GAZETTE. jwisrewN, PA. AY EVENING, MAY 10, ISSO. TEHMS : O\T 80LL.4 St ITIJ A ANI IH, IV ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. 53=* All NEW subscriptions must be paid in ad vane 3. 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. Renew yonr Subscriptions. The present and ensuing month closes the year for a large number of subscribers. Those who wish to take advantage of the advance terms, had better send on their .money, as A DOLLAR will now pay for a year—a fact worth remembering. Notices of Advertisements. A Steam Saw Mill is advertised for sale. Nusbaum, Brothers, olfer their entire stock of goods at cost, intending to engage in other pur suits. Walter Liiley having sold out his store, wants his books closed. Kennedy ik Porter have received a heavy sup ply of western provisions, which will be sold very low. >lr. I'. Rhodes cautions the public respecting some property. Dr. J. B. Mitchell has received some new ar ticles. An auditor's "notice also appears to-day. - >r' We have been requested to state that Dr. LAMBERT will deliver a Lecture this (Friday) evening on tiie Causes and Preservation of Beauty, Health, and ' Strength—illustrated by the Modelle D'llomme, representing upwards of 1700 parts of the Human System of the natural color, form and size, viz : Hones, Muscles, Nerves, Brain, Heart, Lungs, Stomach, Liver, Ac. These lectures are spoken of in some of our exchange papers as being very interesting and well attended. HIP The recent rains have caused a con siderable rise in the Susquehanna and its tributaries, which, owing to the facilities orTered by the Pennsylvania Railroad for returning home, will enable the lumbermen to make their third trip this season. - i r~F Workmen have been busily em ployed for several days in grading the road from the Levvistown r four different stories. By continuing to give " another version" weekly, it may eventually stumble on the right one. SUPREME COURT.—The annual session ol the Supreme Court commences at llar risburg on Monday, the 13th instant. ] he following are the return days for the different counties : Lancaster, Mav 13. York and Adams, May.2o. Mifflin, Hunt ingdon and Blair, May 23. Centre, Clear field and Clinton, May 29. Cumberland, Perry and Juniata, June 3. franklin and Bedford, June 13. Berks, June 17. J.eb-! anon and Dauphin, June 21. 'CONVENT WX OK WOMEN.—Some four .u five hundred ladies held a convention at Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 19th ult., for the .purpose of taking meas ures to advance their " rights." A series •of strong resolutions were adopted, as well us an address to the Constitution Keforrn 4 Convention, praying the insertion of a pro vision granting to women the rip lit of suf frage and other political and legal rights guaranteed to men. The subjects were debated with much spirit. MONTOUR COUNTY. —The application for a new county, out of part of ( olumbia county, to be called Montour, with Dan ville for the sent of Justice, has passed both branches of the Legislature, and been signed by the Governor. It will be the smallest county in the Stale, but will have much manufacturing wealth. The \ortb Brutb fanal. Mr.Smyser,t!ie able representative from Adams county, recently delivered a speech in the House of Representatives, which gives some facts of importance relative to this work, lie contended that •' The specific appropriation asked for in this bill is unnecessary, because the thirty-fith sec tion ot the act of 10th April, 1840, (Pamphlet laws, page 642,) already gitfes to this improve ment all the surplus monies that, after the 15th of Aagust in every year, shall remain in the Treasury, after meeting the interest on the State debt, and other necessary appropriations. Under this act the North Branch already has had appropriated to it $150,000 for the year ending the 15th of August next: of which about $50,000 only has been drawn out and ex pended, leaving an undrawn balance of $120,- 000 still applicable to this work ; and they will be entitled to whatever surplus may remain in the Treasury on the 15th of August next, in addition ; and so on every year, until the canal is finished to the State line. When we thus gave them all we had, surely we had no right to anticipate a demand for more. 1 say nothing now of the policy of passing that law. 1 had no hand in passing it. Had I been a member of the Legislature when it passed, 1 should pro bably have voted against it, and demanded that our surplus means should all be carefully hus banded, and faithfully applied to the payment of our debt and the reduction of our taxes; not, sir, from any unfriendly feeling towards this improvement, or the section of the State through which it passes, for which 1 entertain the most cordial and friendly feelings; but from a sense of the more pressing duty I owe to my immediate constituents. But, sir, that question is not now before us. The law is on our Statute Book ; and we have only to obey its reqisitions." Mr. S. then proceeds to show the ap propriation w oiild in all probability lead to an increase of tlie State debt, and then i adds— " In tiie year IR4'J the Stßte, finding the ! present and prospective condition of her fuian ; ces such that she was unable to prosecute to completion this and the Erie canal, passed two laws, giving them each to companies, on condi tion that they would complete them in a cer j tain time, reserving to the Common wealth the right to resume them at any time after 1887, on condition of repaying to the companies the cost of their completion with seven per cent, interest, and deducting therefrom the amount of dividends declared and received by the 1 stockholders. At this time there had been ex pended on the North Branch canal, including .damages and interest, the sum of nearly #4,000,000: and, according to the report and estimate of Win. B. Foster, Esq., a distin guished engineer, it would have required #1,106,037 to complete it lrom the mouth of the Lackawanna to the New York State line, m Athens township, Bradford county. 1: will thus be seen that the opportunity was afforded to the inhabitants of Northern Pennsylvania, to appropriate to thcmsel ves #4.tH)O,tMM) already expended by the St-iteon condition of their in vesting and expending only a little over one million. Under this, certainly very liberal grant, the citizens of North Western Pennsylvania, pro ceeded to organize a company, in compliance with thp terms of the law. and completed the Erie canal. True, they had not the money to invest in it. But they went to work on it them selves ; shouldered their picks and spades and shovels; put in their own labor, sweat and toil, in lieu of money; pushed on the work with enterprize and judgement; and succeeded, as judgement and enterprize always succeed, in accomplishing the work. Their canal is now in successful operation, without its costing the State one additional dollar. They never asked for an v. A feeble attempt seems to iiave been made to accomplish the same result in relation to 'he North Branch. A company was organized ; $150,000 of the stock was taken by the citizens of the county adjacent. The residue, about $900,000. they Buffered to fall into the hands of New York " fancy" inon and speculators, who, failing to pay."the enterprize was aban doned, end hB never been resumed, nor at tempted to be resumed. Now, sir, one of tw o conclusions is inevitable, father this work does not promise the realiza tion of the golden harvest when completed, which we are now so confidently promised, or the people of this region have manifested such a want of perseverence and enterprize, as not to entitle them, with a very good grace, to in voke the aid of the legislature again. But the latter supposition does them injustice. They are intelligent, industrious, enterprising people, rich in all the elements of social greatness a.id individual worth ; and would never have aban doned so promising an enterprize, commenced under such favorable auspices—they never would have suffered the stock to be monopo lized by foreign speculators, and these foreign speculators never would have relinquished the undertaking, had it really promised to yield as rich returns as we are now assured it will." THE UNION CANAL. —W'c learn from the Lebanon Courier, that preliminary steps are now being taken for the enlargement of this important link between the Schuyl kill and Susquehanna. It is the intention of the Company to proceed as far as pos sible before stopping the navigation, which they expect to do in October. They de sign having it so far completed as to be ready for opening with the first Spring business. GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE for June is already up on our table, embellished with several fine steel engravings, among which The Jolly Hide is an excellent one, and an abundance of literary 'natter from its able contributors. For the suc ceeding volume the enterprising publisher offers the following inducements: f or tj-l, remitted for the volume from July, 1 &.">(), to July, we will send as premiums two magnificent engravings, ' The First Prayer,' It inches wide and inches long, a new and splendid mezzotint of a mother teaching her child the first and earliest duty of life, and also "Christ lllessing Little Children." For $5 in advance for two years, or for tw o subscribers one year, we will also send both the above.— Clubs liberally dealt with. Address George 11. Graham, 134 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. The publisher has also favored us with a por trait of Jtxst Livn, intended for the July num ber of Graham, .splendidly engraved on steel. It represents the .Swedish Nightingale as she appeared in La Sotnnambula. > . Twenty indiv lduals belonging 1o Carlisle in thin State, are about to leave for Califor nia. ('oMißEs.i. —The Representa tives lias been engaged in discussing the Census Bill —an Ret which ought to have been passed long ago. One portion con tends that the government has no right to do more than take an enumeration of the number of inhabitants, while the other hold out for statistical information. On lite Bth, Mr. Clay, front the Special Committee of Thirteen, introduced the report of the committee, of which the fol lowing is an abstract: Ist. The Committee are unanimously of opinion, that new States may be formed out of Texas, under the terms of the com pact entered into by the United States, in the resolution of annexation : and that when they are so formed, they have a clear and undoubted right to be admitted into the Union as equal States; but the i Committee do not think that any plan for j the formation of the new States out of I Texas, should be originated by Congress, ; but should be left to the people of Texas; I also, that such new State should he admit | ted without any objection on that account ; of the exclusion or permission of slavery. 2. In considering the question of the j admission of California, a majority of the Committee are of opinion that every ir ! regularity in the proceedings antecedent to | her application for admission into the 1 nion should, in consideration of the many circumstances of her position, be over- I looked, and recommend the passage of the hill reported by Mr. Douglas for her ad mission into the I nion as a State. 3. The Committee also think it quite necessary that a Territorial Government should be furnished for the Territories of ; Utah and New Mexico. They had been | abandoned, were inhabited by a mixed [ and unusually varied population, and were equally as deserving til proper govern ments, and should have them speedily. They were unfit, at present, for State * Governments, and the Committee recom mend that the admission of California and the bill providing Territorial Governments be incorporated in one measure, and passed together as one measure. They also re ; commend that the bills l>e passed without the WiJmot Proviso being attached to the territories. They consider the Wilmot Proviso, as applied to these Terri tones A | mere abstraction. 4. The Committee report, as an addi tional section to the California and Terri torial bill, a provision determining the boundaries of New Mexico and Texas, as follows :—The boundary of Texas shall be the Rio Grande up to a [H>int 20 miles north of El Paso Del Norte, thence the line shall run due north along the one hundredth parallel of longitude till it strikes the Red River, and this line of longitude shall be the eastern boundary of New M exieo—this line includes within New Mexico the town of Santa Fe and a large portion of the disputed territory, for which 1 the bill proposes to pa\ Texas blank mil- I lions of dollars in stocks, at half-yearly in terest —the principal to he paid at the end >of fourteen tears. It is supposed that the I sum agreed upon will be Irom six to ten millions. 5. The Committee report a ortion to , he addco to Mason's bill 111 relation to fu gitive slaves. It provides that every mas ter, before he goes into another State to recover his slave, shall go before some competent tribunal and establish the fact ! of elopement of property, and of descrip tion of slave, and with these facts attested by a competent record, and upon present ing them to an officer, the slave shall he , rendered up to liiin. Also, that if a slave declares his freedom, lie shall have a trial for his freedom on return to the State from w Itieli lie has escaped. 6. That slavery ought not to be abol ished in the District of Columbia. 7. The majority of the Committee re port a bill for the suppression of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, upon the model of the law lately enforced in Maryland. The report is very voluminous, and oc cupied more than an hour in the reading. I After some debate the California and Territorial bills were ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay moved to print the bill for the suppression of the slave trade. ; Mr. Phelps, one of the Committee, said ; he did not agree with the Committee, ex cept on the conclusion to be drawn from resolutions of the annexation of Texas. Mr. Mason, one of the Committee, said that he was so unfortunate as to differ from the Committee upon nearly all the ques tions reported upon by it. Mr. Cooper said that he agreed with the Committee upon several points, but differed on several others—particularly with the reasons and arguments of the re- port. Mr. Downs, one of the Committee, ex pressed his dissent from the report on all : the grounds, particularly upon admitting California with her present boundaries. Mr. Herricn, one of the Committee, differed from the report ol the Committee on nearly all the points, lie could not consent to admit California with her present boundaries, or with two Representatives in the House of Representatives. Mr. Mangurti, one of the Committee, said he differed from the result ot the Committee on many points, but as aw hole, would sustain and vote to carry it out in every particular. Mr. Clemens said that the report was Mr. Clay's plan, submitted early in the session, and he could not vote for it, bc | cause it was violative of the Constitution. Mr. Clay denied the justice ol pouncing on a report before its contents was known perfectly. Mr. Foote said he would support the | report of the Committee. ; Mr. ('lemons replied. Mr. Yulee—The report is a legislative scheme of the ('ornmittee, with nothing i more than Mr. t lay's resolutions, and thev had been condemned long ago. lie should not support it. Mr. Borland opposed the whole affair. Mr. Hale hoped the South would stand firm in opposition ; but he was very much afraid the opposition was a mere feint. Mr. Houston advocated the motion to print. He was in favor of compromise and the Union, and wanted to read the re port before he made up his mind. Mr. Cass said the report should he ex amined before condemned. He would support it as a whole measure. Mr. Dickinson said that he was in favor of printing the report as a whole measure. The matter had his hearty concurrence. He hail assented to the report, though the reasoning was not his own. lie had con sented to the conclusion of the report to which the Committee had arrived, though he would have drawn the reasonings dif ferently. He would support the bills re ported, because of the circumstances, while he was free to admit they were very dif ferent from what he would have drawn himself. Mr. Jefferson Davis said he was very willing the report should be printed, but lie was prepared to vote against it. Mr. Bright said he would support the measure as a whole, but if it could not carry lie would go for the admission of California at the earliest moment. The bill and report were then ordered to be printed, and the Senate adjourned at half past four o'clock. In the House, the Census Bill, after be ing amended so as to limit the number of members under the next apportionment to 233, was linails passed—yeas 100, nays (51. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the I nion, on the California Message. Mr. WINTHROP having the floor, said he would yield to no one in honesty, in ear nestness, and intensity of desire to see evcrv bone of contention broken—to see every root of bitterness removed from the Hall —to see Congress restored to its capa city to discharge its legitimate functions, by providing for the wants of Government and happiness of the people—desirous as he was for this, there was one sacrifice he would not make, even for all the glory which might result from the success of ex alted service. He should follow his own, and not the convictions of others. He as- sumed no attitude of pacification, no new plan for adjustment. Still less had he sought the floor to enter into fresh personal controversy. His purpose was to explain his own views. He then alluded to the circumstances under which he offered the non-slavery proviso to the Oregon bill, in February, 1813, and under which he voted for the Wilmot Proviso to the three million bill, lie justified these acts. Whatever hope there was of reconciling conflicting claims, there was no probability United States of America, } No. 80, April T , 1 1850. Property sold I .March 30th, 1850, I .lames Potter. J tor s£s3o. ffflHF subscriber appointed nudi'or by tlie X Court of Common Pleas of Miffiin county to distribute the above proceeds of safe, ap- , points TUESDAY, the ISth day of JUNE next, at his office, in Lewistown, to hear ihe parties interested, when nn l where they tire hereby to attend. WM. M. HALL. may 10, 1850 —lt TO LUMBERMEN STEAM SAW-MILL FOR SALE. \N ENGINE of fourteen horse power, lm* only been in use cue year. The boiler m 33 inches diameter and 28 feet long. There is a eh?el iron chimney 10 feet high belong* to it. The saw has a twenty-eight inch stroke. The engine and mill is all in complete order, and will be sold very cheap. Inquire of KESSLER & PRO., Mill ("reek, Huntingdon Co., Pa. May 10, 1850—lm* Qrij- Huntingdon Journal and Johnstown News publish to amount of isl, and charge this office. IT O T I S E . rptHE subscribers have received a generi l X stock ot Western Provisions, as follows: 15,000 lbs. Cincinnati HAM 7,000 lbs. do SHOULDER 4,000 lbs. do FLLL'CH 5 bbls. No. 1 LEAF LARD 3 bbls. No. 1 LARD OIL, perfectly pure 15 casks SOUP BEANS 10 bags DRIED PEACHES 5 Cisks CANVASSED SVG All CURED HAMS 5 do DRIED BEEF 25 doz Ohio CORN BROOMS. ! 25 boxes Western Reserve.Ohio,Cl IKESE | 30 do MOULD CANDLES, at only 121 ! cents per single lb. —sold at other stores at 15c 25 kegs Duncannon NAILS, tjvl 25 per kg 150 bbls. Monongahela RYE WHISKEY 3 do do 8 yrs old pure Rve 12 bags green RIO COFFEE, best quality, at only 12$ cents per pound. The above goods were ail received during i.the past week, direct from Pittsburgh. The subscribers continue to SELL orr their stock of 5? i* jo oils at Cost, unt ! the first of June next. Families will find it their interest to give us a call and see for themselves, as we are deter mined to close our stock of Dry Goods. Boots and Slines AT ANY PRICE that is offered, if near cost. KENNEDY &. PORTER. Lewistown, may 10, ISso—3t Selling off at Cost SO. MISTAKE!! INTENDING to relinquish the Dry Goods business in this place and engaging in otiier pursuits, the splendid stock of Goods now on the shelves and counters of MM, BROTHERS, comprising, in great variety, all the leading articles usually found in a carefully selected slock, and a considerable quantity of FINE GOODS not always to be had, will be sold off \T COST. As is well known, we have always sold CHEAP, and as the stock was purchased RIGHT— we may say without boasting, as low as any one couid have bought it—it will be SOLD RIGHT. The selection consists of Fancy A: Staple Wry Goods Such as Fancy Prints at all prices. Gingham?, Checks, Alpacas, De Lames, Merinoee, Silks of ali kißds, and a genera] assort ment of Ladies' Dress Goods. Cloths. Cassimeres & Satinetts, Jeans, Tweeds, Kerseys, Flannels, &c. Kleaclicd & Itrown Hu*lin, Ticking, Shawls, Ribbons, Laces, Capstufts, Fringes, Gimps, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspen ders, Combs, &.c &.c. 3DD*3 m 31033, AND READY MADE CLOTHING, Together with a good and genera! assortment if GROCERIES. Should any one be desirous of purchas ing the whole 6tock, it will be sold a bargain. The stand is a good one, and in such case pos session would be given in a short time. P. S.—All persons indebted on the books are earnestly requested to call and make settle ment on or before FIRST DAY OF J USE J YE XT., a? after that date they will be placed in the hands of an officer for collection. A LL persons are hereby cautioned against IV levying on, molesting, or otherwise dis- turbing the following properly purchased by me at Constable's Sale on the 2d instant, viz: One bay Horse and Gears, two Carts, one Half Wugon, four head of Hogs, one red anJ one white Heifer, one red Bull, one white and one red Cow, one lot of Wheat in the ground, and five acres of Oats, Which property 1 have loaned to Joseph Rhodes during my will and pleasure. PETER RHODES. Oliver tp., may 10, 1650 —3i* PETROLEUM OR ROCI OIL. A Ureal l\at lira 1 ltcmeriy, PROCURED from a well 400 feet deep, and possessing wonderful curative powers in diseases of the chest, wind-impk and luxes. Also, for the cure of diarrhoea, piles, gout, rheu matism. asthma, bronchitis, scrofula, burns and scalds, tetter, ring-worm, obstinate eruptions of the skin, blotches and pimples on the face, biles, deafness, chronic sere eyes, ery sipelas, pains in the bones and joints, and all that class of diseases in which alterative or purifying medicines are indicated. Forealeby may 10 J. R. MITCHELL. ."\re