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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.
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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,
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kavv Am WATTLE.,
Aiitom egqisuric,
7Hlii FltMiugi;
Jess% ELLitirr,
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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 •
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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,
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me ! heta Case.
I. " `''.- % P I? a ' --4 rcnit Th ience e fi ': ' Il i
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.:-• to inquire whet
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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:: • •
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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
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.., 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