colored man j
with an axe on his shoulder on his way to a
I wood cutting, and the scoundrels deemed it
prudent to make a hasty retreat. The rate at
which that wagon travelled the remainder of
the journey is said to have been by no means
slow.
The Baltimore Typographical Society lately !
revised their old Constitution, making several
very material amendments, among which was |
an increase of the rates of labor. The rates ,
hereafter to be paid to journeymen are 30 cents
per 1000 ems, or I*9 per week to hands ein- ]
pioved in Book or Job offices, and sll to those
in Daily newspaper establishments. They j
also adopted a resolution prohibiting employers
from engaging more than tour apprentices in
one < ffice. Quite a number of jours weredis- !
charged in consequence of the " strike," as
several proprietors conce'ved they couid get
along with less hands under the new system.
At first serious threats of retaliation were made
by some of the employers, but all has again
subsided to a proper equilibrium.
I observe by an official report that the num
ber of houses erected in tins city during 1849
was 1.894, being 400 more than were built in
New York during the same period, and proper- ;
tionably more than in Philadelphia. The build
ings, too, were mostly large and elegant edi
fices, of Gothic architecture, some of which 1
think are unsurpassed, in point of beauty, in
any city in the Union.
Three vessels leave our port this morning for j
California—one ship and two barques—iaden
with house frames, lumber, provisions, &c.,and
carrying several passengers, among whom is
Mr. D. Burns and family, whose destination is
Oregon.
The weather has continued plea rant for a 1
week past, and our merchants are making ac
tive preparations for tiier spring trade Several j
of the lowa and Wisconsin merchants have al
reodjgairived, to make their spring purchases.
Fresh shad made their first appearance in our
market last week. They sell at from 37 jto
50 cents each, and are rather of email size. j
Very respectfully yours, 11. j
At the beginning of this century the wil
derness was in Ohio and Indiana. Twen
ty-five years afterwards it was in Michigan,
Wisconsin, and-so-forth. Last year it was
in Minesota Territory. .Next year we j
shall have to seek it in Nebraska and
around the Lake of the Woods.
Rejected Valentines, to the number of'
4,000, were returned by the letter carriers
to the Boston J'ost Office, many of them
apparently very costly, in elegant envel
opes. They were refused on account of
the too prevalent practice of sending in
sulting, coarse and vulgar missives by post
on Valentine's Day, and which thousands
of persons have become offended at.
PEPPERMINT Ct I.TVKE, —Within the j
past season we have frequently rode by !
large fields of growing peppermint, on the ;
openings and prairies of fSt. Joseph county.
\Ve are aware that it was a somewhat large
business with the farmers of that county, but j
not to the extent returned by the assessors
of the towns last year. The town of Flo- :
retire has full ten per centum of the land
cultivated in that town devoted to it. The
returns give 962 acres of peppermint, from
which was realised $16,775. White Pi
geon sent to market 1,900 pounds of oil.
In .New \ ork Slate it appears to lie a set
tled opinion that low lands are the only
ones for its culture. In ISt- Joseph county
uplands do equally as well.— Detroit
(Mich.) Tribune.
FATAL Arnnnvr —The body of Mr.
Benj. Shall' nbrrgrr. Sr., who resided about
a mile and a half above this place, was
found on Fridav morning last, on the bank
of '.lie ('anal, between the warehouse of
W in. Patterson and the bridge. He was
undoubtedly passing the bridge during the
1 pre-.ious evening, and in the darkness
( stumbled over the stone wall, which is not
high enough to afford sufficient protection
r to passers by, and fell a distance of about
twelve, feet, striking his head against some
• stones at the bottom, and cutting a deep
; gasli in the front part of his head, which
j probably killed him instantly, as he was
' found in that position in the morning. An
, inquest was held on the body by f'aleh
, Parker, Esq., and a verdict rendered ac
- cording to the above facts, lie was con
veyed to the house of his Mr.
' John Wright, in this borough. Hehadrc
* cently sold out his personal property with
the view of emigrating to the western
j. .country, w here he had two sons, but an un
t timely death has terminated his earthly
career. tteyister. Feb. 11.
THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1850 .
TER M S :
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM,
IN ADVANCE.
For six months, 75 cents.
S3=AU NEW subscriptions must be paid in
advance. If the paper is continued, and not
pAid within the first month, $1.25 will be charg
ed ; if not paid in three months, $1.50; if not
paid in six months, $1.75; and if not paid in
nine months, $2.00.
REDUCTION OF FARE. —By reference to
the advertisement ol tlie Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, it will be seen that the
fare from Lewistown to Philadelphia has
been fixed at $5.
We understand that an additional pas
senger train will be put upon the road as
soon as the Canal is in navigable order,
thus offering unusual facilities to the trav
elling public. -
The following are the Stations on the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the distances :
FROM TO PHILADELPHIA. TO HARRISBURC.
Dillerville 71 36 miles.
Mount Joy 83 24 "
Elizabethtown 89 18 "
Middletown 5)8 9 "
llighspire 101 6 "
Ilarrisburg 107 U "
Rockville 113 6 "
Cove ild 11"
Duncannon 122 15 "
Aqueduct 125 18 "
Bailey's 130 23 "
Newport 134 27 "
Millerslown 140 33 "
Tusearora 147 40 "
Perrysville 153 46 "
Mitflintown 156 49 "
Lewistown 168 61 "
Anderson's 175 68 "
M'Veytown 180 73 "
Newton Hamilton 190 83 "
Mount Union 193 8G "
Mill Creek 199 92 "
Huntingdon 204 97 "
From Huntingdon to Pittsburgh by Stage is
119 miles.
Way fare, 3 cents per mile. The road
is at present in operation to M'Veytown,
and will probably be completed through
to Huntingdon sometime in the spring.
We have Graham's and Sartain's Maga
zines for March, both handsomely embel
lished, and lilicd with a variety of excel
lent literary matter. Christ Blessing Lit
tle Children, in Sartain's, is a beautiful
picture which will lie highly prized by
subscribers.
rt The Democrat calls the rejection of
James Wattson Webb as Charge to Aus
tria " a good beginning." As this rejec
tion was mainly brought about by Mr.
Cass, because Webb left just before the
Senate met, we hope Gen. Taylor will
second the " good beginning" by forthwith
recalling the son of Lewis ('ass, who was
appointed Charge to Rome at the eleventh
hour of Mr. Polk's administration—drew
his outfit, and left for parts unknown he
fore old Rough and Ready could sav
whether he approved it or nut. We care
but little about Webb or his rejection, but
what's sauce for him ought also to be sauce
for the son of Lewis Cass.
DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS. —The Georgia
loeofocos have passed a bill re-organi/.ing
the congressional districts of that State,
although they have at the present time an
equal number of representatives wtih the
w lugs. Thus far, apportionment laws
have been considered as binding, unless
most flagrantly unjust, but the party of
progress is annually making new discov
eries which will soon make laws an empty
name, if not a reproach.
APPOHTHKYT OF M I> BOSSES,
BV J. s. MIJ.LKR, Supervisor,
fly nntl w ill) Uic. advice and content of thofe mot inter
ested in the mud.
John Strong, Upper Division
Wm. ( hesnut, Lewistown 44
llenrv SulofT, Narrows "
John Wyke, Milllin m "
Isaac Wright, Millerstown "
John Thornburg, Newport "
Elmira, N. Y., was visited by a tire last
week which destroyed property to the
amount of $30,000.
In New Orleans the Picayuneolliec and
a number of other buildings were burnt
down. Doss heavy, but mostly insured.
The neighborhood of Waynesboro',
Franklin county, is at present infested with
incendiaries and thieves. A barn has been
burnt, and some other buildings tired, doubt
less with the intention of drawing the peo
ple from their houses.
The Planters' Cotton Factory, at Rich
mond, V a., was destroyed by lire on Mon
day last. Insured for SOO,OOO.
An unoccupied log eabin was burnt at
Hollidaysburg on Saturday last.
Mr. McDuflic and Mr. Preston, of South
Carolina, excepting John C. Calhoun, the
most brilliant and commanding politicians
of South Carolina since the days of
Pirickney, we regret to learn, are now in
utter and hopeless inbccility and idiocy,
from softening of the brain—the disease
which terminated the intellectual life of
Southey so long before his physical decease.
So we read in the New York Tribune,
but we cannot but hope there is some mis
take in thi-.
How the People's Ittoncy Govs.
Some time ago the Senate passed a reso
lution, calling upon the Canal Commis
sioners for information in regard to a sale
which had been made of certain engines,
to which a reply was returned, exhibiting
the name of each engine sold, the name of
the purchaser, and the amount for which
it was sold, vi;:
j Indiana—Wm. Dripta,
Schuylkill—J. B. Moorchead, 810 i
; Montgomery—Thomas Jeffries, 570 ■
j Wisconsin—Dr. Rowan, < 590 j
I Mississippi—Thomas Jeffries, 545 i
$3,390 |
Sixty day's notice of the time and place i
of the sale was given. These engines j
which were thus sold at the value of old !
iron, cost upwards of thirty thousand dot- :
lars, and the Superintendent of the Co- :
! lumbia Kailroad representhd that they 1
could he " j>ut and kr?ft in good running
order for light business at a trifling ex
-5 o
: pense !"
; The reply, says a correspondent of the
I North American, was not considered sufli
| ciently explicit, and more particular infor
mation has been asked for by the Senate j
; in relation to the opinion of the Canal j
| Board of the real value of the engines, j
which appear to have been sacrificed by
the Commissioners, probably to satisfy the !
! particular private purposes of some gentle- i
| man or gentlemen who are in their favor. ,
Some disclosures may be made on the sub- :
jeet, if the question asked be distinctly ■
■ answered by the Board ; and many other
; revelations would be made if a similar j
course were pursued in regard to other '
transactions, the enormity of which is fully
understood but by a few. The possession
of the federal government is almost daily
revealing the conduct of some defaulting 1
officer ; and were men to secure a majority
in the Canal Board who would have no
interest in keeping secret some of the inys- ;
terious transactions of the officers on the ,
public works, many revelations would be
made which would astonish the honest j
J tax-payers of the JStnU- who do not imagine
the unworthy and dishonest means used by
selfish office-holders to enrich themselves
at the expense of the State Treasury and ;
the State's interest.
Another l)lh of foflee.
The recent rise in the price of Coffee
gave us *un opportunity of turning some
locofoco artillery on that party, and from
the fluttering along the Juniata apparently
with some effect. The Democrat, Stan
dard, Ac., seem to have understood the ;
drift of our remarks in using weapons
heretofore employed by themselves, but
the Juniata Register, being as yet uninitiated
into the sublime ethics ol locofocodom, !
" out-llerods Herod" in his virtuous indig- j
nation against this '• infamous attempt at
deception !" Nay more—the man is so
astonished that he can hardly believe such
a thing would appear in the Lewistown
Gazette, and therefore has to look a second
time to see if it could be it) lie thinks
we must have known better, and stoutly
contends that the Tariff has " no more to t
do with it than a tariff on boot jacks in
New Orleans would with the price of but- !
ter in Lewistown."
The editor then proceeds to make known
the great respect he has for us, and shows
it by calling us knave, fool, Ac. Well,
we will not retort on our friend down the
river bv calling him hard names, (because
; it is not only against our nature but against
the resolution lately adopted in editorial
convention,) but we must say that if Mr.
■ Cooper don't know that his party papers
—the Register included—only a few years
ago told the people that the tariff of 'lO
had put up the price of wheat, Ac., when
a famine existed in Europe, he must be
decidedly "green" in polities, or awfully I
deficient in memory.
But is there any attempt at deception in
the paragraphs referred to ■ The lirst ex
pected a rise in the Juniata from the tears
of our brethren, and the other laid it down
as a simple fact that if the tariff of '46'
had raised the price of wheat when a
famine existed in Europe, the same tariff
must have raised the price of coffee also.
There is certainly nothing unreasonable in
forming such a deduction, and we think the
readers of the Register will not be quite
so hot-headed as their champion of the
British tariff has been in demolishing us,
after reading the quotations and the sensi
ble remarks thereunto attached. And be
sides, what will they think of their editors
who a few years ago taught them that this
vaunted tariff had put up wheat to #2 T
If they believe what the Register now says,
i all the loeofoco oditors in the State, saving
and excepting M r. ('ooper, must be KNAVES,
FOOLS, and INFAMOUS DECEIVERS, or else
they must possess the faculty in a wondci
ful degree, of straining at a fence rail and
swallowing a barn door.
i The North Pennsylvania!! is the title
of the new paper about to be established
at Towanda, Bradford county, by Mr.
Wien Forney, to oppose Wilmot,
Reform in Sur York.
.Messrs. Looniis, Graham ami Field, all
lawyers of high standing, who had beer
appointed by the Legislature of New York
to revise the codes of Civil and Criminal
Procedure, have submitted the result ol
their labors. In their report thev say—
" The purpose of the constitutional provision
and of the statute under which this code is pre
pared, was to make legal proceedings more in
telligible, more certain, more speedy, and less
expensive. I lerctofore the records of the courts
have been sealed books to the mass of the people.
Though concerned in them as suitors, and par
ticipating in them as jurors, they were repulsed
by strange forms and technical language, li
the law could have been administered with ab
solute certainty, without delay and without ex
pense, yet if it had been unintelligible to them,
it would not have been satisfactory. In a coun
try where the people are sovereign, where they
elect all officers, even the Judges themselves,
where education is nearly universal, it was not
long possible to keep the practice of the courts
enveloped in mystery.
"The commissioners have never lost sight of
these considerations. In aiming at directness
and efficiency, they have aimed also at diffusing
a knowledge of legal proceedings; and there is,
they trust, nothing in this code which any per
son of ordinary intelligence and education can
not understand. And although the law of rights
is a vast science, the accumulation of numerous
countries and ages, which it requires study and
patience to learn, yet it is believed, that the
practice of the courts is here set forth in such a
manner, that no person need have occasion to
witness a legal proceeding, read a pleading or
render a verdict, the meaning of which he docs
not comprehend."'
That the Reform devised by the Com
missioners is thorough and radical, will ap
pear from the following paragraph of their
reported Code under the title ol Civil
Actions ;
" The distinction between actions at law and
suits in equity, and the forms of ali sucli actions
and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished : and
there shall be in this State, but one form of ac
tion for the enforcement or protection of private
rights, and the redress or prevention of private
wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil ac
tion."
It is to be regretted that our Legislature
does not take some steps to simplify the
practice in this State, and bring it within
the comprehension of the masses. At
present suits are brought in one form , and
after years of expensive litigation decided
in the lower courts—they are then taken
to the Supreme Court, which probably de
cides that (mother form ought to have been
adopted, and the whole farce has to be
enacted over again with a mere change of
words. In criminal cases, indictments are
drawn up with ridiculous technicalities, and
if any one is omitted, or a word wrong,
tiie whole thing is '• quashed." All this,
with the attending expense, might be easily
remedied by adopting a practice similar to
that recommended bv the New York Com
missioners.
I'ROl LEDIVt.S OF COYtiRESS.
The subject of slavery is still the lead
ing topic at Washington, and we suppose
will continue to be until the dog-days,
when perhaps hydrophobia may leave the
bipeds now infected with it and attack the
canine species. In the course of the de
bate which took place in the I*. S. Senate
when the subject of the admission of Cal.
ifornia was under deliberation, Mr. FOOTE
of Miss., who makes it a point to interrupt
every Senator that attempts to make a
speech, reminded Mr. Clay that he was
from a slave State, whereupon the old
Kentuckian responded as follows :
It ii totally unnecessary for the gentleman to
remind me of my coming from a slaveholding
State. 1 know whence I cotne, and 1 know my
duty, and 1 am ready to submit to any responsi
bility which belongs to me as a Senator from a
slaveholding State. Sir, 1 have heard some
thing said on this and on a former occasion
about allegiance to the South 1 know no
South, no North, no East, no West, to which I
owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two
sovereigns, and only two ; one is to the sove
reignty of this Fnion, and the other is to the sove
reignty of the State of Kentucky. My allegi
ance is to this Union and to my State; but if
gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an
acknowledgment of allegiance to any ideal or
future contemplated confederacy of the South,
I here declare that 1 owe no allegiance to it;
nor will I, for one, come under any such allegi
ance if 1 can avoid it. 1 know what my dutie*
are, and gentlemen may cease to remind me of
the fact that 1 come from a slaveholding State.
Several Senators have made remarks
upon Mr. Clay's resolutions, all of which
are in the same strain as the following by
Mr. Downs :
He contended that slavery was not an evil—
that the slaves ali through the South were hap
py and rejoicing—the best fed and the best
clothed people in the world. He drew a com
parison between them and the. factory operatives
referred to in a .speech made by Mr. Hale,
some time since, asserting, that the condition of
the slave is far the happiest and best. He al
luded to the statistics of poverty in Nietv \ ork,
and defied her iSenaturs to show that her poor
population was even equal in their condition to
the much pitied slaves of the South. In con
clusion he summed up the history of the
slave question, from the foundation of the gov
ernment to the present time, contending that the
whole course of the South had been that of con
cession—while that of the North had been re
peated demands and aggressions. The South
had conceded everything which had been a<kv<i,
and now, in the licentiousness ol power, the
North no longer asked concession, but asserts
her right to ask a compromise—to grasp uie
Whole. If the North persisted in tins course—
upon herself would rest the responsibility.
In the House, a resolution offered by
Mr. Dotv t< instruct the Committee on
Territories to report a bill providing for
the admission of California as a State into
the Fnion on an equal footing with the
original States, with the bounds prescribed
by her constitution, as communicated to
the House by the President of the United
Stales, in his special message, gave rise
to quite a scene. Mr. Doty moved the
previous Question, and thereupon the south
ern members commenced making motion
to lay on llic table. to adjourn, ns!-.jn<r to
!>c excused from voting, taking appeals,
I ike., uniil fifteen minutes after midnight,
when the House finally a'djourned without
coming to a vote on the question.
On Wednesday, the slavery ,que-ti< n
was again the subject under discussion
both-Houses of Congress. Amonsr the
speakers in the House, was .Mr. Steven-,
of this State, In the Senate, the dchat.:
was more animated, and the more interest,
ing from the fact that both Mr. Clav ami
Mr. (.'ass were participants. Mr. Cass
has suddenly found himself in a peculiar
and certainly not an enviable position, the
Southern members hitting him right and
left. He however ably defended himself.
In this storm of passion and feeling, said M .
Cass, all reason seems to have been discarded :
but he desired now to speak out plainly. JJ C
had been misunderstood heretofore, but i{ would
not be his fault if misunderstood hereafter. The
storm had pas-cd over hiin and borne hint down,
fie was here for the last time, and felt that un
der all the circumstances he had the right to
speak. Slavery was an exciting institution, for
which this generation is not responsible, and he
felt that Congress had no control over it. This
he had always belie'ved and held. Hut if a man
did not believe—as he never did and never
should—that slavery v. as a blessed institution,
wise, morally and politically, he was denounced
bv certain Southern gentleman as a fanatic. On
the other hand, if a Northern man is not ready
to put the bayonet to the breast of every .South
erner in order to free the negroes, he was de
nounced a- a Northern dough face. It was thus
that the storm passed over the N'oithern Repre
sentatives, and thus that they were broken
down. Could not gentlemen see that -uch *
course as this was as ungenerous as it was im
politic? In conclusion, .Mr. Cass said that
when .Mr. Clemens suggested such a thing as a
peaceable dissolution of the Union, fie talked of
the wildest chimera ever imagined. He hoped
God would give to the councils of the nation
more of the spirit of justice, conciliation and
compromise—that the Union migbr be bound
together as with bars of Iron.
Ma. Dodge, of lowa, defended himself, a- a
Northern man, against the accusations of Mr.
Kutler. He, as a Northern man, with -everai
others, had voted continually, and until the last,
in favor of the proposition which was intended
to give law and protection to California. The
gentleman from South Caroiinia whs then ready
to give to the iTesident, who hailed from the
South, the authority to spread over that country
every class of officers—but now, when another
President had honestly done what seemed just
and proper—charges w ere made against him of
usurpation ; such charges as should impel the
Senator making them—if he believed them—to
seek the impeachment of Zachary Taylor- He
then alluded to the distribution of political hon
ors in California, and showed most conclusively
that the people of the South had not ouiv
shared them, but that they had received nearly
the whole ol' them. What, then had tlie South
to fear from the admission of a State which had
shown so strongly its partiality for them?
Pennsylvania Legislature.
In the Senate, on the. 15th .Mr. Malone
presented a petition praying for the pas
sage of a law authorizing hawkers and
pedlars to peddle throughout the Com
monwealth.
Mr. C unuingham, six petitions praying
for authority to erect a poor hdhse in tiie
county of Mifflin.
In the Senate, on the 16th, .Mr. Cun
ningham presented four remonstrances
against the erection of a poor house in the
county of Mifflin.
The bill providing for the election of
Reporter of the Supreme Court was again
called up. The question was upon the
reconsideration of the vote which negatived
the motion to transcribe for a third reading.
The Senate refused to reconsider without
a call for the yeas and nays. 80 this
measure was killed, and we hope the Gov
ernor will now go on to make the appoint
ment, the place being vacant, and relieve
our locofoco friends from the intense dis
tress into which they were thrown by hi
failure to make it so long as the Legisla
ture threatened 10 deprive hiin of the right
of doing so.
The following resolutions, Cc., relative
to tlu; Washington National Monument,
passed final reading—yeas 28, nays 3 :
Resolvtd by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fn (.<-
cral Hsstmbhj met. That the Governor is hereby
authorized and requested to cause an appropri
ate block of the native marble of this Common
wealth, to be conveyed to the National Cap
itol, to take its place in the monument to the
memory of Washington, and to have inscribe!
thereon the State coat of arms, and these word
" PENNSYLVANIA,
FOUNDED
1681,
BY DEEDS OF PEACE. M
Resolved, That a sum not exceeding one tfio.;-
sand dollars, is hereby appropriated lor the pur
pose of carrying out the provisions of the f ra
going resolution.
In the House. 011 the 16th, the billstq
plementarv to the art relating to
and townships, and efflthtv and towns. up
ollieers, came up in order for considera
tion ; [The bill gives the Court of Quarter
Sessions power to lix the place for hohiind
elections, at the place a majority of hie
qualified voters may designate, ami ex
cepts the city and county of Philadelphia
from its provisions. It also directs the
manner of giving notice of application lor
a change, by publication in newspapers
printed 111 the county. ' and passed he. i
reading—yeas 61, nays 15.
In the House, on the 18th. the I
erecting parts of Columbia eountv, into >
new county to be called Montour, eanw
upon a thin! reading ; the question pend
ing being a motion to postpone its further
consideration until to-morrow.
Mr. I'nek moved to amend the motion,
by postponing the subject until Tuesday
week ; which was not agreed to —yea-11.
nays 16.
The question reeuyring on the ntotio i
to postpone until to-morrow, it was mo -
tived without a division.
The bill then passed final reading h>
the following vote :—yeas 15. nays IU
tin leave given, Mr. M:\iv\lev read '
his place and presented to the chaw, a joitd
resolution relating to the volunteers ol
war of 1812, as follows :
Resolved, That our Senators in Congress i"
hereby instructed, and our Rcprerentith*"
quested to use thair t>et elicit- lu pioeure i