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Frcoduas far Frws Territorm.
C. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
Towanda, Saturday, Mardi 27, 1552
9411 noi cowatastossa.
wit. sr...mu - air, of !Fayette County.
Terms of The RepoSllllllr.
62 30 per endow—id pent vrittne the year SO cents wilt
be deducted—GA ouskpeid actually in advance 6100 will be
tbed.tered. No paper sent oVelr Iwo leaf*, unless petidTer.
%DVAILTIOLUZINTII. p.r square or ten hurt. de cents !or the
Brut and .25 euni s (or each Rube, quent insertion.
(Alice to Out " Union Illoric.” north side of the Tebbe
ave.:next door to the Itrwitura hotel, Emir:tree he.uree•
Messrs. Adams' and Eltietl's law offices.
- - - -
KrTdd edi:or of eie Repsiter i 3 unable by tea
, s Hi of -ieknes : to pay the sit,glilest attention to ibis
‘•reek's itsue,- - .%!lich must excuse be lack of esl•
i and whatever trlstakm ally occur.
11;c.t.1.1t AssortsTros..-Ma A. H Surril, arra tut
it is highly beht fr_tial Association, will remain for
a tew Jays more in this place; he may be fourkrl
at Wm. ithiges;Hotlford Hotel. We advise those
who wish to become members of this Association
to call soon as this is a rare opportunity. For terms
see ativertisment in another column.
Rallroad Convenllou at Bat►lmfre.
On Saturday last an impodant Convention assem•
blad in the city of Baltimore, tcrforward the project
of Makin.; a railroad from the west end of the Har
risburg bridge, the terminus of the York and Cum.
berland railroad, to Sumbury, and Williampott.—
The charter for this road was obtained (Sat wi tt ier,
and the object of this Convention was to effect an or•
ganizalian to obtain a sufficient amount of stock to
secure the construction of the toad.
Large delegations were in ratteriJanee from the
counties of Union, Lycoming, Perry, LF.erne, York
Eik, Lackawanna, Northumberland, Dauphin, Sus.
'Wy oming, Sullivan, Potter, Baltimore
city and county, and the officers and directors of the
Baltimore and Susquhanna railroad company.
Gen• Cameron was temporary president, übse-
riven ly, M/Toa maims, of Baltimore, was select.
as the permanent presidirq officer of the Conven•
tic, 1.
J he utmost entiloAlaam was manifested in favor
of the enti rprise, and it is believed that an impetus
waa given to It which wi l carry it through.
The Diodes Operandi.
Bearrorr, of the Carlisle Volunteer, who arcs
prom inei t candidate for Canal Commissioner, is
giving the public some insight into the proceedias
of the late State Convention•, The fAilnwings:Kiw«
that motives govt rued the comination for Canal
Commissioner:
« A n d now for a few words in regard to the mvt.
tier in oft ch the nomination of Mr. Searight via*
b.ought isb tut. The names of a number of gentle
men were presented to the Convention by their re ,
speetive fr:ends for this office, and among otheta
the name of the editor of this paper For many
weeks.pret•ioug to the meeting of the Convention
the p e t-ail i ng o; wee that the contest fur the
nom.nat.o.l would be between Cal Gordon F. Ma
sot', tit Bradtorti and ourself. lChen we arrived at
ft.irtisbutg, (a few clays AtefOre the assembling of
the Convention ) this opinion wasalmost universal.
With - Mr. Mason as our principal competitor. onr
friends felt sanguine of nor nomination. as we had
the nearly unanimous support of :he delegates from
the wrsti.rn and middle counties. Thns matters
stood. But, on the morning ot the day of the nomi
naion a nets " wrinkle" came to light. It appear
ed tl:rat the particular friends of Mr. Buchanan, who
1.a:l carrieJ every thing their-,own way the day pres
vious, felt trightened at what they had done, and
were eirceedingly anxious to satisfy the Cass men
an -1 appease their wrath it possible. So they held
a mit hi "ht caucus, and, by a nearly unanimous
_
amnr-• Nil. .feeravivred tar Canal
Commissioner. Mr Searight is well known as a
decided opponent of Mr. Buchanan. and 'becalms
he occupied this position, he was offered the nnmi
tiation by Buehatiatt's Helots ! The Buchanan dole
ga•es limn this section of the State, and those who
were favorable to the nomination of Mr Mason, or.
Mr Cummins, or Mr. Mott, were not let into the
sezret of this move, and, until the vote proved it,
they could not be made to believe that sunk an ar.
L i ogernent had been made. • They were convinced
o f it, however, vety soon after the voting eommen.
yeti
By this piece of legerdemain we were stripped
or a large majority of our friends. The western
41. lega'ea, a large portion of whom had expressed
a preteret ce for no, were transferred to Searighf,
arid, instead of haring some 45 votes on first ballot,
us ice would have had had this ' bargain and sale"
riot taken place, our vote was reduced to 17. And,
according to understanding, Mr. Searight was nom
inated on the fourth ballot.
Stall is a history of the means used to secure the
nomination of Mr. Seas ight, and at the Came. time
to satis the enemies of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Bo
tha:ran and his friendsmo doubt consider it a saga.
cious political movement, and perhsin it is. It is
and always has been a favorite policy with our" fa
vorite son" to reward his enemies at the expense
of hit friends. Gen. Cameron once said that the
only way to secure Mr Buchanan's influence was
fiot to abuse and denounce him, and you were then
certain of it, and we are not sure that there was not
some truth in the remark."
Tr! r PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR TUC N.
r nvcroN or TUE BLIND appears, from the nine
teenth annual report of the Managers, to bo in a
very prosperous condition. The noinberof pupils
not graduates in the work department's on the lst
f January, 1851, •cas 93 ; at • the same date
this year there were 107 Ot these 76 are from
Pennsylvania, 12 from Mary tind, 11 from New
lets•-y, 3 from Delaware, and 5 from other places.
simeierm of the whole supported themselves en.
urns ; ten do so in part, and sic are pay pupils. in
or itt part. The nuinbei of pupils and work
mtit li is been steartly increa,ing since January,
vsso, from R 1 to 10T. This Increase has been per•
by ad.:l:wile to the builtlinv, at1:1 the e•ilarg
e I n. r aal aiiimprisrions by the Legislature of Pena •
pylrania and Maryldnd.
GA DI.R:I ITN 'zit im ON ma Nbsatssiret —The
I b u i Curer states ihat lam week a party of
C tell New ()deans for Si Liu-
I OWd ninq the trip a gambler stained Wit
ei loved ono of them to en'er his state
r(l,..n 311.1 perrnaded him to take a "..!ass of liquor.
which, it wears, is-as drugged with morphine
Tao. Californian was immediately taken ill, lint coon
teeove:e,l, and wonlil have shot Willtanuinit dead
oh the son: but for the interference of 'the Captain
resel i i , ig a pl.tee named It.ekman, the passer.
[:,ens to(rk the law in their own hand, and seizing
the offender. pr sieeded to the wonds. tied him up
to a tree and gave hill .six/yecoe4 lashes .on his
b l are bark, and turned him knee n id that
every tgu:r ikuu.ja rite blestfrom flier:rot me:cti
vrhcia few* Pei std 3 mile.
Pita from %finds.
BELviocne l 1;oo.vz Co. hr.. March 17, 1332
M t. EDITOR :—To one unacenstnnted to muddy
streets turd-big boots, the streets of Belvidere at the
'present time wontdimptar indeed very disagrees.
We. We have mobilities of seasons here; the dry ,
and the wet season. The dry Oascin begins about
the first of Aptil mid continues to the first of Sep
tember. Then commences the wet season, ending
only in the advent of the dry. For 4lie past fall the
vireo., a : owl part of the time, have been almos
impassable, wh le on the prairies the " sloughs"
have been innumerable. Now you are ready to
14 if this is not an unhealthy country.' I have the
alliaavit of old settlers for Paying it is -not, but on
the contrary extremely healthy. The reason it is
so, I have not yet heard determined, but that there
are less agues and fevers etc , and en on, in this,
than in your own country, is a long settled lam—
Persons who go into a new country must expect to
meet with something nett': Most of oar Western
Stales have had some evil attached to their rich soil
and have con'equently been deprived of many
thousands of settlers ; and in fact'Southern Illinois
has been classed among. the sickly stales, and in
some years very justly, bat I am warranted in say.
ing that-Northern Illinois is as healthy if net
er than any portion of the Eastern States. For the
mt ten years there has been no fever led ague,
no sweeping summer fevers, nothing in main ilif•
lerent from the Eastern States ; on'thecontntry per.
sons who have removed here with shattered con
stitutions have been "made whole." Now as
am impartial as you have seen, the offset to all this
fair land is our muddy streets, which in strict jos.
lice are muddy enough; but bear in mind Mr. Edi
tor this is a new country, scarcely fifteen years have
gone by since the Red man struck his tent to go
beyond the Mississippi. And yet Belvidere has a
population of overlwo thousand souls, with Al fair
preepeet of standing among the first villages of the
northern part of the state. When I speak of mud,
Mr. Editor, I refer particularly to Belvidere, of the
surrounding country in that respect I can say but
4 , 7 and the stirring, bustling, effective enterprise
of our towns peop!e will not permit Belvidere to be
Called a muddy town much longer. Now do not
suppose Mr Editor that we are going to dig ditches
alone, or to depend upon our Supervisors to im
prove our streets, but we are going to do it our.
selves ; that is the way things are done here, iba
is to say that "all are disposed to the work," and
when any improvement isto be made, all are ready
to do something—speaking of enterprise, it is not
confined to a particular class, nor even to one man,
but young men as well as old have this spirit. En.
terprising, stirring, energetic young men form two.
thirds of our business populatnin. Those who have'
been here no more than eight or ten years and who
were worth nothing when they came, stand first in
business. This M owing to the unprecedented fa
cilities for making money. Lands bought at ten
shillings per acre is now worth from eight to ten
dollars. Persons holding that land ten years ago,
find themielves worth at this day thousands of dol
lars, so that he who was so poor is now rich as if
by magic. But with the decline of the land excite.
ment, there has been a gradual increase in stock so
that farmers will socr. arise from under the incubus
which has (we are compelled to say) been resting
upon them. The statistics of the port of Chicago,
show that it stands next to Cinannalti, the first pack
ring city in the Union. The amount of stock in
Pork and Beal whirl has been taken, in this past
fall and Vet:Jet is immense, some three weeks ago
one man pal on board the ears at this place twenty.
one tons of Pork bound for the northern market
The demand is still increasing, and I venture to say
that Illinois despite the croaking of Horace Greely
will in a ftw years stand next if not equal to Ohio.
Rail made too run in every direction through the
State are being constructed, and although with a
large debt at present, filteen years will not elapse
before Illinois will stand among the first for wealth
tta she is now for the superiority of her soil.
Yours truly, AN 01. D UMW
Leasing the "labile Works.
Theitriffovring ug a on r7 ea a paps/ aufkgriiii.il
week to the Legislature containing a proposi ion to
lease the finishe:t lines of rail-roads and canals of
this Commonwealth, has been furnished to the
Conn tr.
Ilaantesvuo, March 15, 1852
lion. Joint S. Rues,
Speaker of the Houu of Repreintatives:
SIR :—The undersigned, citizens of the Common.
wealth of Pennsylvania, respectfully submit the MI.
lowing proposition to lease the finished lines of the
Canals and Rimmed* of the Stale, for a term of ten
years from the first day of August next, and keep
the same in u good repair as when received; and
pay for the first year eight hundred liousand dol
lars, for the second year eight hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, anti for each aucceediLg year one
million dollars The payments to be made mouth
y to the State Treasurer, and secured by the de
posits of one hundred thousand dollar* in State
bonds They further propose to expend, in addi-
tion to the above payments, three hundred thousand
dollars towards the improvement of the Columbia
an.] Philadelphia railroad during the term et their
lease. And also to double the capacity of the locks
ors the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania ca
nal; and on the completion of the road to avoid
the incline planes on the Allegheny Portage , rail.
road, to pay eight per cent. per annum on , the mo•
ney hereafter appropriated and expended inwards
the construction thereof. They also propose to pay
seven pet cent. per annum on the sum of thirteen
hundred thousand dollars, on the completion of the
North Branch Canal, and its connection a i h the
Chemung Canal, in the State of New York ; and
they pray the Legialatare to enact a law authoriz
ing a contract to be made with the undersigned, or
their associates, in accordance with the terms of
their proposition.
Ail of which it most respectfully submitted.
E. J. Otrart, ?nos. S CLAREC,
HCNRY GRAM
JOHN BtNaHA3r,
J Acta; Does,
G►:,. W. HARM,
WM. F. I..r.Ecti,
A SAD Lcrson.—The ?rue American mentions
the appeaiance in Trenton of a man who had just
been released from the States Prison. after serving
a term of twenty years. During this time, the
march of improvement has been so rapid, that at.
moot every vestige of all that was familiar to him
then ha• been swept away, Cities and towns have
grown up. Railroads and telegraphs have been es-
Itibfished the ocean is navigated by steam ; in
short almost everything which to us appears old
Ana void of novelty, Mgt appear strange and. won
del Cul to him. tie entered his cell' of 8 by 10 a
young man; and comes out with the- marks of age,
and the stamp.of ignomy upon him.
11.710 ED TO DEATH—CoI. Thomas Iliwsack was
burned to death in his own house at Coolie-log.
Pa., on 'ha 4.11 inst. et son of COI. It saved his
lee 11 j,"„ r i. g f v , rn o thi r d ,tory
We are indelred to Senator Matthias far a copy
of the new liquor law which has been introduced
into the Pennsylvania Senate by Mr. Cerotheis.
The Preehtlues 0f it are these. Tie: Snit section for
bids the miumlatteoi of sale of litoxicating ligtore
of any km& The second section premeds/luta] the
Judges of the Chlerter Sessions in each county shall
on the first Monde; in July, appoint . suitable per
cons of wed!-known honesty, temperate and sober
habits, to buy or manufacture and sell, at such con
venient pellet in their ititirdiction as - the -judge,"
may deem expedient, liquor for sacramental, med
mectu.nical, or artistical purposes and for no
nines purpose whatever. These agents are to be
appointed f t one year and removable at a i I.
Section third provides that there regents shall
keep accurate accounts in writing of the liquor he
makes or buys, and also giving all the details of
each lot sold, with the quantity, place, person tram
whom. bought, the purpceo for which it was bought
dates, .Btc., and each person he sells to must sign a
written declaration of these particulars. Each agent
shall, if required, expose ell his accounts to public
semi-annnelly due notice of the event being given
in the newspapers ; and if judges think the pru
fits of the business too great they
. shall allow the
ageht a fair compensation and require the surplus to
be paid into the county treasury.
Section fourth provides that no agent shall act
until provided with credentials, to obtain which he
must give bonds to theamount of 9500 for the faith-
Jul performance of his euties and panicoluly to pay
over any surplus he may be required to.
Section fifih fixes the penalty for selling liquor
contrary to the' act at 530 and costs for the first of
fence, $6O and costs for the second, and for each
subsequent offence $2OO fine end 'costs, and impris
onment for not leas than two nor more than six
months. In default of payment of these fines for
the benefit of the insolvent laws until he has suffer
ed two months imprisonment, and for the tines for
subsequent offences, lour months imprisonment.
Section sixth makes n obligatory on every pers
on cognizant of any breach of duty on the part of
agents to notify the County Commissioners, who
must make inquiry, and if satisfied forfeit the ap.
poietment and sue out the bond.
Section seventh gives preceedene to snits under
this act in all the Courts of the State except over
those criminal suits where the parties are under ar•
rest and awaiting trial ; and noble prosequi shall
not be entered unless required for the manifest pur
poses of justice.
Section eight provides that on complaint of two
citizens that they have reason to believe liquor is
deposited fur sale by unauthorized agents in any
place, except custom houses and bonded warehou
• Uri ited States where the liquor
see utionguie, -
remain in'the original casks, barrels or packages
in which they are imported any Mayor Alderman,
or the justice of the Peace shall issue warrant and
have a search made, and all liquor found shall be
seized and taken to some secure place to await fi
nal action ; but no dwelling house in which, or in
patt of which a ship is not kept, shall be searched
unless at least one of said complainants shall testi
fy to some act of sale of intoxicating liquors within
by the occupant thereof, or by his consent or per.
tnission within at least one month of the time of
making said complaint ; and the owner or keeper
of said liquors aimed as aforraid, Oh. shill be
known to the officer seizing the same shall be sum.
monad forthwith before the officer to whose war•
rant the said liquors were seize and if lie fails to
appear or show by positive proof that the said li
quors are intended to be need by him in some me
chanical art in the pursuit of — telich he is at the
' time of such seisme actually encased, or that they
I are in his hands or possession as the transporter of
forwarding merchant in the coulee of actual transit
from one point out of the State, they shall be de
clared forfeited and shall be destroyed.
If the owner or bolder of any liquor seized be
unknown, it shall not be des-stayed until advertised
for two weeks.
Liquors seized and condemned are not to be de.
stroyed. if the owner appeals to the Court of Corn.
mon Pleas ; but he must give bail to prosecute
the snit, and pay p inalties, or the appeal is not al
lowed.
Sheriff's. aldermen and policemen, having rea
son to believe liquor is sold unanthorizedly, at any
panicolar.place. must make search fonhwith, seize
all such liquor and have it destroyed ; and the ven
dor, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned for sixty
days.
Debts for liquor sold authorized ly are not recov
erable at law.
Any person meninx or uivine liquor to intemper.
ate persons shall be fined 950 and costs for the firm
0t nce ; for each subsequent offence be fined 5100
and cilia', imprisoned fur six months. Such person
'hall also p a y for all injury or damages clone to
their families . y ire/b.:pers.:o petitions in consequent
of the liquor sold or given to the m which damage
are recoverable at law in the ns:ne of the State
The act provides 'hat it shall go into effect on 'he
first of May, 1853.
JER C. 511 MI BUTLER,
J. K. hlnoaticary,
bgit4 CL PHISITCH, r
J. B. Monnummo,
Wm. B. FORTICR,
Thii New . Liquor Law
Ter, BATTLE ReTWIEEN CARVAJAL AND Tilt MEI!.
cans_.—.The New Otleatis papery contain the details
o f the battle between Carvajalls Kara. and the
Mexicans, unciei Canales The engagement took
place near Camargo The itl."9lg,ents numbered
. 240, and the Mexicans about 701, but al an early
sage of the action a large number of Ihe fora "
were seized' with a panic and fled, so that the con •
test was maintained by little more than fitly men.
Canales reports that Carvajal was entirely routed,
and driven across the rivers San Joan and Rio Bra
vo in Inch confusion that an immense number
were drowned ; that forty-eight were found dead on
the field and twenty four wounded. Carvajal, how
ever gives a very different account. Accord.ng to
his statement the Mexicans, with 250 cavalry.
made a' desperate charge upon his forces, which
caused a serious stampede among the Mexican po
tion of his men, which induced a number of Ameri
cans to follow suit. The filly men who remained,
met the charge, and repulsed the Mexicans three
times with great slaughter, causing them finally to
retire across the San Juan.
It being nearly midnight, Carvajal's levees also
slowly retired ;on hearing which, Canal
ed, took possession of the field of bati
Carvajal's only gun, a twelve pounder
stand of arms. Carvajal admits the loss
ed, 23 wounded and 3 missing. Col.
among the wounded, and in his report
the Mexican lose at over 100 including
&ars of rank. It appears that a second panic seiz
ed Carvajal's men, and they positively refused to
advance on Camargo, which finally mdneed him
to reams the river, with only 22 men, all the rest
having deserted. The battle lasted two hours and
a half. W. T. Cake, clerk of Starcoanty, who was
with Carvajal, it is reported, was taken ty the
Mexicans and hang.
The following are said to be the killed and woand
ed in the several engagements between the Libe
rators and Mexicans, since the commencement of
the outbreak on the Rio Grande :
.Firat battle nt Camargo, Liberators, none killed,
5 wounded ; Mexicans, 40 killed and wounded
At Mattamoras, L's, 4 killed and 8 wounded ; M's,
50 killed and wonniled. At Cerralvo, Vs, 10 kill.
ed and 20 wounded; M's. 52 killed and 60 woun•
(led. 'rue last battle al Camaigo, L's, 8 killed, 16
wounded ;.M's, 70 killed, 100 wounded.
tun's° or Mose AT HOMR —ln looking over
a long list of drafts from Sacramento city, advice' ,
of which were received by the last Califotnia mail,
the editor of the New York Journal of Commerce
was struck with a large nOmbarmade payable to le
males, Out of one list 01' ni--.ety. , four names, thirty
four were of the class noticed; and no doubt many
of the rest made payable to the . other sex were in
tended likewise for women. This shows that fa
'there, husbands, anti brothtire, who are main , '
among the mines, have not forgotten the dear ones
at home.
Tot Rey. CALVIN Fonttalto,lately convicted at
bonoville, Kentucky ; of having abducted a fit:nate
slave and aided and hoisted her after her escape
to Indiana, has been sentenced to fifteen years, im•
rtisatiment in iha ti4tio Pepitentiary.
Far Days'Latifffrou Europe
New Was, March, 21 —me Pacific: arrived at
two o'clock,lafter a run of eleven Mays having peo4.-
Cnithe notiO:o. 'Si.a
Initigs.49 pagan:rem: Match lith, 11.30 A M,
met the Who heneef7th. Gat. 45, long .47 seen
large toranuttes of ice tothe Nottliand West. The
A:Mermen barges Olivia was entering dila . rivet 41111
die PacilStt, came nut.-
The Bullion in Bank is .£19,100 Colonial Pro
June Market was doing better. At Manchester,
trade-Witr active and spinners realizing good prot ,
its. Weather fine and thy and excellent seed
time.
The accounts from lndta are more favorable
The political news is oh little importance Par.
liament was to meet on the 12. Political ertette•
'meet hail abated
The tate of the late pending measures was un
certain.
In France, trade was improving and politics in a
more satistactory state; Fives quoted lo3#.
The Liverpool Courier in an article on the Anti-
Corn Law League, says, that although Mr. Cobden
and his myrmidons are actively at work, yet it will
be to no purpose, as the flattering prospects held
out to the people by them in 1845, have not been
realized. That the Continental ports are crying
aloud for protection and America derives the great
er portion of our revenue ham import duties ex
pressly acting to the exclusion of the productions of
British industry.
The Courier also speaks most commendably of
the newitlinistrit and that for the short time they
have been in office, they have done exceedingly
well . Ald Sidney was up for the Representation
of the City of London Parliament. A bill from
the British Telegraph Company, asking permission
to lay a line of railway upon adequate payment,
was to be brought up for a second reading in the
Commons on the 10th.
Three lives were lost on the North Western Rail•
way on the Bth inst. Another terrible explosion
from the fire damp had occurre3 at the Richwood
Colliery. A meeting occurred. on board the ship
Queen of the West lying at Liverpool bound for
New York, owing to some disagreement between
the Captain and crew, with regard to the proper
compliment of men for the ship. Freeman, one of
the crew, struck Capt. Morse, severely injaring
him, when they commenced among themselves,
with marling spikes and other dangerous instrum
ents, and in the flight, many of them were dread
fully gashed and mutilated. The ring leaders were
finally , secured and placed in itons.
c.arr, Of GOOD HOPE.
Dates to the 9th of January announce that 13,000
head of cattle had been' cap:ur&. ) troops, anti
General Somereet i Cot Eyre, and Major Wilmot of
the Royal Artillery were shot while attacking the
enemy. The troops were suffering from cold wea
ther and constant rains.
We learn from Paris that a grand review is to
take place in the Champ de Mars, on the 20th in
stant when it is anticipated that a mach stronger
demonstration in favnr of the estataishment of the
Empire will be math: than at the review at Sara.
tory. The 20:k was to be observed as the annaret•
sary of du, entry of Napoleon into Paris, on his re.
into from Elba 450 political priseneal were des.
patched to Ilavre on the eth.
The Senate and Legislative Corps have been
convoked for the 29th inat The Consul of State,
presided over by the President of the Republic will
be open some days previous, to examine the pro.
jests of law, previous to their coining before the
Deputies. M Heillault is named President of the
Legislative Corps. The simian returns continued
favorable to the government; It is rumored that the
President of he Republic contemplates to abolish
or very materially modify the army conscription.
Passports have been delivered to a number of per
sons, with an injuction to quit Pails within twenty.
font hours.
bleerzs name Khan. Mu ex prime Minister had
been ehockirgly murdered by one othi4 own house
hold,
A large number of persons of bail reputation and
without any apparent means of existence, have re.
ce.itly been arrested at Maditd. It if; estimated
that there are 30,000 of die same description lett in
that city.
The Parliamentary **skim •as opened by the
King on the 4th inst. In his speech he says that
his friendly relations with toreign States have un
ifergnne no change A treaty of Commerce and
Navtnatiun t.etween Sardinia and Austria is pub
lished. The Empeior of Austria anteed at Beroua
on the tat Seventh cenimutattoris of punishment
to political offenders have been granted The Sar.
ifinian Chamber of Deputtea have elected M Pi
relli as President.
The swiss papers announce that the difficulties
b etweet , die French Government and the MIPS
Confederation, hake, for the present, been • arrang.
ed. Tile Secretary pf the French Legation, at Berne
has arrived in Paris.
The treaty of Cnmmerce and Navigation between
England and Belgium, has passed the Chamber of
Bein-:ftentatives.
A general disitrmit:g of the Rajahs of the Twit
ish militia of Bosnia, has taken place. Every part
of the Austrian frontier is defended by large Wiest
of Turkish guards.
The preparations tor the re-elections were pro.
eding %vim much spirit. Trade war very languid
d the state of credit is still more deplorable.
A female convict in Sweden is now in ice on ex.
eriment, and a man was bound lately in Switzer
, d who gave' signs of life alter having been fro
n for nine months. The power of slopping while
e world goes on may be the next wonder. Ice
houses May soon be advertised with comfortable
arrangements for skipping an epoch, or waiting for
the next generation.
GOVEIINMEItT Slits Urines Pacrresv.—lt is stat
ed that a bill for $4,000, drawn by the Purser of a
U. S. ship on the Pacific' coast, upon the Depart
ment at Washington, and endorsed by the Com-
mander, was cashed at San Francisco, and for
warded to New York fur collection. On presenta
tion at Washington, payment was refused, and it
was returned to California. Within a few days, a
bill for Government supplies to the amount of 515-
000 was drawn by Capt. S. Van Viliet upon the
Quarter-master's De' ailment, and the draft forwar
ded by the cashier of one of the New York banks,
to Washington, for collection. On Monday it was
also returned accompaleditty the statement that
the-appropriations to that department have all been
expended, but that it would be paid as (win aston.
mess made the necessary appropriation.
ViSIOINIA TAX 8/ LI, —4he Viruinia'Hourie of De
leilatra, after a protracted clitwussion, has passed the
fax bill, which exempla every head of a family to
the value of $lOO worth of cattle. cheep and hots.
or in lieu thereof $lOO worth of raty other p open.)
not exempted, and all mineral prixhitnions in the
hands of the inridurer or miner. slid all wool of Nat
jeer's clip. rho radar:to of arty mechanic's labor
kept by him for wale, are also exempted. •
/CRUST OF A WIFE AND SOD FOR FoIqONIRG A Hui-
RAM, AND FATHER —A teamster named Roland
Brown, resitting nn Bumble street, near NI illereek.
died very suddenly tin Thursday last. Citcumstan•
ces have since transpired which led to the suspicion
that he was poisoned by those neare.t to lout in th r
ties ol blood and marriage. On S .tur t lay, offi cer ,.
Allen and Hardin took into custody Nancy Brown.
wife, and Mr Brown. Son of the deceased. on a war.
rant charging them with having committed this ter
tibia came, aittl• &rim Wed them to jail to await
theiretattlinatiba befor , the Mayor. A [tool mor
tern examination will beheld on the body of the
( * cal or ) which-is How e#l lo Pited itt the vault,
gtoriLAND
TRANCE
TCRPLIA.
=I
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IWITZERIAND.
ezt.awbf.
AUSTRIA
IRELAND
Stav6ry in Criiitonitsi
The large and respec'able body of out fellow cit.
iterils who said and itii,ngto than sl.fiery - could. not
exist in Caltlmnia and that all le:oblation for ita in
hoitticittat there tie la tiecessaix aiiil factions ; the
:mmee rh
t reatereir aho prountineed, rite Wilmot
i;
ro iri4grott'a a 0,4 —of no n-a to o r lei( ital ;Already
iffieicoily:'prineeted from slavery by the ecrepesl
-6d tenii-stlavery articles against it in the Mexicali
constitution ; and those who thought the patriarchal
institution was excluded from all our Pacific tern
',mien by the will ofti'orl ; all are invited to peruse
the ,iebate and proceedings of the Legislainre of this
ihrice protected state, upon a tall introdneed there
at the commencement of current session, gt for
the porrender of fugitives from labor)) They will
peweive that a hill hail passed the Assembly after
very 101 l debate by a vote of 42 to 11, Making a
slave of eveiy person within the state who *as - a
slave prior to the adoption of the constitution and
providing for his surrender to his owner umber the
stringent operation of the Fugitive SlavelaW of the
last Congress, rendered, if possible, moid stringent
by additional domestic provisions.
The bill has made thus much progress in flee of
the article of the California . constitution which pro.
vides that—
" Neither slavery nor unvoluntary servitude, Ott
lees for the , punishment of crimes, shall ever be
tolerated in this state."
The overwhelming vote in favor of this measure
in the Assembly disclosed the fact that the Legisla.
lure is under the dominion of a large pro-slavery 1
majority, and there is every reason to presume that 1
the next steamer will bring us intelligence that the
bill has passed the Senate, received the approval
of the Governor, and become a 'avr.
Such will be the end of all the learned exposi
tions about the operation of the laws of nature, of
the laws of Mexico, and the laws of God against
slavery in California. Thus, at one fell blow, hun
dreds of ne. - Joes, will be illegally and inhumanly
dragged back again into slavery in the United
States, after having perhaps, helped to earn a for
tune or their iinasters in California as a reward for
taking them to a country where they supposed the
chains fell from their bands the moment they had
landed.
But this is not the worst feature of the law in
question, though at first sight it appears to be. Who
or what is to protect the negroe who is carried into
the state since the adoption of the constitution, and
how is he to prove that he was neither brought there
before, or is not a runaway since 1 His own testi•
mony will not be taken,and every provision of the
bill is designed to t tiny him av ay before any op.
pottunity can be had of proving his freedom That,
such is the purpose of this part of the bill, is obvi
ous from the fact, that the bill of the !art Congress•
sufficiently covered cases of runaway slaves.
That bill, they re-enact, as if they supposedjbey
conid give it new force, adding a clause for the
@offender of a class of persons claiming to be free
under the operation of the Mexican and territorial
law, that the two provisions may operate together
an I as the most direct method of circumventing the
anti slavery articles of the constitution. Hencelorth
every Ware will as readily be Rowed to have en•
tered the state before the constitution was adopted
as in Cuba every slave can be shown to have been
importeo belore the Spar.ish treaties for the sup
pression of the slave trade.
True, the coristitutimt says, that from the day of
it. adoption. slavery should no , be tolerated in Cal
ifornia. and them in fact, destroyed whatever Claim
to unvoluntary service. any one within her binders
might have set up before bet that provision is en
irely
dif.rnarcletl and thi• toViPlainre 1 ) w porn
se., in open disregard of every ptittetple of Webb('
faith and public decency, In create a cia-s which
cannot consti.iiiintial exi-t there
In connection with !hi+ subjet t and as serving to
show the class of pro-slavery ittlineortes horn the
Atlatilic ems , at work in California. we call atten
tion to the following account of a petition present
ed to the Calif( •a Legi,boure.alait the same der
that the bill we have been ilipett-sity , pa-sad ft
is taken f nut the legislative report of the San Fran
circa Pidtarrne
SACRAMICNTO. Feb 10. 1852
Mr. Peachy r te.piriPtl err ordinary me
menial in the House this.mornin"—a memorial ot
tw , ive hu n dred and eighteen citizen. of South Car
olina Florida. asking the Legislature 01 Cali
f() nia to grint them as an essential benefit to this
state the privilege of becoming citizens—of identr
fying themselves permanently with nut interests—
and nlemigrating to our tonal districts with a vain
able and governable population in the relation of
property—by who.e peculiar labor alone. our valu
able soils mai , be rendered prodoctive and our wil
derness may be ma le " :n blossom like the rose."
They a4k permission to colonize a rural distrtet
with a population of not less than two thousand
slaves.
Vpn n the reading of this petition, SO you will rea
iltly conceive a hinhly esti tog wcurrell
A multitude of motions were made re-pectitig it,
buts motion to send it to the Committee on Feder
al Relations, finally prevailed A debate on a mo
tion to print was cut ofl by the previous question,
and the subject necessarily lies over till to-mor
row
It will be perceived that these twelve hundred
and eighteen citizens of South Carolina and Flori
da are not content with the indirect mode of viola
ting the constitution contemplated in the Assembly
; they have not respect enough for that instru
ment to lake the trouble to go around it ; they pre.
ter a direr: mad over it or through it They ask
leave to bring their " gdTernable population" with
them to California and the privilege of enjoying it
there The subject of printing this mCmorfal does
not appear to have come up again and we have no
means of ascertaining the sense of the House upon
it. But the fact hat a proposition vi as made to print
it, is ominous of a state of ft elir g more favorable to
the prayer of the memorialists than we can con
template without concern.
COMMUNION Wm —The Editor of The Main Folio
fain now speaking for Temperance through Connect'
cut; writes from Greenwich as follows:
" At Stanwich I met with an article to which I
wish to call the attention of churches in Maine. The
Question of using alcoholic wine at the communion
has long excited the attention of some of the ctur
ches of our state, and since the passage of the law
which makes no provision for " sacramental purpo
ses," some are anxious to know what they shall do
for that ordinance. For several years past the
Congregational Church in 8, has used the pure
juice of the grape,—" the fruit of the wine,—which
they manufacture themselves and preserve without
fermentation. I have a bottle of the wine made by
Mr. Clo - e of Stanwich, and which is now eighteen
months old, and perfectly sweet. I shall take it in
to Maine without any fear of a seizure, and shall
exhibit it to some of,our churches having no doubt
that they will prefer it to new rum and logwood.
h is prepared by adding one pound of sugar to two
pounds of the grape, and can be kept sweet for any
lenghth of time by bottling it up and keeping it in a
cool place. There are men here who would gladly
contract to supply the churches of Maine with this
pore article, and I hope an arrangement may be
made to that effect. I shall have more to say about
this orlon I return home."
QUAINT DVCRIPTION OF A PRIZIK Flour—The Oh o
Statesman otayst—A prize fight occurred A few d..yo
AliteP, flit the west hank of the &iota. opposite Col
umbus, below the Nit anal Roud, between the col
ebrateil Pat Bork. of Now Orlean-. s lezerher 01 the
and John W. Mil, inghtill, of Pittobutg, or late
of Tyronit enmity, iiriai r d, fi r step n „i,f,.
round Blirliirrmclied Mao down ; 2d. ad ; 4th an d so
Oil to the MTh room!, Mac kimekerl Bork down.
when Book *aid r atop." anti then flaked over th.'
enol booties as a compenoation to Mac for the
*boarrofttl flogging he trail
,bestoweil. Burk then
, rent home anr! laid a beof-otoak un each of hit.
peepers, whit , ' Mac and the boys adjourned to a
neigburing groggery to liquor
After the bell had tolled for the death of a child
of Mr. Japhei Deiberte, of Sobnylkili Haven Peon
sylvanin. porno doubts being entertained of its death.
I I was pined in warm water, end ree'ore.l m con.
Proceedingi or n'a Ltgislataft.
• tisitteussuito, March 224
Saga-M.—The Speaker laid before the S t „„
abs.r.rintot the arcomos of Weal Chaste
r „td plaC
oweildial Railroad C. onspariy.
Th e tellownig Nils ame taken up and
Committefl of the Whole :
-A bill_fak die relief of the ereditote of the&
henna Railroad Company
To incorporate tee Lackawanna hoe end
Company.
A supplement to the act iniorpoiating ti
henna Railroad Company.
The bill relating to the taxing of the pr6 cit ,
the Public Schools found by charter in the r il l
Philadelphia, was taken upend passed
The billowing among a number of other bid
were red in place:
To Mem, orate the Mechanics' Ser i no
riot, of Harrisburg.
A bill con truing the act of the gth of April, p ; _
relative to a 5300 exemption.
To enable illegitimate children to inhei
pretty of the mother.
To incorporate the Unionßailroad tomr en ,
To incorporate the Mechanics' Mutual 1.1fe,'1,1
Health Insurance Company..
The bill prohibiting the mandfacture and in,
intoxicating liquors in this Commonwealth
taken op in Committee of the Whole. '
Mr. Mathias moved an amendment, wh,e,
negatived, excluding the city and county 0:
,
delphia from the operation of the bill.
Mr Forsyth moved en amendmedment
a .
ling the whole matter to a vote of the NA
which was agreed to.
Mr. Sanderson moved an amendment prikil,
the sale of liquor for two weeks prior to : 0 ,7 01 ,.
tion, with saview he said, of keeping Peopleekr
in order they may know how to vote.
The amendment was rejected.
The bill was then laid aside.
The Senate then resumed on second readie r
consideration of the bill authcaizirig a kr, :
8850,000 to complete the North Branch erne
of the Pennsylvania Canal.
The bill was debated at length, and withoet*;
nite action upon it the Senate adjourned. •
House —The House, on motion of Mr. fl ant ,
proceeded to the consideration of the bill Telene t ,
taxes on dividend', &c., of the Banks of the Ce:
monwealth, exempting the Banks from the opt
lion of the tax section of the act of 1845.
The bill gave rise to a very lengthy di,e
which was continued until the adjournment.
StNITE.—The Committee on Banks repot* .
supplement to the Act incorporating the Doylcra e
Batik, Bucks county.
Bill introduced.—For a re•sorvey of the ,
lines between Pike and IVayne.
The Senate then took up the bill prolubit el le
manufacture and sale of intoxicating hcrar4rreir'
to the Maine Law.
Mr. Motile!) moved an amendmen‘,A a t
any property, real or personal, is deprecated
the operation of the proposed law, than the
so injured be allowed to bring an action •
Commonwealth for damages.
Mr. Muhlenberg advocated his amendment,
argument of great force, during which-he a,
the whole army at the United Slates mul..pls
ten, could not enforce such a law as the rct
posed it, the State of Pennsylvania.
Messrs Carothers, Sandstorm arid Kunkel.
at favor of the bils as a stood against the
meal.
Mr. Nlohlenherg rejoined. He,was
on the course pursued by a number of Cis
in relation to the bill He thougbr they d o ,„
therm than gad. He said that the New F.ort
(dieted no patalelletl. in this case—they lire
der a'uortisre of civil and ecclestasticai pe t
to which Pennsylvania would never conscr.
then cited the down east Blue Laws In skr
his argument.
Mr. Buckalew spoke for some time in Itt:
the amendment.
The question being taken on Mr. Moli!e:.
amendment. it was rejected—yeas 10 haytr
The question was then taken on the fittoe
of the bill and it was adopted—yeas 19,
Year—Messrs Barnes, Carothers, Cars.
Ferntni, Forsyth. Guernsey, Hamilton,
bl Ilyri
Harden, Hoge, McFand, Mcurtrie,
Myers Pecker, Robertson, Sanderson. Sinet—i.'
Nays—Messrs. Batley, Buckalevr, Crabb.i'
linston, Frailey, Fulton, Jones. Kitizsy.
McCaslin, 'Matthias, Shimer, Walker-11
The debate upon the bill was then cocaine(
to the adjournment.
Mousy.--The joint resolutions against the cri
of arty approprimiona by the general Gort.r..4
in aid of the Collins' line of Ocean Steamert.r4;
taken up and passed finally—yeas bO, nairs
The supplement to the act it corporaing,n4
aware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susqueharuk.
road, was taken up, discussed at considembil
and then postponed
Several unimportant bills were considerta
passed, and the House adjourned.
Tim Warm is Toes COUNTY, P 1 —Wet,
the particulars of a shocking murder =ma'
Stewart's Town, York county, Pa. on ti'eas.r.%
last, on the person of a little girl name! E..iu :.
Busier, daughter of Jacob Basler, of that Ism, .
the absence of both her parents. It was Inv
ed that the deed had been committed try s ,
said to have been seen in the nerghborfroi.ni
Saturday a suspected person was weer! a"-
city. Since that however , it was reForal
Catharine Busier, eget! abrjnit la ei re yam. re+
ter of the murdered girl, had confessed than
the murderess. This report is confirmed
was who arrived here from York cowl
quently. It appears that the deceased had
erred to tell her mother that Ca harms had
something out of the closet, whereupon 1 t
struck her a violent blow, and seized the it ,
knife, deliberately, cut her throat from ear RIO
She then took the irfant child of her pareoll
escaped, but soon alter returned. and concreo
story elicled before +he coroner's argues: ihvl
old wan entering the house and common; :a:
rid deed. The girl Catharine has Fiore tee
rested arid committed to jail at York county ..or
her trial.
soma aunnipm.—A girl, hying as a sonny':
family in Worcester, Mass., retired forth •
as usual, to her chamber in the attic, three'
from the ground; and about mii night the
and some of the neighbors were awakened ti..
ful shrieks, which suddenly ceased Her ' '
immediately arose ) and although nothing m - t
be heared, proceeded to search the house ix t i
cause of the outcry, but finding nothing be
a window and saw an object stiuggt , ti!. l :
ground below, which proved to he the girl
mentioned. She was immediately eared I °'
on Min:Wing her, consciousness, said Its
dreamed that somelpergon wished her toner!:
the window, and that she next found herrello .
It appears she had got up in her sleep• ore''.
window and taken the fearful step. It is el:*
-he awoke and shrieked while fal'ing, ", e
1 ,.
stunned on sinking the ground,u upon who,
hail been a light fall of snow What ti the
rernerlcnble, she escaped with only a fete ^6
l'alixem: 'hunt' has nig stepped hoot the aur , --
ry window
Eu
SUMEIO4IT AND ERIE 114111: 0 41) .-- Th d
ver of the , * 18 1 ! nist :
The sub eriptions. hoth by in l iv iikok , s•
vorporatioork, bp the s blur and Kos wad
finely. Judge 3111 es. We see arts "
'Manned about 825 000 in the n eightarboa lci
ani, and 1+ now in the sonthent part of the 06!
411 . 1 M2 co ilfll
nsiderobto A 4 daily ‘Vateroni
fur $25 000. while Erie and the nemidonsi.
, ro are confident. will add a very 102 11141° I
final azconni. I%'erren cocnry has strbulrinol,l
000, and the borough of Warren coadittonaity,,l
put 830,000 more on the I p of it, War rea)
leached 850 000 and thi. sum i s coattail!
swelled by additions Altogether, we think Irv)
have enough sub cubed 1:115 ‘lOllrY to lr
the Directors in pu!liog the fhte 6n til;to
s'^u'hitn - th" ("3 , ' r "1"