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Towanda, Wednesday,. Feb'y 11, 1840
PARTICULAR. Nonce.—We are soul to be again
compe lkd to call the attention of thorn indebted to r. 8.
GOODRICH and E. t 3. Mitigates & Bon, that payment
has been delayed, until forbearance has ceased to be
ai nue. The notes, accounts, &c., must be pad ; and
if net paid by Unitary court, they will be put in comae
of collection, every cent of them.
Ptactssrr—Viar.—The Postmaster at Burlington,
informs as that the Reporter addressed to B. M. Tomp
kins and Wm. E. Campbell, dead in the office. The
former has run away, and the Lauer don't take his from
the office. Both into the Printer, • a feet," of course.
W;Tcrnas 0011 TaiNKI to those who have so
promptly accepted our general invitation, and ',ruled up,
while thole who have taken no heed, cannot now find
Ault, at a more personal and pressing notice.
E The Armstrong Bank Veto.
We published last v 4 the Message of Gov. Shank,
vetoing the Armstrong Coady Bank. We were obliged
then to defer our remarks, nor is it now our intention to
enterinto a full discussion and defence of the principles
embraced in this message. But we cannot permit the
=salon to pus, without expressing our commendation
of this able Veto, and its sound and healthy doctrines.
If any act of Gov. Bhunk i ecould raise him higher in the
confidence sadaftbetions of the people of Pennsylvania,
it is this firm and decided stand he has taken in defence
of the rights and interests of the community, by opposing
the creation of more Banks, and the consequent evils
which are the result of permitting an unguarded and in:
fisted system of Banking. In his annual menage, the
Governor most emphatically and clearly defines his views
and intentions in regard to the individual liability princi
ple, and no part of the Message met with a more cor
dial and hearty welcome from the Democracy.
One of the first official acts of the Governor, after the
meeting of the Legislature, was to veto the bill incorpo.
rating the Armstrong County Bank. This bill proposed
the establishment of a Bank at Kittanine, with a capital
of fifty thousand - dollars, to be in reased to one handiest
thousand dollars at the option of the stockholders. The
stockholders are made individually liable for the notes
issued, but not for monies deposited. This evasion, in
part, of securing the rights of community, the Governor
has plainly shown, end it forms an insuperable objection
-to the bill.
"The Annual Report' of the County Commissioners
ts published today. We congratulate the citizens of the
county upon the improved condition of the County Fi
nances. The report bears evidence dat the edministra•
tion of otLZ . itty affairs has fallen into competent hands.
It gives re, although the board is politically op
posed to us, to bear testimony to the faithful manner in
which the affairs of the county have been conducted, of
ba"
The hurt Argus - contains the abate paragraph. We
are perfectly, astonished. But we bit* that this glimpse
of returning veracity and honesty is but the foreshadow
ing of a determination on the part of thp Argue, to aban
don their fil- natured end habilis, and pursue a
more dignified and manly course.
Bradford County Court.
FIRST WEEK
Motrnsa, February 2, 1848.
Present, Judges CONTNOILIM, President, Harry Mor
gan and Reuben Wilber, Associate&
CONIMONWE•LTH O. ALVIN FCRYLN.—John Higgs,
prosecutor. The defendant was indicted for committing
an assault and battery on John Higgs, on the eleventh
day of November, 1845, in Columbia township. The
defendant pleaded, Not Guilty. The substance of the
evidence was, that John Higgs called for liquor at the
her of Mr. Furman, (brother of the defendant) and was
refused. as be was intoxicated at the time. On being
refused, Higge got angry, and used some insulting lan
guage to the defendant. ) After a little altercation between
the prosecutor and the defendant, the prosecutor having
had the defendant cornered up, and in the attitude of
smiting several times, the defendant being but a boy,
sought an opportunity, and struck the prosecutor on the
head, with a large iron shoveL
The Jury rendered • verdict of Not Guilty, and that
the County pay the 'costs.
Cow. vs. Jour M. Piee.—Simons Lockwood, prose
cutor. The defendant was indicted for forgery. The
alleged forgery consisted in signing Simons Lockwood's
name to a settlement purporting to have , been made in
defendants cook, between the prosecutor and de fe ndant,
which reads as follows
!, The above $507 89, found due John M Pike.
" March 7, 1814. BiNICINS Ler XI/FOOD. "
Aflet hearing the testimony on the part of the prosecu
tion, it was discovered that there was some defect in the
indictment. The defendant consented that one of the
jury might be withdrawn, and the suit was discontinued.
CONI.T6. ELIZi BA riar.--John H. Fa rman, prose
cutor. The defendant was indicted for stealing four $5
Bank bills. on the . I , othltlay of January, 1846, from pro.
secutor. The def dant being arraigned, pleaded Guil
ty. The Court sentenced her to restore the property
stolen, if not already restored, to the proper owner, or
its full nine ; to psi the him amount to the Common
wealth, pay the casts of prosecution, and to be confined
at hard labor for the apace of six months in the jail of
Bradford County.
Cost. Ti. Cearwroramt F.T.—E. D. Montanye, pro
secutor. Indictment for larceny. Detendimt pleaded
Not Guilty: The only evidence against the defendant
was what iras sworn to by his son, Garret Fay. Garret
was in the employ of the Messrs. Mentanye's, and was
in their store at times, assisting as a cleric He swore
that he had taken at various times, from the store of the
Montanyes, broad-cloth, eassimere, shoes, shirting, cof
fee, &e., Ikr.., which he gave to his father, or left them
wherikis father should get them, and that his father did
get them. Garret Fay had at this term been indicted for
taking the same articles. The Jury rendered a verdict
of Not Guilty.
Cox. vs. G Ps v.—The defendant was indicted
for feloniously taking from the store of Mean. Montan
yes' & Co., broad-cloth, eassimen, shoes, sheeting, cof
fee, &e., &c. The defendant pleaded °WILY. The court
certify, that Garret Fay, convicted in said court of an
affiance, which, under the existing taws, would be pun.
fishable by imprisonmeat io the Penitentiary is, in the
judgment of the said court, declared a proper subject for
the Rouse of Refuge.
Cox. n. Maar Poor, COUNILICA Poor. and Nue
sox Poor.—The defSadants were indicted for stealing
shingle of R. Wilcox, of Albany. The jury rendered a
•enflct of guilty of taking 1300 shingles, of the Talus of
$h 20.
Ting Mon Hon 71 between Towanda and Williams.
Is" refight as well be abolished. n far ma regards rem:-
lar and speedy eommuniattion. i . !satters'and papers are
frequently a week in coming from Harrisburg here. The
fault lies to the eharge of the pato:mans at Williams.
polo of Nonhaniberland.
The LetteraC t our Harrisburg torrespondent has not
bowneectired, and we are obliged to depend upon oar
wimps fix Legioative information.
•
Tel DixociATtc Rsvisile.--Tlin Review, tie Ana
sly, is an unusually aunnetive imam :The contents
are as Aglow,: . .
L The Reciprocal lothienee of the Physielificiences.
andFtte
' lostitutboa.
U. The Pattie of NoAh America ; its nomenclature.
habits, bonne and seasons; With dints on the scienceof
Wouditill- - By Frank Foss-star. No. IL The Woad.
cock.
Sunday Sonnete.
IV. Prospects of the Legal Profession in America.
V. The Mystery. By R S. S. Andros,.
VI. - Papers Of an old Dartmouth Prisoner. Edited
by Nathaniel Haathoroe.
VII. lklanufarturo of Wool, Silk, Cotton and Flax,
Ancient end Modem.
VIII. The Polish Revolution of 1830. By Major G.
Toehman.
. .
I.Y. Ameiira in IR46,The Put--The Future.
X. Monthly Financial and Guannercial Article
XI. New Books of the Month.
Monthly Literary Bulletin.
XIIL Index to Vol. XVII.
The Democratic Review is now published at $3 00
per annum, and each number is illustrated with an extra
Bite merzolint portrait, engraved from Daguerreotypes of
Anthony, Clatk & Co. of N. Y.. the flrst artists in this
line in the country. For the current year, thus far, por
ttaits have appeared of F. P. Berta, Esq., late Editor of
the Globe; Gen. ANDSISW JACKSON, in hit; last day.;
Hon. Cala Jona-sos, Post Master General; Hon. Jitua
A. Dix, C. 0. Senator, 111: T., and Hon. Csisa Cran
ing. late Minister to China ; and portraits of like charac
ter will follow.
The back numbera of the current year, can be fUmish
ed to all new subaeribere. eabwriptions (in ill cases,
in advance) may be forwarded, at t h e title of tee
eta, by mail, post-paid, to 0. C. (Jainism' & Co., 136
Nassau-st., New York.
Cosonsas.--The proceedings of Congress have not
yet begun to be interesting. Several attempts have been
made to stop the flood of eloquence on the Oregon ques
tion, in toe House, without avail, Judge Strong has
had the floor, and mode an excellent'speeeh.
HON. DANIEL S. DICKIssoN, has oat thanks for his
Speech on the National Defences. It is a moat masterly
effort, and we shall take the first occasion that presents,
to lay it before our readers.
BATTLE BETWEEN TUE BLACKFEET AND
CROW INDIANS.--A gentleman from Fort F. A.
C., near the Falls of the Missouri, and upwards
of twenty-seven hundred miles distant from,St..
Louis, reveutlY arrived here, has kindly furnish
ed us, says the Reveille of the nd ult., with
the following information.: On the 17th of last
June, some seven hundred of the Crows fell
upon a small party of the Blackfeet; who had
encamped about seventy-five miles from the
fort, and in
.advance of the main body. The
Crows killed twenty-two, wounded as many,
took upwards of a hundred women and children
prisoners, and succeeded in capturing three hun
dred horses. Intelligence of their !disastrous
defeat having been conveyed to the main body
of the Blackfeet. they came up. and, though less
in numbers than the Crows, attacked them in
turn, and fought so desperately that the latter
were compelled to retreat to a place they bad
Strongly furtified,which they succeeded in reach
ing with all their plunder, though most of their
prisoners escaped. The Blackfeet were not
strong enough to dislodge the Crows from their
position, and ultimately retired. Ihe battle
continued between various parties of each tribe
for quite four days. The actual number of kill
ed in the affair it was difficult to obtain. The
Crows acknowledged a loss of eight or ten kill
ed and several wounded. Our informant states
that the Blackfeet intended to revenge themselves
upon their enemies the ensuing spring. It ap
pears that the majority of the tribe were on the
other side of the mountains near the head wa
ters of the Columbia. whither it is their custom
to go every spring, and those who were engag
ed-in this affair with the Crows were but an ad
vanced party who had recrossed the- mountains
somewhat earlier than usual. The Crows had
been driven into the neighborhood where the.
fight endured—whirl is called, in parlance, the
Blackfoot eountry"—by the Sioux, who were
out in dreat force against them. They usually
visit that section of the country, likewise, when
the Blackfeet are absent. About a fortnight be
fore the tight, a small party of the Blackfeet at
tacked the • horse-guard," at Fort F. C. A., a
trading post of the
,American Fur Company,
killed one man, !tallied, James
. Riquett, whose
family is supposed to be in this city, seriously
wounded another, and succeeded in stealing thir
ty horses belonging to the post.' 'rile Crows
and Black feet. as may be known, are biar ene
mies-, always assailing each other whenever
they can get an opportunity to do so, with dead
ly hostility. The former are very, friendly to
the whites, and the latter tribe directly the op
posite.
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII.—AiTios Ken
dall. in a letter to the Union, - mentions the dif
ficulty- that the company have between this city
and New York to moss the North River. lie
says:
.• Knowing the interest you feel in the suc
cess of Morse's elecuo-magnetie telegraph, it
gives me pleasure to state that it works beauti
fully on a line of more titan one hundred miles,
from Philadelphia to Newark, and on one occa
sion has been worked from Philadelphia to Fort
Lee, a distance of about onelondred and thirty
miles. There is not a doubt left that it may be
worked with perfect success across the conti
nent. •
.• We stop for the present at Newark, New
Jersey. ten miles from New York. not having
succeeded in crossing the river. Such is the
affinity of the subtle power we employ to earth
and water, that it is difficul to make it pass
any distance through either by any guards
which science knows how , to place around it.—
Keep it in the air, and it will follow your wire
around the glooe ; but bring it in contact with
earth or water, and. it escapes as if seeking its
home in the caverns of the .earth, and the coral
depths of the ocean. We mtist ask science to
teach us how to stretch wires in safety, aloft in
the air and a mite in length. or we must beg
commerce to permit us to raise pillars, beside
herpath, on which to erect a tiny bridge for our
invisible messengers. We eannot try experi
ments fot projectors; but he who can and will
take us across the North River without erecting
supports in the river itself, and in such a man
ner as shall promise durability, will entitle him
self to a liberal, compensation."
, A BRTDLE FOR THE TounnE.—MaryL..Mar
tile recovered a verdict of fifteen hundred dollars
in the Court of Common Pleas of Worcester
county. Mass., last week. against Origen Her
bad', for slanderous words uttered against the
lair fame of the:plaintiff by the wife of the de
fendant.
ELIZABEIW' VAN VALHENIOMON. who was
convicted for the murder of her husband, was
eiecuted in the yard belonging to the common
Jail in Fulton co., in the presence of eorne hund
red witnesses. on Saturday the 24th ult., at 3
o'clock, P. M.
North Bratich Ciotti Meeting,
Pursuant to notice, the friends of the• North
Branch Canal convened at the Court House in
the Borough a Towanda. on , Toesday even.
inn. Feb. 10. 1846. and organiged on motion
of Col. 1. F. Means. by t eatlinqtol. JOSEPH
KINGSI3 'EBY to preside. and electing C. F.
WELLES.. H. MORGAN, D. W. Tiacv. W. H.
OVERTON. D. M. BULL and Altrtorc BALLARD
Vice Presidents. and D. L. Scott. B. F. Pow
ell and E. 0. Goodrich. Secretaries.
The object of the meeting was stated by
Wu. ELervu. and EDW'D OVERTON Esqrs.,
and on motion of Col. P. C. WARD. a commit.
tee was appointed to *aft resolutions_ for the
consideration of the meeting. consisting of thir
teen persons. as follows :
P. C. Ward, E. W. Baird.
Wm. Elwell, John F. Means.
D. Cash. D. Brink,
G. F. Mason, R. Fowler,
T. 'l'. Weirman. J. 1%. Adams.
Ulyesep Mereur. D. 11. Goodwin,
Edward Owstrinn
During the iibltence of the committee the
meeting was addressed in able and eloquent
speeches by C. F. WELLES. lien. D. Buxom
Col. D. M. Boar., and 11. W. TEAM
The committee made thelfollowing report,
which after being debated by Messrs. Bancroft,
AYHliston. Mor zan. Cash, Baird, Meteor. Ei-
well, and Adams. was adopted.
The committee appointed to draft a report
beg leave to submit the following :
That they are of opinion, that the early com
pletion of the North Branch Canal,and its con
nexion with the Chemung and Chenango Ca
nals. is -of the most vital importance both to the
citizens of Pennsylvania and New York, and
as we are satisfied that the passage of a law for
those connexions will insure the immediate
completion of the North Branch Canal. we
trust the legislature of New York will not hes
itate to pass a law for the union of those works.
That the citizens of both states will be benefit
ted, we are entirely satisfied from the (act, that
all experience has shown, that the stock of ca
nals. in this country and Europe, is more val
uable in a ten-fold degree; when used for the
transportation of coal and mineral products,
and to illustrate this fact we need only mention
the Delaware division of the Penn'a canal, and°
the British canals that are extended to mining
districts.
It is a fact well known that there is no coal
in the stale of New York, and the anthracite
coal fields of the Wyoming valley are unpar
alleled in this state, and probably in the world,
—and it is not at all problematical to assume,
that the average ainounruf anthracite coal from
Wyoming, and bituminous coal from this Co.,
that will pass north for the next ten or twelve
years upon the public works of New York, af
ter the North Branch Canal is completed, and
the connexions made, will not fall far short of
500,000 tons annually.
•• The population of N. Y. in 1840 was
about 2.500.000 of which 1,500,000 would
now become consumers of coal. The rate of
consumption in the city of London is 1,188.-
35 tons per million of inhabitants, giving 1,-
782,471 tons fur a million and a half of people.
This is a quantity the wants of New York are
continually approximating to as wood
, disart.
pears; without regard to the increase of Opole.
tion." Indeed the quantity for the mapfac.
tering of Salt alone, is computed to be 100..
000 tons a year, in' the western counties of N:
Y. Nor does the consumption stop here.—
The lake' trade. and the various Canals, must
in a great measure look, to this channel for their
supplies, indeed altogether from the N. B. and
N. Y. Canals."
But the interchange of trade between the
two States, embraces other productions. • The
great valley of the 'Susquehanna has depended
almo%t exclusively for many years past for her
supplies of salt, and plaster from the State of
New York ; and as the prices of these articles
become reduced by the facilities of a cheap
and easy transportation, the demand most in
crease. Vast quantities of plaster are now
transported by teams and arks into Pennsylva
nia from the plaster beds of N. Y. which would
pass over the Chemung Canal was the =lnez.
ion made at Elmira.
The valley of the Susquehanna from the
state line to Northumberland contains now
more than 3,000.000, of acres and would re
quire 150.000 tons, ectimately one 'ton to
twenty acres.
In addition to this, we have a population of
160,000 along the S.usquehanna, depending
upon the Lake country for their supply of Salt,
•• which cannot be estimated at less than 75,000
bhls. per annum, and this quantity would be
increased as the cost of transportation is less
ened.
And next in importance to the citizens of
Northern Pennsylvania' of the completion of
the North Branch Canal, and its connexion
with the Canals of New York, your com.
mittee view the early completion of the N. Y.
and Erie Railroad.
Resolved, That this meeting. are unani
mously of the opinion, that the prosperity of a
large portion of the citizens of Pennsylvania
and New York require the immediate comple
tion of the North Branch Canal and its con
nexion with the Canals of New York. That
the vast amount of money expended on the
Chenango and Chemung Canals. and neither
paying the interest on the cost of construction,
should convince the Legislature of New York
of the
,necessity of authorizing an immediate
connexion of those works with the North
Branch Canal.
Resolved, That the assurances now and
heretofore given by citizens of the State of N.
Y., that the Legislature of that State will when
requested. pass a law incorporating a company
or companies to connect by Canal or Canals
the Canals of that State with the N. B. Canal
at the state line are of a character to give eon&
dente that such a law will be at once passed
upon the subject being properly presented for
the consideration of the Legislature. But
while we thuir,rely opon the good faith of that
state to carry out what we have been induced
to believe her settled policy, we must be per
mitted to say that the time for action on her
pan has arrived, and that longer delay would
justly lead us to distrust her intentions to pass
the requisite law.
Resolved. That we are io favor of the spee
dy completion of the New York and Erie
Rail goad, and of such Legislation in this. state
as will beet promote this object, and for this
purpose we are in favor of the passage of the
bill as originally reported by the committee of
internal improvements granting the right of
way to said road through parts of this state.
Resolved, That the President appoint a
corresponding committe of five. Whereupon
the lollowing were appointed said Committee;
—David Cash, Wm. Elwell, Ulysses Met.- -
cur, R. W. Tracy and J. C. Adams.
. On motion of P. C. Ward, Resolved, That
the 'proceedings 'of • this nieetiat be signed' by
the officers; and published in the papers of this
county, and copies sent to our Senators and
Representatives in the Legislature.
On motion. the meeting adjourned.
, [SIGNED' DT Tim OFFICERS.)
ANOTNEZ REVOLUTION IN MiNICIII.YNaIIaN
declared Independent.—We announced a few
days ago, on the authority of i letter from Cam
peachy, to the Spanish paper at New Orleans,
than revolution was contemplated at Yucatan,.
in consequence of a repudiation, by the M exican
Government, of the treaties entered into with
Yucatan by Santa Anna. Later intelligence
shows that that province has absolutely declared
itself independent of the Mexican authority in
consequence of the bad faith of that government,
and is now a separate republic. The intel
ligence is conveyed in a letter from Merida, the
Capital, January let, and addressed to die New
York Herald.
Yucatan is no longer a part of the Mexican
1 federation. Yesterday the. , Assembled Depart
mentall" pronounced against their existing form
of government, and have recalled the deputies in
the Mexican Congress.
The Mexican eagle has been torn from their
hanner, and replaced by the stars of 1843.
They have gone back to the old state of things,
as they existed before the treaty with Mexico.
The cause of the rupture is this same treaty ; a
resolution having been introduced and carried,
in the Mexican chambers, fur a revision of said
established treaty.
Incident upon this has been the resignatioh of
the Governor of the Department, Don Tihurcio
Lopez ; and his place is filled by Don Miguel
Barbadian°, formerly holding the same office.
The feeling against Mexico, and the state of
things in Mexico, has been, fora long time silent
h> running in the under current, waiting but for
sufficient cause to put itself forth in bodily shape.
Mexico. as usual, has shown bad faith towards
this section of the confederacy. Mexico. lay
her treaty with Yucatan, was bound to admit at
her ports of entry all productions of said depart
ment duty free. Gradual infringement took
place against the basis and letter of the treaty---r,
the Customs refusing to comply therewith.—
Reclamation was made by the government, of the
Department to the general government, which
met with no reply. In this state of things
came casual intelligence by the steamship Gauda
loupe. which put in at Laguna, of a rumor at the
capital, that negotiations were on loot to hypo
thecate the customs of Yucatan, to the &Wish,
which, probably, was a ruse, to terrify the Yuca
tecoes into compliance with their desires. Thic
heightened the feeling; then came the resolution
for the revision of a solemnly-made treaty, arra
the fire burst forth. What will be the end of
the business God only knows.
Yucatan is one of the finest provinces in Mex
ico. Its population is nearly 600,000. which
is exceeded by only three other_depariment out
of the twenty-two composing the whole counuy.
IMPORTANT BILL.—We understand that Col.
limes, Senator from Clearfield. has reported a
bill to provide for the payment of the State debt,
which contains some excellent provisions.
It provides for tax upon inheritances, both.
lineal and collateral, of at least fire per cent.—a
tax which we regard as eminently just and right;
and which if properly assessed and collected,
would of itself pay off our whole State debt be
fore the year lUOO.
The bill also, as we understand, requires the
State Treasurer, immediately after the passage
of the law, to ascertain the entire value of the
whole property as revised, equalised, and istab
fished by the Board of Revenue Commissioners.
and to ascertain' the amount of per eentage,
which the entire State Debt, including the relief
notes yet in circulation, will be upon the whole
amount of the taxable property of the State, and
so transmit to the Treasurers of the several coun
ties a statement of the per tentage, whose duty
it shall be to give public notice in their proper
counties, and the owners of real estate can have
the opportunity of paying in full the proportion
of the State Debt that property attaches itself to
their real estate ; and the County Treasurers are
authorized to receive in payment for the same
gold and silver, certificates of State debt, &c.,
and tf paid within three years, art abatement of
15 per cent, and receive an exoneration fur ever
from the payment of any tax in part of the exist
ing State debt.
%Vs have tin doubt, then, under such a provi
sion at least one third of the valuable real estate
in the commonwealth would be redeemed and
exonerated within the three years, and thus a
considerable portion of the State debt paid.
Harrisburg .1r gus. "
FROM CANADA papers of the 27th. we find
these extracts in the Albany Atlas. The Mont
real Times of the 26th says that despatches were
received on the 25th. appointing the Earl of Cath
cart Governor General of the Canadas, and adds
that it has heard that " the militia is to be im
mediately embodied." The Transcript regards
the rumor as to the militia. as " premature," but
says as to the new Governor :
The appointment of Earl Cathcart to the gov
ernment of this province, has been, in all proba
bility, suggested by the uncertain nature of the
relations at present existing between Great Bri
tain and the United States. Although we byno
means apprehend a war, we can perfectly under
stand that the appointment of a man possessing
the military reputation of Lord Cathcart may be
useful in more ways than one.
Tile same paper makes the following an-,
nouniement
It is stated that thirteen thousand troops of
the line, includingtwo companies of sappers and
miners, have been ordered immediately to this.
country. This will account for some of the re
cent movements that have taken place in the
Lower Provinces.
VACCINATION.-Dr. Fahnestock, of Borden
town. N. J., in an article on the Small-pox
and Vaccination. comes to the following posi
tions as the result of his own obserratton and
experience;
1. That vaccination is the hest protection
from small-por. It modifies the diecaae and
preserves life, although it does not io all cases
exempt entirely from an attack of variolons die
ease.
2. That re-vaccination becomes necessary
to teat the protection of the system.
a. That after re•vaccination, an individual
may have a reasonable certainty of exemption
from an attack olvarioloid. -
4. That re-vaccination should be resorted
to by all persons on whom it has not been re
peated, whenever the small-pox assumes an
epidemic form, as the changes constantly ta
king place in the human system, reader an
individual liable to infOtion at one period who
may have been exempt at another; and par
ticularly as that liability is greatly increased by
the existence of the viriolous constitution of
the atmosphere, which fans otherwise sporadic
eases into epidemio prevalence.
l'roeeedi s fthePenn'a. Legislature;
paregondepee of the American &wind]
• February 4;1840.
In the Senate this morni ng, the Speaker
presented, a report from the Canal Commis
airmen, in snifter to a resolution inquiring in
to. the prhpriety of constructing an outlet lock
at Black's Eddy, or at Wells' Falls, and form
ing a connection between the Delaware Divi
sion of the Pennsylvania Canal, and the Dela
ware and Raritan Canal. The Canal Board
give it as their opinion, that Wells' Point is the
most eligible situation for an outlet lock.
A Hilo authorize the construction of an
outlet lock on the Delaware Division of the
Pennsylvania Canal, was reported by Mr.
Hoover; a bill supplemental to the act to in
crease the revenue, and to decrease the expens
es of government; and a bill relating to inspec
tions were also reported.
A letter was received from the Auditor Gen
eral, in Relation to Registers. who have not
'complied with s the law requiring them to
give bail for the collection and payment of the
collateral inheritance tax.
Mr. Benner from the Committee on Banks,
made an adverse report on the memorial of the
Pittsburg Deposit Bank, to issue notes, which
after consideration was re-committed.
Mr. Gibbons read a bill to consolidate cer
tain loans of the Commonwealth.
The bill granting the right of way to the
Baltimore and Otte° Railroad Company to
Pittsburg, was taken up on second reading.
and Mr. Crabb took the floor, and made a
speech in opposition to this bill, which he con.:
e:dered as calculated to do immense mischief
the interests of the Commonwealth, as well
as to the city of Philadelphia.
Ix THE Housx,..-A statement was presented
from the Auditor General, in relation to the
compensation allowed John J. McCahen for
collecting monies from corporations, &c., for
the Commonwealth.
Mr. Burrill, from the committe of ways and
means, reported the annual appropriation bill,
making specie appropriations for the support
of the government.
Mr. Burnside from the judiciary committee
reported against the impeachment of Judge
Ewing, of the Fouiteenth Judiciary District.
and asked that the committee on education be
discharged, which was postponed for the pres
ent.
Mr. Trego from the committee on education,
reported as committee, the bill to incorporate
the Philadelphia Sacred Music Society.
Mr. Bighorn 'repotted a bill for an inlet lock
on the North Branch Canal, below the Nanti
coke Dam—also, a bill directing the mode of
proceeding in Courts of Chancery.
The bill to incorporate the Lewieburg Uni
versity. has finally passed.
The Tariff resolutions were take op in com
mittee of the wHole. Mr. Edie advocated the
Tariff act of 1842. and opposed the amend.:
meats of .Messrs. Burril) and Piollet. Afters
Mr. Edie had conclUded his remarks, he was.
followed by Mr. Shuman in favor of the act oe.
1842.
[Correspondenteof the Public Ledger.]
lIARRISDURG, Feb. 4,1846
The, afternoon session of the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday, was exclusively occu
pied with the discussion of the Tariff- resolu
X=
IN THE SENATE, to-day, a large number of
petitions were presented from the city and coun
ty of Philadelphia, for a change in the license
laws.
The bill providing for the removal of the
seat of justice of Fayette county, was taken up
and passed.
The Senate then went into Executive ses
sion, and unanimously confirmed the nomina
tions of Wm. N. Irvine, to be President Judge
of the Courts of Common Pleas for the district
composed of the counties of Adams and York;
of Charles Lyman to be an Associate Judge of
Potter county, and Fergus Cannon► to be an
Associate Judge of Indiana county.'
The bill supplementary to the act incorpor
ating a company to make a lock navigation on
the river Schuylkill was read a second time
and passed.
Mr. Crabb presented a petition from Phila
delphia, for a change in the mode of collecting
taxes, and for the abolishment o 1 the Board of
Health.
Mr. Bigler, from a select committee, report
ed the bill to form a new county out of parts of
Indiana, Clearfield and Cambria, to be called
Pine.
Mr:Sullivan from the Committee on the .Ju.
diciary. reported a bill concerning tenants in
common.
In the House, this morning, Mr. Burrell of
fered a resolution, which was adopted, calling
ingmon the Canal Commissioners to commu
nicate to the House the amount of Tolls receiv
ed upon the State Works in 1844, exclusive of
tolls upon boats, car and wheel-boats. .
A motion was made to reconsider the vote
which negatived the bill, the other day, to re
duce the capital of the Northeast Railroad
Company. This reduction of capital would
enable the Company to get the stock incorpor
ated. The motion was agreed to—Yeas 60,
Nays 27, when the bill was postponed.
An act to incorporate the ‘Vindsor Assist
ance and Fire- Insurance Company, in Berko
County. passed, and was sent to the Senate.
The House.went into the Committee'of the
Whole on the Resolutions in favor of the Ta
riff of 1842, when Mr. Breckenridge, of Pitts
burg, took time floor in favor of their adoption ,
and was followed by Mr. Boughner, who was
speaking when the mail closed.
Mr. Matthias introduced a bill to change the
name of Margaret Gray to Margaret Loeser;
also. a bill to form G ß new county, to bb called
Dallas, out of pars Erie, Crawford and. War
ren.
MORE MURDERS IN THE CHEROKEE COUN
TRy.—The Cherokee advocate of the Bth mat.
says :—This dissipation attendant upon Christ
mas season has been' productive of its usual
consequences, and resulted in two or three
murders. One of the murders was committed
at Maysville, • a little place just across the
Cherokee line, in the State of Arkansas, which
abounds with those dens of degradation, crime
and death—whiskey shops. On the 24th ult.
Charles Duncan killed John Ward by cutting
his throat with a knife—they were both drunk.
John Ward killed a man several years ago, by
the name of Jordan, near where Evansville now
stands. Duncan has made his escape. They
were mixed blood Cherokees, and agreed in
their political sentiments. being in favor of the
" treaty party." so called. On the, 25th ult.,
on Spring Creek. Saline district, Henry Smith
a young man, was killed in a drunken broil.
by Ook-equa-Isb-ti. who has surrendered him
self to the Sheriff, and will undergo a trial
this day.
Mit Vu Mutual Lead,
We learn from the Evening Expre nu o
arrival in this city, via Pt:11121211mM and
dulphia, of Linos W. Miller, Esq. of Ch u ,
qua county, on his way home, Mr.
was taken prisoner in 1838, at Niagai a ,,Z .
the Canadian outbreaks, and transportri!
London, where he was tried, and sent /124 4
Van Dieman'i land. Through the intent,.
titan of our government, all of these Ri o%
have
now b een - pardoned, but Mr. Millero t%
that there are about twenty poor fellows irk
have means of getting home. He inteadia
give the world an account of his travelsao
adventures.
The Melborne Herald of the 13th of Sep ia
tier, which Mr. M. brought with him, rh o
the particulars of one of the most hdrribletbif.
wrecks on record, by which 414 lives a n ,
lost. The “Cstaraxoi," Capt. C. W. H a l s
(emigrant ship of 800 tons,) sailed from Lin.
pool on the 20th of April, with 369 emim ak
and a crew, including two doctors, font'.
souls. The emigrants were principally fr o:
Bedfordshire. Staffordshire. Yorkshire o 4
Nottinghamshire. About 120 of the po i ,
gem were married, with families, and to
seventy-three children. Nothing °cou n t
worthy of notice until the 4th of Angus!, cs
which day the ship went ashore in a 'We n
gale, on a reef situated on the west coastal
Kites Island, at the entrance of Bass's Straits
The Ship filled in the coarse of a few ban
and through the night a scene of horror wi a
exhibited without a parallel. Before mornint
but thirty of the company were alise, the ni l
having been swept into eternity by the waves,
Out of the whole crew only nine were saved,
Maim.
Our readers have been already
apprised o(
the revolution in Mexico, by which the rein
of that Government have fallen into the handl
of Paredes. It was bloodless. Herrera harioi
relinquished the office of President in farina
Paredes without firing a gun or offering the
slightest resistance. Paredes was acconipans
ed by only 6000 troops, and there were it the
city of Mexico, when he entered it. 800 rego.
lam and 30,000 armed citizens. On the a.
rival of Paredes and his forces the 800 'ego,-
lars declared in favor of the revolutionary party
and the citizens surrendered, President Hes
rera retiring. Gen. Paredes then dissolved
the Mexican Congress. and declared that the,
should legislate no more until they should 1131 e
done fealty to him.' At Vera Cruz inbake blood
was shed, but all in the shape of legal sea
tions. Several officers who had favored'
administration of Herrera, proving somewhat
refractory, were tried, condemned hod shot:—
From various accounts it appears that the pno
cipal reliance of Parades for the success of the
revolution was on the hatred of the people to
the United States. The following is an en- .
tract from the manifesto of the garrison ofTam
pico, announcing their adhesion to the revolu
tionary movement
'lite officers here assembled are mailmend
that the administration does not in!end to pros
ecute the war against Texas, thus
,setting at
defiance the will of the nation, and that.
the greatest assurance, in the face of the who s e
people: it is actually treating with the Go ,
crrment of the U. S. tar the sale of Texas. Id
for aught we know the Californas also and thn
therefore it behooves the army and the pecpe
to depose an administration which has so h
tle regard for the national.honor," Atct, Ste.
GOLD DOLLAR.—Judge Douglass has made
a movement in Congress to mingle the gold
dollar with our currency. The Washington
Union says:
"This coin has been long known in the
hard money countries of the world. We have
seen it in Turkey about the size of a diene.yet
much thinner; and have considered it the very
best representation of value in existence. It
is there put into roleaux of fifty pieces, ecru
pying the space of a small cigar, and 'packed
in little perfumed purses for the ladies and the
higher orders of society. Such a coin could
be remitted under a seal from one end of the
country to the other, and would be a vast im
provement upon the present currency. Wr
trust the Committee of Ways and Means will
see to this matter. When a vast amount of
these violuable coins shall be thrown into cir
culation, they will drive out the small bills dm
serve to banish specie from the every day cur
rency of the country. Such a dollar-would
not be hoarded up in banks or private depot
tortes ; but would for ages circulate without
loss by abrasion, a coin for-the people.".
THE ACCIDENT AT THE CARBONDALE
—Though several weeks - have elapsed since the
accident at the Carbondale Mines, in Wayne
ceunty, by which fourteen or fifteen workmen
were buried alive, and the workmet ha'e been
busy ever since endeavouring to reach Their un•
fortunate brothers, yet they have but just sac
succeeded in making their way to therm The
Democrat of that place, of the 30th ult., say!,
the bodies of two persons were found the night
before. One, named Patrick Walker, was die•
covered a short distance from the main mad,
lying on slate of about eighteen inches depth,
his head supported by his right hand, and his
shoulder by a pillar. His legs were brolea:
probablytty the flying car boxes .
~ It is sullpae
ed that he lived for some time after, and prob.•
bly died of fatigue and hunger. The other
Mark Brennan, had been thrown by the wind
upon the top of a. loaded car, and was there
caught by the falling roof, which crushed hha
to death instantly.
AMALGASIATION.—There was quite a stir re
cently in New Orleans. in consequence of the
marriage of a white man named Buddingtoo.a
teller in the Canal flank, to the negro daugh
ter of one of the wealthiest merchants in that
city. Buddington, before he could be married
was obliged to swear to his having negro bloo d
in his veins, and to This he made an ineisierno
his arm and put some of her blood in the eta•
The ceremony was performed by a Catholic
clergyman: and the bridegroom - has recelu d
with his wife a fortune of some 50,000 or 60.-
000 dollars. The NATIVES serenaded him with
such abominable music, that to get rid of their
discord he paid them 900 dollars to be used for
charitable purposes.
TUE SCIIIITLKILL BANIL —Judge King. 1 1
Philadelphia. on Wednesday, gave his opia•
ion in the case of the Kentucky Bank agains t
the Schuylkill Bank, on the question whether
it was the Schuylkill Bank itself, and not in
late Cashier, J. Levis. that was the agisr
of the Kentucky Bank for the transfer of stock.
&c. The question, it is said. involved a lir
hi* of upwards.of a million of dollars. Thy
Judge; after reviewing all the evidence. 13 E 66 '.
ed that Schuylkill Bank itself was the agen 4
and as such, responsible for the acts of MS
cashier.