r-5) 744 -= • - •' 4 ,1C • • " 4;ir,fof9xL,Wo.w I:9M IMO; 1I"M :Speech, Free Men ear - Frt• Territorg. E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR. Tikwanda, &Wray, February Q1r1854 Torres Of The Reverter. IPA so per annum—:f publ nrithan the year AO ren:s wiii Lei &darted—fig Nish !lid 'tonally n *denary :011 00 will be aSedaeirel. Na peen *rat Deer, two 'ears. uehere 104 tin. ai+rstrtstatiNre. per equate of t.•n lines. S 1 reuti kir tin — llFitlial h s c ent• fat *wit, etilieeatteat l•taenten. j Oitkie to ittit Lawn Morn." north stt of the Put.he ofe,fee &vie th.:Refetrnri Katmai., hefween itheaws.iildame and Outer. law airwea. _____ Cartel MootWs. We refer nor readers to the proceeding's of the Canal meeting, ' held at this place, en . Tuesday evening. which will be found in anothercolumn.-- We need hardly say with what interest the people of she North ate'awaiting the action of our Legisla vire in regard to an appstpriation for the comple tion of the work. It seems to be a fotegone con desire; that an appropriation will' be made, the amount being only in qnestion. The true policy is loan in complete the work at the earliest moment. There has never been any difficulty, we antler sand, in sati4fying the members of the Le4i,dature .4 the utility of the work, and the true . poliey of the, Rate, in regard to its eatly completion. After what I,aa been vrrinen and publi.heil upon the subject, it is paying • left•handeit. enninliment to the people 4 any section of the Commonwealth, to say they ere in ignorance of the, benefits to be derived to the State from the completion of the Noah' Branch Caitiff Time•will prove that the predietiorispf its friends are more than fulfilled. iCesauth and Capt. Lone. Copt has published in the National Intel - a letter 1:11th reference the difficulties al- W i led to have taken place between himself and Koskin while on board the Mississippi. lle af firmsihat, lathe entire passage. there was but a single difference between them and that merely a mixtmlerstandi tg. When at Marseilles, the pea ple came in boats crowding around the ship to sa• lute Km:uth, showing and clapping their hands in a peculiar Finch fashion, while drums in the City were beating; the Captain said to the Governor, that if he would retire from the deck, perhaps the people would disperse; otherwise, he (the Capt feared a compromise of the flag. Kossuth uniler stand him to say, that tie (Kossuth)had already ;compromised the ji ig, by receiving the wet. come of the people, and also understood the request to withdraw as a command. But afterward the mat. ter was explained between them when the Captain exhibited to Kossuth his cruising orders, which *ere very strict in respect to the conduct of those on board the ship while in friendly porta, and especially for bidding all manifestation of sympathy with any political party. With this explanation Kosiuth was satisfied, and thenceforward perfectly friendly rela tions existed between them. - •••0 tr amiable and brilliant cotemporary, the Trojin, is falsifying its motto, and proving that its 4 , Wars are not ended," by finding fault with this Borough, because the citizens have placed a town clock in the court house steeple. Some one has been'hossing our goo!.hnmored friend, - by inform ing hint that said clock has been purchased by the Commissioweis : at the expense of tie tax-payers of the county, and he swallows the story, anti goes off into a diatribe against such extravagance, for the convenience of the citjtens of the place which his Cowl House. The Todan may quiet its tears, and dismiss its indignation. The town cluck Whieb " Paints with unerring finger to the march of Tune.'' from the Court Hawse steeple, and which is a great convenience to people attending Coon, as well as our citizens,-was contracted for by the Town Coun cil of the Borough of Towanda, and will be paid for by them We hope we shall see no more such exhibitions of petty jealousy and illiberality in our neighbor,- The attempt to excite sectional feeling is not calcu lated to benefit our county, in any particular, and should be deprecated by every good citizen. ~, liaglidatere and Congresslanai. The proceedings of our Natlonal an] Slate Leg- Is:atures have been untimall? devoid of general in. remit, far the lest tew seeks. The former body it suspending its action until this Texed and portant question of the 'Presidency is disposed of, when it will protabfy fall to work. We do not see that the North Branch bills are making any progress in either House, owing to the elate of the business. There are, we believe three bills reported—Mr. Sasncason's in the Senate— Mr. iderccar's and another in the House. We shall take pleasure in inbruting our readers of their Pie. Tut COCRT or QU/11,TES ,SICISIONS of Lancaster c.mniy, have orJered the Constables to enforce the law of 1703 opium all tavern•keepers who sell B elow on Sunday. The Court, it is understood, will refuse licenses to all who continued to violate the 14w. In pnrsuauce of the order, the bars of most of the taverns in Lancaster, end of some in the county were closed last Sunday. Gem. C►w rx M Atm r.:—The Democratic Convert. tion of the State of Marne, which asiembletl on the 5.h mat., chose Senatorial D,flegatee to the Bal. mums Convention who are friendly to the nomina. don often. Casa for President. The other dale. Kates, we presume, are to be elected %y the Con. passional dt4tr De in Alive—John W. Stiles, or Berwick, in Columbia cnnnly, who disappeared from Merchants Hotel in thei city of Near York on the fourth of July last ; ha• lately been heard of, about one hundred and figy miles tip the North Riier. Otr George W. Babb, formerly et Tinge county, whomysteriously disappeared from dear Geld cowl• ty, sometime is September lare ;Jame(' up not long 1 41 1 ) in that GrotnaGreem of. the United States, or rather of tlts world, Valiforakr. . .I.3eJ otAti, was =Raw' B''•'itkN'barre. Pi. a few div officer.: jakiag tetxrin 4:1 Viv PK 1:-I riEN TS. CULATLII Tame**. Also bust cauk.T. lix . sar C. li•tan. D. F. Big'<MOM, Hins kavv Am WATTLE., Aiitom egqisuric, 7Hlii FltMiugi; Jess% ELLitirr, fa i%( is : 4 1e ITN D C. 707 - h P T J. 1.). Mu vroitx. En w •1114 OVLITU N, ELI IA W. lima., Jots P. KIIINT, • • Acovirres-8. - %arta, Isa.tc•Alt to. '• •Wm. C. Uoo&aT, CoSSTAXT liIITRLWSOI, 1:4. C. NAGLI4I4 WrsiN Kesa.aLst, M. ii. Laslraso • 1414 Titlll2F, D. F. Nal.ll, N. O. Goodrich, U. Lawrence Scott. U. Mereur. Ot mot:on, the Chairman appnintethhe following Amid/men a Committee to draft resolutions ea prea•iv? of the sense of the meeting John CI Adams, Bartholomew taporte, Horace WilliNton, Thomas Mather, Williani Elwell, • . 8. Lockwood, M. C. Mercur, D. M. Bull, E. W. Baird, D. D. Cotton, E. It. Myer, George Kinney. • Harry Morgan. Hiram (cordon, Alexander Ennis. John F. CbamSerlain, A. 1.. Craararr. L. P. Ptalford. . H. S. Hinman, Maj. John Horton. • bud Wilson; The Committee having rented, during their ab. mice, the meeting au miaowed by lion D. Wit: MO; DAVID Cyan, him. V. E Piou.err and Err WARD OVIRRTON ENV& The Committee through their Chairman, Ann C. Arms& E4q.,. reported the tollowing: resolutions which were unanimously adopted : Wherea% " A union of Ate valley of the Busque banna with the.great Western Lake...ant the open ing of a conventeiit - avenue for etch:aging the rich mineral staptes of Pennsylvania fur those of New York, entered into the earliest plans of inter nal improvement presented to the public mind in the Atlantic States!! ; and Whereas, That thee:tension ofthe North Branch C. 1 03 1) to 41111 IC* tmiun and open this avenue, has been sanctioned and urged upon the consideration of the Legislature, by every Execu tive from the time of Governor Wolf, up to the pres ent time ; and Whereas. While other portions of our highly fa vored Commonwealth, have long since had the ad vantages of improvements, made either directly by the State. or by Corporations created by her. while our cherished work has been suffered to remain for years in an untinisbedconditiori ; and Whereas. in thrpopiaions or this meeting. based upon reliable data, the North Branch Canal when completed, will prove a source of revenue to the Commonwealth: Therefore, Resolved, That the time has arrived when no hesitation should be manifested on the part df our Legislature in providing the means for its speedy completion. Resolved. That the -welfare of the whole Com monwealth, no less than that ponion through which, the Canal passes, demands that this valuable ar4 important work should no longer be suffered to lan guish, but that it shon:d be brought into use at the earliest practicable period. Resolved, That as four.fifths of the work has now been done and a like proportion of expenditures in curred, that it is the dictate of wisdom as well as the soundest - economy. to raise at once a sufficient sum to insure the opening of the Canal early in the year 1851. Res • lved. Thai as a measure of financial policy, a loan of a sum sufficient to bring this Canal into use in the shortest possible time, is justifiable under the circumstances, and that we respectfully request our Senator and Representatives to urge upon their brethren in the Legislature, prompt and decided ac tion, and that they use their best efforts for aceom plishing the object. -Resolved. -That we tender our thanks to L*-Go• vernor Johnston, governor Bigler. the Canal Com missioners, and to the Hon. J.M. Bickel,Btate Treasu rer, for the intelligent and decided manner in which they have spoken in regard to this worite..feeling satisfied that upon the completion of it. the wisdom of their course will be vindicated, not only in the prosperity bribe country in its - immediate vicinity, but in the ample revenues derived from it, Resolved, That we have read the comprehensive and able Report of Wm. B. Foster Evq., principal Engineer, to the Canal Board, on the subject of the North Branch Canal, with great pleasure, and in the language of the present edicient and excellent Ca nal Commissioners, recognise in it " an able argu ment in favor of its future value as a source of Revenue." Resolved. That a copy of the proceedings of this meeting be forwarded to the Hon. J. H. Walker, Speaker of the Senate. and to the Hon. J. H. Rhey. Speaker of the House of Representatives, with a re quest that they lay them before their respective Hou se*. Resolved, That David P. Barstow, John P. Means, R. W. Tracy, V. Z. Piollett. M. C. Mercur. U. filer cur, David Cash, John Hanson, John MVord, I D. Montanye and Burton Kingsbery, bee committee,to proceed to Harrisburg and urge upon the Legisle tare the importance of an early and sufficient ap propriation to complete the North Branch Mural. The meeting was further addressed by Ursescs MUCCR, and C. L. WARD, Emma. On motion die names of Jsxes Mscrsaimie, J. C. ADAMS, WM. EL . WELI. and C. L. WARD were added to the Committee, appointed to visit Harris burg. A resolution was then adopted that the proceed ings be published in the Pennsylvanian and the Aorili American at Philadelphia, in the papers of Lucerne, Wyoming and Bradford counties, and the meeting adjourned. (Signed by the Officers.) Naw Ginn. Cottlikr••Tbe Phdadelphia Mint his been coining some samples of new gold dollar and halt dollar piles, which are thus described t The dollar consists of a flat ring, on which there isaso. perreriptiol, but no head, as the place for putting a Wad is cat out. The coin may becanied on a suing • most convenient and sate way ofcarrying money. The half dollar pieces are made alter a similar kWh. ion--but smaller, of Bourse with a hole in the um. tre. We don't think midi of these new tangled coins. The, might be convenient for carrying on a string, but it would require a long time for the people to accustom themselves to regard these lit. de rings as money. Give I:aplenty of gold dollars, in their present shape, and quarter eagles, and we shall have no difficulty about making change. A i'vratsacn.—There is now living in Waldo. boro', Me., an old gentleman named Conrad flyer, a hero of the. American Resolution, who will be 103 on the 10. h of April next, if he lives until that tints. lie entered the army at the oge 01 25, and served three years. lie belonged to Colonel Bond's regiment, and was at ,the taking of Tinnderoga and the surrender of Burgoyne a OP Trta EeLune Medical Institute ot nen, his de fared its courses of lectures free from all charge fnr prolesaor's tickets, retaining only the stmel incidental , fees for matriculating and di-sect• ing, in deirrwtl e expenses or the enilta. This is makinz icenteally. a flee echrxd. The 'taut see. ill at',O imut ute co.nureuctse on the'latol Match. and !dew four m,m.hA, Dam IA V . E. A. CueLiatva. Sri:Rots 811 CC J4911:11 M•C AAAAA NZ, (leo. b. Bullock, James H. Webb. Judson Holcomb, _ the ........__....._ ..., _ .._ Odielat Correspondence In P re. ,-9r.—,, : ..:,....._. — - k. me ! heta Case. I. " `''.- % P I? a ' --4 rcnit Th ience e fi ': ' Il i I l i -, ( V ill ."'`. t . e ".-, ig, lay. La %Treece, iron(Vie i - fi er p, r ,. 7 Ii .:-• to inquire whet . 1 '' o set 11 ~ s i n , the gspier4 w in , :?: s .., i ota 1 4rom his governiner , tt pretesting against the outrage. Several dispatches follow in which it a pears that the_ British Secrets lifnfaisruit ' ,• ' ~:- -• -- ;t - -., • , ..'.. - ,-,r:: • • - - a delay until he receives a report from the Admiral ut the station On the 10th of January, •tharinftw.: , motion having been obtained, the following letter • was addressed by . , y : Loste•cataavraut TO iv t.l . .switeemei -, , - The utnleisigned, - her Brininnie Majeauri Stifcm .r:p! Sialelor VOMi''U.A. l 4.r!,,,...hes.thli .henftr„o . acqiitlideMi:ll44 . trairieriie. briny Eiiiiiiitlin‘ ry and Minimer.flimipotentenikiry .of the United States of America. that her Majesty's Government have just received horn the r.ce Admiral command ing tier Majesty's naval farces irLthe West ludic.% a report upon the subject of the Prometheus, which is to the following effect .--;That, on arriving al St. Thomas, the Admiral received a deepsich - from the commander of her Majesty's sloop Express, stating that, on the requisition of -Mr. James 'Green, her Majesty's Consul at Greytown who is also a princi pal officer of the Mosqnito illevemment, al that place, he hail, by (erre, compelled the American steamship Prometheus to pay the port dues de manded of her by the authorities of Grepown. To this dispatch Vice Admiral Sir Creme Sey. moor had immediately replied by saying that nei ther he nor, to his knowledge, her Majesty's consul had received any orders to allow her Majesty's ships to be employed at such service, or in enforcing the fiscal regulations el Mosquito ; the sole object of the present.* of a British ship of war at Greytown being to defend the town and inhabitants from ag gressive attempts to deprive the Mosquito govern ment of possession ? pending a settlement by nego• nation of the question relative to its future position.l Sir George Seymour hid further expressly forbid-1 den the commander of the Express from again em- pleying (nice to compel the levy of duties from the Mosquito government. The undersigned has now to state to Mr., Abbott Lawrence.- for the information of his government, that her Majesty's government fully approve of the Vice Admiral's conduct in this matter, and that they entirely disavow the set of violence committed .by the commander of the Express, and also the re qoisition from her Majesty's consul, under which the commander acted, so far as he acted by any . authority -derived from the British crown. :Under these circumstances, her Majesty's government have no hesitation in °tiering an ample apology for that which they consider to have been an inlrac. don of treaty engagements ; and her 1‘ ... 1..z... 0 .. 7 1 : koternment tie so without loss of time, and imme diately open the receipt of the official intelligence above alluded to, inasmuch as in their opinion it would be unworthy of the government of a gfeat nation to hesitate about making due reparwion when the acts of their subordinate authorities have been such as not to admit of justification. As her Majesty's government have full confi dence that the government of the United States is aztuated by a similar heeling, they hope that this mutual confidence will induce each other, in all cases of such dispires, and until due time has elapsed Ica the necessary explanations to be receiv ed, to defer taking any steps which might lead to collision, and thus mach aggravate the original difficulty. The undersigned requests ' lac. Foreign Office, Jan 10, 1852. GRANT!! i.e. To the above Mr. Lawrence replied, expressing his gratification, and trusts that the questions out oh which the difficulty gre,w, will be ,speedily settled. Governor Bigler's Appointments COMPLETZ LIST Francis W. Hughe,s, of Schuylkill, Secretary of the Cinwnon wealth. James Campbell, of Philadelphia, Attorney Gen eral. , James Keenan, of Westmoreland, Adjutant Gen. oral. David Lynch, of Allegheny, Sealer of Weights and hleaAare4, Allegheny county. Wm. S. Garvin, of blower, Inspector of Flour, Pittsburg. Franklin Vanzant, of Bucks county, to be Flour Inspector for the Port of Philadelphia. James S. Watson, Philadelphia, Inspector of Lumber. George Getz, Philadelphia, Inspector of Salted Prov 'Nous . S. C. Thompson. Philadelphia; Sealer of Weights and Measures, for Philadelphia city. Benjamin Kirk, Delaware, Sealer of Weight's and Measures for Delaware county. John Bennis, Sealer of Weights and Measures for Chester county. Dr. D. Gilbert. Port Physician, Philadelphia. William Mc("Unsay, Philadelphia, Health of. ker. James Lafferty, Philadelphia, Keeper Powder Magazine. Jacob Unueeatl, Philadelphia, Measurer of Mar ble. t • William Gould, Cumberland, Auctioneer, Car isle. Jefferson Worthington, Notary Public., Cumber and county. . William Kline, Notary Public, Dauphin county. William Rice,- Philadelphia, Harbor Master, Philadelphia. Jesse Johnson, Philadelphia, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Philadelphia county. John Keisley, Philadelphia, Inspector of Butter and Lard, Philadelphia. Michael D. Wanman, Philadelphia, Inspector of Sark, Philadelphia. W. V. McKean,. Philadelphia, Quarantine Mas ter, Lazaretto. Andrew Stief, Philadelphia, Grain Measurer, Philadelphia. William Rams, of Berko, Inspector of Distilled Spirits. P. W. Conroy, of Philadelphia,.Assiatant Inspec tor of Distilled Spirits. Dr. Thos. J. P. Stokes, of Philadelphia, Lazaretto Physician, Lazaretto. Jared Ktuohnin,:ofCbeater, Muter Warden, Phil adelphia. A.r,Wollersvreber, of Philadelphia, Notary Public, Philadelphia. John Roberts, Dr. Lothar Healey, Dr. W. W. Rutherford, A. J. Jones, Trusteesof the Pennsylva nia Lunatic Hospital. Aids with the soak of lieutenant Co/encl.—Geo. H. Martin, of Philadelphia ; John J. McCahen, of Philadelphia; C. D. Eldred, of Lycoming; James Donnelly, of Armstrong ; Benjamin B. Creacrafi, of Philadelphia; Samuel S. Moon, of Philadelphia. °tr. The lasi CalllPOl Samuel Williams, the col. ored man charged with misdemeaner, hi giving no. ties of the intended arrest of fugitive slaves at Chrs. tiana, was continued in the District Court of Phila. delphia last week. The case was concluded- on Wednesday, and thejury aher being out all night, returned a verdict ot not guilty. JUNT LIND'S LOT CHARITIRS...—The late Jenny Lind gave *5O to the Gaiter and $3O to each of the other servants of the honee where she was marrietk. She then gave her hand to Otto Goldschmidt, and this is the last of the Lind charities, that will ever be recorded. The Jenny Goldschrnidt charities have not yet commenced. Paanows.—The Harrisburg Unionisaye that Gov. Bight has determined not to exerci,e the par. doning power in any case where the aentence is merely the payment or fines and costs. 011.4 cnNTR.CT int 5000 tone of iron, infThler t i to finish the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. lira been made: 3000 Um are to be furnished by an English boo ee. —Monday *la the fit peetond successive day of eleightug in Boston, and the prospect of more of the same Knt was a• geed av ever. Four day* Latei iiiini trillions la. 11, 3 1 " yo v r, eb r _. r ..11... AreamerfA .. Om t. a es, slimy, a 6o' _ k Altus ,en ,C 4 .., nt r • t h e Ja . fy, 'fo aye er .. nr , rc ade by 'he i We• .i' 4 04 ,-, El raf brings 09 1 Iti golfs the,. The El Dorado has made the quickest time on record between die ports, her passengers having Francisco. Amin►g the passeagersi by the El Dora 10, is Fe. lix Argantiv, of San Fiancieco, on his way to Wash- ' ington on business connected with the State. , Business at San Francisco, contipms moderately : active. / , : . , • The aerounis from the southern mines state that •zbe tar/rainy weather-has - - harl-aw enterer:W*4 feet upon business in some places. The steameni California and Golden Gate, from San Francisco, had arrived at Panama. The Golden Gate, Made the passage from San Francisco in 12 days and 18 hours after having been subjected to a detention of 15 hours at Aca• pulco. The Golden Gate met with a slight acci dent the day she lift San Francisco. The propeller Pioneer had arrived at Chagres, and, many other passengers were crossing the lath• mos with the expectation of meeting the Mona. mental City; but she had•leff nearly a month be fore an.) they would be obliged to wait nearly a month for her return, or go in sailing vessels. The steamship United States arrived at Chagres on the 3d inst. The rains on the I.thmus have ceased, and. Bur gone was in first rate order. The fare np the river, from Chagres, in small boats, is from $4 to $.5. Tne Isthmus continues remarkably healthy. Passengers at Panama have been leaving in large numbers in sailing vessels in which they were obliged to pay foil prices. The steamship independence was at Kingston re. pairing her machinery and would probably sail in three or four weeks. Her destination wasquite un certain. - The Daily Picayune says that a resolution had been . adopted in the Senate of California to go into eleetion for U. S. Senatoi on the 26tb of January. in the Senate also, notice of a resolution had been giving Congress to appropriate the means for the improvement of the Bays Harbors and rivers in the State. Notice had also been given of a bill in relation to slaves and free colored persons. A new Democratic paper is shortly to be issued at Sacremento City ; to be called the Democratic State 4nrnal. A pWsonal difficulty had ocrlfrred al Marysville between two prominent citizens, in which pistols were drawn After !!e parties had been disarm ed by the interference of friends ? one Usaultell the otter and broke his arm. A rich vein of lead ore has been discovered near Nevada which yid& in some parts noo and $4OO per ton. Birkshaw, charged with an attempt to create a revolt on board the Ship Challenge, has been tried and acquitted. It is now tforierstood that all father proceedings against the officers and crew of the Challenge will be dropped : The extreme penally of the law attached to the offences of which Capt. Waterman and the mate of the Challenge have been found guilty is fire years imprisonment and a fine of Sfooo. A battle had occured in Lower California be- been the insurgents and the Government forces, in which the former), were defeated and dispersed with severe loss. The steamer Golden Gate brought down from San Franciszo 200 pas.enguis. The news from tl mines is without startling in terest. The AIIn California diva/tries the affairs of Xo.S• enh and Hungary at some length and says that at the proper time:California will do ber part to further the objects of universal liberty throughout the world. , The ship Tarquin, from anion, which has been ashore off North Beach for some time, has been blown lip in order to rid the harbor of a very danger ous wreck. Hon. A. Hall U. S. Commissioner for public buil dings left San Francisco on the 51st in the Golden Gate - tor Washington. The starling 112W8 of Napoleon's coup de eta!, was received on the 18th nit ,at San Francisco. The papers comment upon the course of Napoleon with sonic severity and prognosticate his speedy down fall. At stockton, January 20th, business was improv. ing and the roads, being in condition, freights were going forward pretty freely to the mines. TROY PANAMA - TI R CROWD OF PASSENORRS The Panama Her aid of the 28th of January, says that place is crowded with passengers bound for California in railing Yeasels. The ships Christiana and Christianna Margaret were lull at passengers and would be off in a day or two. These vessels carry about 600 passengers, leaving a balance of of 500 or 1,000 on the Isthmus. Other sailing ves-• eels would be taken up, were at not for the scarcity of provisions. Several steamers were expected at Panama at last accounts. The Wheeling Bridge Case. Oar readers are apprised of the decision by the United States Supreme Court of the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against the Whee ling and Belmont Bridge Company, it being adverse to the company, the majority of the court holding that the bridge is an obstruction to the river. The former and toll length report in the decision, which will be looked for with much interest in this sec tion and the %Vett, has not yet come to hand. We have, h,wever, some further particulars. A cor respondent of the North American says that the ma jority of the court also held that Pennsylvania, through her public works, has been injured because the navigation of the Ohio has been obstructed ; and that being so injured, Pennsylvania has a right to claim that a coon of chancery shall . order the obstruction to be removed in vindication and pro- tection of her rights. It is further set forth that the obstruction is chiefly operative as to seven packets plying between Pittsburg and Cincinnatti whose passage under the bridge, at a few feet above the ordinary stage of water, it seriously interferes with, and sometimes entirely prevents. These seven boats, out of two hundred and thirty running be tween thepoints named, carry one half the freight and three fourths of the passengers. The opinion further declares lowering chimneys Is a hazardous and expensive process, and is, vierefore, a tax up on owners ; and that shortening the chimneys would retard the speed of the boats, and so subject the owners to severe the annual loss. The court de cree that the bridge must be elevated to the height of a hundred and eleven feet, instead of ninety. two feet, as at present, with wan of at least three hundred feel Mr. Johnson, who is of counsel for the Bridge Company, moved a modification of the decree, so as to allow a draw to be inserted which, he argued' would obviate the obstruction. This application will probably be granted, or, al all events, something calculated to accomplish the sameobject. Should it not be, legislation will prob • ably be restored to defeat the degte% ISTANION - OF C.NOLAND —The arrival ol the Pa. elfin at New York, on Thursday, brings the im portant news of the •threatened invasion 01 England by Loots Nienene. The English Government, as a precautionary movement, which shows that the rumor is not without foundation, has ordered 25,- 000 troops into London. and 30,000 stands ol arms trom Birmingham. Well may England want an, affiance with the United States, it she apprehends a demonstration of the kind, for Louis Napoleon can now tiring to his aid the other despotic powers of Europe. Sitersitm Meanna.—Thomas McGann and Ins paramour, Ann Minion, a handsome young woman of Boston; have been arrested in Plymouth, Mass., f o r the rnorderof 511:Gann's wife. Her body was rou n d, with marks of violence upon, it, on the floor of a MOM whete the atiil.3 - ' palr were sleeping GOloil to Cotten'slit. tt •J- ms bent on / • 1 G Re n. t were steamsli p 4 .011 ti n t P • a • d Nicaragua li6e.lof ki ,Piii ni ••.• • gera ihrongh in fhb. se th xi J e believe it welds) - e ,t mense army *ill t y . t in ~ Sierra; and ; t ttt • to" will perish or stop on ttre way we cannot catirntre the emigrants (hiring 1852 to California at less than 911.1 1 .- '-'41146111 1 1111 1.0'..- potation be provide) and the news from the Pacific continue cheering, it may • even exceed that num ber. --We believe in Caldera* and always dtd.— Our indgnient wart early made up and proclaim ed that kts perk:l444d add} tiould exceed that of any other country known to History. We believe it has ladle:stain aped climate audratrobundatsee, of fruitful soil, though it has probably more that is rugged and impractable. And we do not doubt that, for those who go well prepared and provided, these are as good . chnaces in Calstornia now as time ever has been Yet the rage of the Fever at pres• ent is rather appalling What are aft these thous. ands to do in Californ ia?i Gold-wishing Must, id the nature of things , grow less and fess productive; there will be rich" pockets and holes' for ' , years yet; but a good deal of thy ground has been gone over, and fifty thousand diggers in 1852 can hardly hope to average as much of the shining sand as five thousand did in 1849. Many 'will do welt; bin I washing must naturally grow less fruitful and_more precarious. Quartz Mining, nr mck•crushing, seems to be generally doing very well; but there will be hardly one set of adequate machinery in the Gold Region this summer to every thousand sold seek ers. How are all the rest to be employed! We do not doubt the luck of a strong, willing, two-handed man, who knows how to chop, team, plow, din, blast, Ike., and can do three or four of them well, A tinstrate blacksmith, sawyer, carpen ter or bailder, t who can tu.n hie hand read ily tcrsome. thing else where his own trade happens to be . gluu-. ed, will be apt to et along. slut we hear of men setting out for California who have never been able to hold their own here, and who have very little rough and , ready capacity for manual labor Most of these, we apprehend will rue the day. therleft their Atlantic homes. Even dainty women ar: try ing to get across, wi th the idea that there most be chances for them to make's fortune on the -Sacra mento. So there may be; but for any but , the stout• eat sort of rugged workers, who can cook, wash, make beds, mend clothes, and don't mind doing each exposed to a burning sun or a pouring rain— for the miners houses in the diggings are often very primitive—we fear California will prove anything but en Men. Friends all over the Country! be careful ! lie sCßmber that "All is not gold that glitters." If you don't know how to make a living here, we fear you will hardly improve 'your condition by crossing the continent. Do not ga empty handed ;do not trust blindly to luck; and do not fancy yourselves mined if obliged to stay on this side. 'Mere are very good placet's even here for those who know how and em willing to wor Try sine ! Tribune. The thnali Hole Law. The following extract from the proceeilir,gs of the House of Representatives, nn the 9th inst., in dicates that there is a prospect of the repeal of the small note law : On motion of Ma Recanow, the bill to repeal the 48 and 49th sections of the act of 1850. regulat ing banks—the *cations prohibiting the circulation of the small notes of other States—was taken up in committee of the whole, M. KILBOURS in the chair, and passed. Oa proceeding•to the second reading of the bill, the vote was as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Acker, Appleton, Blaine, Broo mall, Chandler, Craig, Dugan, Fiffe, Freeland, Gibbs, Gillis, Hamilton, Hari, 114rris, Henderson, Herbert, Hubbell, Hunseeker, James (Chester,) James (Warren);Kelse,Kingsley, Kraft Landis, Lilly, M'Cluskey, M'Granahan, M'Kean, Maclay, Madeira, Meloy, Mellinger, Merrimsji, Meylert. Miller [Allegheny] Miller [Nita. Co.]] Miller (Northampton.) Mowry, Penny, Pownalf, Reckhow, Seltzer, Sharon, Shaeffer, Smith, Wag ner, Walton-50 Nils—Messrs. Anderson, Benedict, Beyer, Big slow, Blair, Brock, Dengler, Ely, Evans, Fotimer, Fret; Gabe, Goodwin, Gufley, Hill, Hook, Huplet, Jackson, Kilboum, Leary, Laughlin, Leeek, Cane, Meyers, Painter, Reifsnyder, Reiley , Rhoads Ross, Rub cam, Schell, Sbugett, Shull, Sounder, Springer, Steward, Thomas, Torbert, Wise, Yost, Rhey, Speaker-4 P. Su the bill was taken up on second reading. Ara Gitaas, offered an amendment to repeal the 13th section of the act of April 11, 1327, the act which prohibits the banks of the State, from issuing notes of less denomination than five dollars. Ma. fisootasi.t., suggested that this amendment would not effect the object intended; and Mk Stumm, offered a general amendment to repeal all Laws which prohibit the issue of small notes by our State Banks. Mn withdrew his amend ments to let this one in. Ma Bum moved a pastpor.ement of the question for the present. Ma James, (of Warren) opposed this motion and also the amendment. He said the questions were distinct, and each should stand on its own merits. He was in favor of the provisions of the Bill, and opposed to the amendment. His constituents had given no indications in favor of the amendment. Ma. Aimee* spoke in favor of the amendment. He said that if the object of the postponement was to perfect a bill to carry out the intention of the amendment, as well as the bill, he was not oppos. eit to it. Ma HARMS said he bad intmduced the bill at an early stage of the session, and since the expression of the people had been decidedly in favor of its pas sage. The-Grand Juries of Wairen and Erie, and other counties, had preSented the law and it was re gated as a nuisance in all the border counties. His constenents.he knew to be in favor of the repeal, as so far as he could judge, the people of the State were. The law could not be enforced in border counties • and if it could be it doing business. The matter b e regarded as fully understood, and there was no necessity Or postponement Ma %oar suggested that a correspondence should be entered into with other States to have all small notes prohibited. Ma. Fwre said the law as it stood could not be enforced Within sight of the Speaker's chair could be seen handbills advertising the public , that these foreign notes would be taken at par. it was not the barrier counties merely, but in the whole State the law was disregarded and and a nullity.— In his own county, a prosecution under it was held to be of malice, and the prosecutor sentenced to pay the costs. it was a bill on which the repre. sentatives oldie people could at any lime vote. MN. WALTON expressed similar views. He could vote at any time on the proposition The public voice had distinctly called for a repeal of the law in regard to foreign banks—and members on the floor, had declared that it could not be enforced.— The very administrators of the law had become its violators—and every man in business was called upon to violate it. He believed our own banks should provide this small currency— they could drive the foreign notes out, end turnish a currency in which the people would have confidence, and convertible into specie, at convenient places. There had been loud cells for a repeal of the law, and it very iesirable that it should be speedily done: Ile would vote for the bill and the amendment. Me. Knot° was sorry the amendment had been introduced. He was in favor of both questions, but he had rather ;hat they should be left distinct. There was a moral quest= involved in it. The people would become accustomed to held laws in contempt. .4 Some remarks were also made by Ma. Bees racv end Ma Cat.t.r.; when MR. Hun . raised a question of order. lie ihnu2ht ender the rules, these two matters as distinct, could not be intronoced into one bill. . The Speaker so decides!. Ma. FLANIGAN took the flour andliad comment• est some rematke, v itrn 'lie Ilnece attjrsumed. NeiVs Ikon ill liiitioils. _isger i thevress of some persons in Syracose Nor e idikg ijt thir ese6e of Jerry, it was deemed ad,, ea , •re ki a track-fire by commencing a rQa • • t one theVepnty Marshals for kidnappi n : rial is deign for this week at L. Syracuse, a lb e dge board: •• wof st jokes of the season is the ma in meat that one of the candidates for Gorerkfif New-Hamp•liire who 1, sictroploaltte_Stan. the k'nucks, before he kin'' het, v . t as oat of o‘r 11 bailie w:ck." as he rosmaster General has given inu melicti , to have the great Eastern mail for St. toms, h ot , after sent via Dayton, Indianapolis. and Terre y in , The schedule time from Washington City to k - —The Mormon Editor, Orson Hyde, will relen t , his Frontier Guardian 'from Kohesville , lowa, Salt Like City, in the Spring. Most of the ll n mans in Carp country, now at Kaneaville, will nu grate to Salt Lake along wittrßrother Olson. --Ma. Montague, of Marengo County, Ala : h i , received from a slave in California a romp of p c ,, gold, pm as it was picked_ap,.werithinty, abo ut tht , pounds, and valued aisorneilung trot %%00. —The pnpulation of Springfield : Mass, n IL 498, end increase'of 1,168 since the spring of )44 Of the present pepbtatton 8,043 are ma les and n t oy females. Kinkel, the Ger:natl. revolutionist, hail ; x i kick at Natchez ; the German residents of that re, stirred up by his eloquence, raised. Irvin $B4 $lOOO for the revolutionary loan. —A bill has been introduced into the Louttit e , House of Representatives to , establish free rei, w , throughout the State ; and an act has Page d ~1 . 1 same Rouse to admit the public statistics atj ges:s of other Stales in evidence. —The 110ston (Texas) 7elegraph remarks it s the City of Condon stands upon 620 acres of lasi and the City of tiotritori upon 2,500 acres : ern. Housto n is morethar. lour times larger tha a great Monopolise' Europe. —Large meetsnge have recently been held Rochester, Elmira, and other towns in strea m N e w yolk, to take measures fur the establi,shm td of an Agricultural and Mechanical Cgllege. -=The City authorities at iVashing.inn hare lake measures to procure a copy, in marble, 01 the rx. - ute'of Washington in the State Ilause of Virp,a —lt is understood in Washington that newly nr quite all the Southern Senators will rote for Nth., or some other Non Intervention resolution. —Swann, who shot Sprigg, at Cumbenr,Oa. ing, him instantly, has been arrested, and Lis rm. teased that it was his intentioni to delibersielf der the deceased. =The Alabarne• Hoene of Representatives Iv., down the famous " Georgia Plaihrm" bj 46 Lit; on a motion ordering the said Platform to a reads —Captain tient)! A. Naglee, charg ed with r. tempting to defraud the Government by preen false vouchers for claims, has been Niel] and e quitted. —President Fillmore has received an antr,.4' letter from Louis Napoleon, expressin2 a cultivate friendly relations with the Lilted Si. : —The nomination of Col William Chtwr Surveyor of the port of New Orleans, has beeara? - firmed by the U. S. Senate. —Mon. Ileudebert, Consul et Lyons, has te recalled, and it is said that George K. Ro,len. Ndw•OLlean•, has been appointed to fill the pin —lion. Edmund Dillahunty one of the Stale hr es of Tennessee, diet( at Columbia in that Stale t the 3J inst. —Ai Massillon, a yonnz lady " medium." nr arrested for causing rapping') in church durr. vine service. —The sash and blind rnanntartocy of Jlir Gould & Co., at Wattertown, Mass., was Llevrij by fire on the Bth inst. —The Secretary al the Navy, Mr Graham, 3: been confined to his room about a weak by il'za —Aki. Silk, who was convicted .11 New 074 of the murder of Ald. Laughlin, has been sensei to the Penitentiary for one year. —lion. Mond Mil has intos tried the Ptek.."4`"- that he will consent to remain s in California u L. cal Commissioner. —`The Car *tare of Baltimore have adorait en•hour rule. s--.grove,, County, Ohio, produced 1.3111 c. bushels of ‘Vhent, and Rm Co.. tutbesame* 2,918,958, bushels of Corn i n 1850. . _ —Oliver Saunders, r wealthy citizen of Do::: Mass. expired suddenly on Thumlay list—u,!. eifto have been from over-exerticn ut storr.L'.; :7 now from the sidewalk . —Jeremiah Lee, an old merchant, and foreq•i, United Stales Consul in the Mediterrapen at his residence in Boston on Sunday err. - ,44r-Z: A little girl, five years old, daughter ol DsGcSy King; of Taunton, lell into a tub of botlin;botn ter a day or to since, and was so badly scalded% • she died. —"smarm's from Lankaster represent dens Stevens as convalescent, on his repro to li't• ington during the present week is aniiciperL —Col John H. Glover has been elected 31 1 7:: of Marietta, Ga John Austin has been chosen 115 of Van Buren, Ark. —Gen. 0. Hinton the celebrated defaulter.ff,., fled from Ohio and Justice about a year 4 3 , 0 ;:: been heard from at Sacramento, California. —The Roman Catholic Church at %V IV was considerably damaged by tire Tt ursay* noon. —The Planing and Grooving Mill of F S Colombia, Pa., was destroyed by tire on WO day of last week. Loss 87,000 to FS 000 L. ranee, $3,401 —A western paper says that when floor to SI 40 a barrel, and wheat 80 cent• per t•il it takes more than ten miffs to make a cent. —An Irishman was recently killed b; man at Begin, Wis., in a quarrel about the [ .si9n of a shanty. --Gov Allen has Biped the bill t.boliablig' , tsi paniatiment in Rhodeland, and it howl ° coma a law. —We understand that the Telegraph line Buffalo to Datmit, through Canada, will be air hut, within a month. We see it staled that Mr. Barrenger, oar at the Court of Madrid, by his earliest alit obtained the release of the Cuban prFonetl . ' t any instructions from our Government religi them reaching him. So, also, the pardon 11/1 '" lean of Mr Thrasher were obtained t y ger before he received a line from Mr. tret" 49 -t. on the subject, and before the a7rival of !he ;;, barter of dispatches relating to it from Me t States. " Mr. Thrasher may be soon expecte" ;- country. The Democrats of Virg inia are to hut , . a Convention at Richmond , ' on the 21th ) I° ' : - next —Homy Clay liar been nominated for OP' dency by the 11'higs of Garrad Co., Hy. —A ALL has been reported to to the ro ns 4 nia House of Representative., to prohibit IheL , ufacture and sate ol intoxicating Irgnor, felvt its provisions to the Maine law, now so / 1 ° 1 ; hated throughout the country. s —The bill providing for the calling of , ot Convention to amend the Cons:Re:ion of I: ) !' has become a law. The Delegxes sre eJ at the n ext . en erat plied rr, 3'' ! the (oa rs ' will assemble in December
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