Wrottgeirt) 4eporfer. _ Free Soli, Free Speech, Free Men lirmterm few Prep Territory. E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR., Towanda, Saturday, April 24, 1552. Tn. TAT.it coIouTTIONTT. wn. SEAttiaar, of Fayette County Terns. or The Prportier. as so per annum—if paid within the year 30 . rente will he(dudastedeefor eastipaid actually in advance $1 00 wilt tke dad:Wad. No paper scut over two years. ouless paid for. Aurstirteversts. per square of ten liner. 50 rein 'for the awn and 25 semi for each stdisequent insertion. Kr Oars in the .• Union Block." 'north side of the Pubhe limareZnevtddor to the Bradford Hovel. Entrance be.wettt Wows. Manta' and Elwell's law ottees. - - - - Massa tor ingler I The present session has been distinguished for the onsernpvlonsness of its legislation. -it hsa be. come a notorions fact, that the House is Dento erotic by a large majority, it is not difficult to pro. ewe the passage of lawn the most outrageous, petting. at defiance the public rights and the public morals. Such venality and .c.orroption have never before been 4 known. Bribes have been unblushingly and openly-offered and taken. Bank after bank has asked, not in Vain, t-'r special privilege ';and mo nopolies -have been granted the most monstrous de mands. But in the way of the consummation of these gross wrongs,'stands the Veto Power. Fortunately ii is vested 'n a mart whose highest ambition and greatest care is to guard the rights of the people from the'rliahrest encroachment. Truly and faith fully has ,the glllani BIGLER used the power confer ed upon him by the people.: If Democratic mem bers of the Legislature prove treacherous and cor ny', the public ran rely with perfect conlidenc'e upon the Executive they have chosen, to overthrow the machinations of dishonest speculators, and truly and faithfully guard the interests and rights of the people. In our columns truday, will be found the Govern• or's veto of the bill allowing the Pennsylvania Rail road certain privileges. The telegraph also informs us that he has also vetoed the whole batch of bills crewing new banks, passed some days ago. For this, all honor be to Bumert! It is no more than we expected, and yet we teal like thanking him— This democratic and tearless conduct will undouht. edly bring down upon him the concenirated denun ciations of all the dishonest, plundering, thieving rascals in the Commonwealth—wily array against him that growitig monopoly, the Pennsylvania RAil• road—yet the people have such a realization of the honesty, integrity, anti stern, unyielding Jacksonism which are united in Gov. &nen, that they will rally around him, and carry him safely and in tri• umph through theOtorms which may be raised. a' Cte An editor,'is very properly held accountable for whatever appears in the editorial columns of his paper, regardless of the true authorship. This rule is a gnod one, and yet in mentioning that the Argus was enriched by the labors of amateurs," we only intended to direct public attention in that direction ; for we knew the modesty of the parties themselves would never permit the public to be stow the credit which should attach to such labors. In short, as a simple act of justice, we wished to announce that our neighbor's columns are the ie• ceptacle of the thoughts and labors of a number of amateurs"—leaving the public to asceitain, as best they might, who they are. We certainly an mounced the fact, in a no spit it of contempt, or of it nature. But our allusion has stirred rip some of the gentlemen, and this week's' ilcsus contains a very indignant article upon the subject of editorial duties in general. We confess ourselves amused ; if not instructed by its perusal. and it illustrates haw some folks understand other people's business better than their own_ Q" The Pennsylvanian of the 13th inst., con.• tins .a letter purpotting to be from ibis place, dated the 2d, in relation to the him State Convention. end regarding several prominent democrats of this County. We had hoped when that paper.passed from Emirs, that its tone wool] be etangeil for the belt: r— but we have been disappointed. What Foals v advocated with unscrupulons ability, the present editor supports with imbecile and silly a t. tempts at argements. In short, whatever talent has ever been associa , ml with the paper, has now left is—and it has become a weak and silly affair...so mach so as to be a laughing-stock and subject of deri.ion among its friends. It has now but two ideas—rum and slavery. It no more rispreseins the Democracy of this Commonwealth, than does the Washington Union. The letter in question, was newer written by a citizen of Bradford Count). We do not believe there could be found in this whole county, a demo crat so Ruddy debased and lost to truth, as to per. petrate such a lying and malicious fabrication.— Land we have same mighty mean politicians in oar borders .It is e i riidently the work of some " out. side barbarian," who hopes by such scandalous means to call off public attention from the outrage lately perpetrated upon this DiPtrict by the appoint. ment °fa Whig to represent us in the Baltimore Convention.- The attacks of such atlonymous letter +writers can ailed no one here--.and we are confident that , the• gentlemen assailed veto° well known abroad to be injured by such cowardice and falsehoods. We Jeam that H. S. & C: r. arELLICS jr., of this county, have closed a_contract with the N.Y.& E R. R Co to build their second or double trackkfrom ovrev, to Junction west of Elmira. The well known energy of the contractors will insure the completion of this contract at an flatly day. We understar,d the contractors will be ready to re-let the work about the 26 h inst. AMERICAN Hov=e.—This is now one of the best houses at Wilksbarre, and when we say it is kept by our old friend, O. S. 11)4PP, the public have a guarantee that a more attentive and agreeable land lord is not to be found in all their travels. The Amerimin is a net house, splendidly furnished, end we advise our friends visiting Wilksbarre, to give it a trial. _ • Irr A new counterfeit $lOO bill, on the Northern )ip i n k ot j►edluCkj, 14.-iippeareire at Si. -—— r — Veto itelefillerf' --- "'" ,- ''''' , - lb flat 4sokalld lit. I*ltswitotivest....„, , ..,,- 2.4ascruitts iperew tetra . hit helousik4. oE Itelnesentilliveicia:Whichji orOutteitibillNo.4ll2l entitled ";.An Act tolishbrize,AlariiileititiNett' r dish of iturlchildre ; of Sltilliatn%ltilailirr, Slecelkt4e tcrielrrealestate, "tid itirifietupplesnent faddist nel.incorplWating‘ I Petiektleania„ltailtor.diOnt•L patty " ' . The third section of this bill -authorizes said coin. pithy- kttatithe andlioldAtstitle•tothiee,weridess Imes in Weill Philadelphia, its the Courey'ofttillal delphia, one thereof called Powelton,, owned now or late by John Hare Puwel, and the other owned now or late by the city ; of Philadelphia, and by the Board of Health respectively:" There is here no limit expressed as to the amount cillandlohetaltim' and held; but I lehrn troth it drift of these givers l estates, that they ctintairi_over . ouslundrekl, acts? a . and are situated on both sides of the 'PhilairelPhiu '. and Columbia"tailroad, and that commencing near the hlaiket street triage, they eittetid taring both sides of this rued fur a bout thteequariere of a mile from its tern inus, whin they adjoin on land ° M or d Ashberton. The provion to the Sit section sets forth' that utter the e xpiration'nffiveyears, the said me i parry plaid riot•ittild more than ninety, Romeo( this laud, nor devote nor use the same for any purppre not authorized by the act incorpoiating the company. This, however, is further explained by aft infdition. al proviso, which, in substance,. declares that after five years they-ma y hold the quantity , of is ninety acres el land in, and near Poiladelphia, fq the uses and purposes of iiid company," without directly re. meeting its uses lathe legitimate purposes for which the corporation wag create& They another; rewriet. ed for the first five years to the uses and purposes Inn which the corporation was created, and steel fitli years to the uses and purposes of said company It is, therefore, at least questionable. whether uneer this double proviock,lhe company after the expires lion of five years, could not hold and use the quan tity of ninety acres for any thing they might see proper to •deeignate as their noes and purposes, whether contemplatetl by their original chaner or toot. With the almost disposition to co-operate with the General Assembly in the adoption at every proper measure to promote the success ol the Pennsylvan ia railroad, I have not been able to swish mysell that duty requires my approval of this hill. Nor can I be persuaded that possession of so large a quantity of land is necessary to the accomplishment of the legitimate purposes ot thiscorporation, much less that it is the true policy of the State to allow it to be so possessed. To waive, for the present, the great qeestion of public policy involved, of allow ing corporations, with an unlimited existence, to ho'd large landed estates, and come down to an ex• am in ation of the practical operations of this propos. ed measure, we will discover that these several estates embrace all the land on both sides of the eastern tei 11111111 S W . the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad, and extend lilting it for about three-quay hers tit a mile This road belongs to the public, and the Commnnn;ealth should see that its tree use be enjoyed alike by all her citizens. This might not be the case were the land• in question entirely awn ! ed and controlled by this corporation. Even the Commonwealri herself might be obsoletely or vir. tually deprived of the necessary space at this ter minus of the State meta, to answer her own par. pose. It would to em but reasonable that she should reteive fur herself whidever land may be necessary for depots, sidelines, car-house. machine shops and so forth ; nor should she be unmindful of the rights and interests of individual :Wizens who may desire to do Wellies, on the Stine works. She should al so see, as far as she may properly do so. that they have a fair opportunity of acquiring the necessary lands for their eurplises. It is true, that depots,• ware-houses car.houses machine shops &a., are now nearly ii . not quite all found on the east side of the Sehoylkill river. Bet this, lam confident, will not long remain the care. A few years, itt my opin ion, will serve to force all this business• to the west side ot the Schuylkill. Already thequestion disk ing up the railroad in Market street is agitated, and there can be but little doubt that this, proposition will be carried out in a hew years. When this shall have been done, all the commission or forwarding men, transporters and machinists, in anywise con nected with the business on our two great thorough- fares, will look to the west side of the Schuylkill as the point tor their operations. Then, and not tin then. will the error of allowing this corporation the right to monopolize so large a body Of land, at this important point, be made manifest, and the rights and interests of the State and individual citizens made to suffer. To those who will look back into 'the history ol the past, and be governed by its teach toes in reference to the future, these anticipations will not seem to be imaginative. The man at Phil. adelphis, still young, who remembers the sparsely inhabited district that might have been seen a few years since, between Broad street and the Schuyl kill river, will predict that the results in which I have referred will be realized with.ii a short period. It is the port of wisdom to cousin* the past 111 ol der to understand how to act wisely in reference to the future. dp Possessed of this large district of land, the Penn. eye mein Railroad company could deprive inetvids earls desiring to do business on the state' mail. featly fair opportenity of doing so. Without consent nt this company landscould not be hail in that vicin. iiy at 011, tulles* the estate ol Lord Ashburton could be I r uht into market, and even it Ibis were done there is but a small poition ol this betweeti the line ' ot the Powe:ton estate, and the point at which the road enters the deep cut arid becomes inaccessablit to the suriounding country. Besides, if this were not so, the expenses ot drayage to this extreme point, would be fatal to the interest* of parties CM. patio% with the Pennsylvania company in the bus. Mess re transporting.' Alter a deliberate examine hoe of this whole subject, with due reference, I hope, to the interests of all concerned, l can see no sufficient reason tor the adoption of a policy fraught with such hazardous consequences to the state and the people. It is against the policy of our govern ment to allow artificial bodies who net er die, to monopolize large quantities of real estate. Even if this were not so, I have been unable to discover that the legitimate purpose. or true interests of this corporation, require that it should possess such an "extenrive.area of land. it certainly should not be allowed to hold it except tor the purpose cnntemplat ed in the original chaneee-and if not necessary for such uses, as I am confident it. is not, it is too valu able to be withdrawn from the use of the individual citizen. - There should be no objection, it seems to me, to giving this company the right tn hold a mo. derate amount ot land on which to erect car.houses, depots, sidelings, Am Sic. ' But their rights shobld not be exclusive...this - should not be the case an the terminus of their own road,. much less at that of the State. The original act of tocorporation gives this company the right to take and hold all the lands necessary to the propose of their wail, but as - thi lands in question weriot located.within. their ,col. potato limits-being more than. ajo t odrat miles distant born the terminus of their ;work, it Must be perfectly apparent that the &impiety cannot - lake and hold said lands 'in anyilasthirr than ',lNVMullet., proposed by' this bill. •Corpoostions have no riche, to purchase of hold lands mileexpressly autholiz• eel to do so by . the terMs of the feharter. Whetter- ITes authoiity is given them* old lands. in reetriel ed quantities, or those her:essay , for their corporate purposes, they have no right to hold a greater gnat thy in the , one case, nor any. Ittat are not necessary for snob purposes in the other; even though it might be convetitent So to do. In all cases of such par chase the lands are forfeited to the 'commonwealth because of the violations of the terms of the chart er and the infringement of the sovereignty, of the .state, whenever the commonwealth chooses to.ex• act such forfeiture, lithe very fact of making the purchase does not of iteellincodnee such minks It is said, andlternapet correctly said, that 'at the experation of ten orAlteetv yaws the , business on their work *Ube so exionsi!e AS to.occupy a very large space of ground If this Should prose correct, I have no &tub% the Legislature will add to the limas of this company sufficient to answer their !legitimate • perpost.s. Ir ter also. Wigged that munli ''. room' will . oe twinned its detain the live .8;004-which will be trioso4e.l from the well by this - Void; it Sii, Vali vidormi orfthiflittis of die I , e4tif; I iiinletfidint, "MI •,. - '•`" • •-' , - - i K.-_; OE =I freight of Mitt character, and br the mete pupae Olunloadingittmcompany might cent Mforncbase groom, a Ole % Oro from the impsAnXitointeiii ~.kiimusi ap*enl that the p t t rt t alnimmtol thicipitalAtilnacomiamy will notlcienvo cinrrlPlete wco, and I can, ther4ore, no* jecifOneici:ihat min of the bill arhich ; lauthoiiinOn iticietie s ortherdpital to the extent of - ittien U a l. lions. WM. BIGLER. 4H _AccnTra..C.cl9l l llol , l itinibtiti, April 18; 18 52. - • IMPORTANT Bn.t..—The 'following bill passed 6 -malty -in the House 91 Representatives : - - • fie, itimacted, , Sto lif4ratif (044' 1 0W 'cation of any erniVict by , banging shall be Weed j!!JktkPfm,./e4r-arif •The-Wit!Melk.. ol 4 ,l llb-eltidi have been 'and' iaitiftai period;' if tin 'circumstance , ' shall have-come Ito' light to render .doubtful•the correctness of the:serdiet of the jury in the matter, the Governor shall then issue. his . . war. raiit for such execution.' Pmtrided, rho! tram the time of Cons - Mliedici the time of execution the con vict shall be confined in tine of the pinitentisties for the safeskeeping of convicts of this Common• wealth, as is nos? provided bxlaw. Stenos 2 Thai . upon the tendition of .any.ver. diet _of guilty of norider in :the first degree," against any person or chasfrediherewith iu any court of this Commonwealth, it shall- and may be lawful but the jury .reniteting the same. .in their iliscretine, to recommend theAtertion or persons so chareed' end eniivictett to the mercy of the court And every person duly 'convicted. Of mums - r in the first degree. whom the jury en eatorictionr shall re eirmm.eitel to the mercy of the Court. shall • be sen tenced to undergo an riftpriAmnient in one of the State penitentiaries. as the case may be, and in be kept in separate or solitary confinement at labor for a perind not less than -fifteen not move than fifty yea's. =NI Tete Berrtz or Lexiscrion—The first delibenre conflict in the American Revolution—was - knight on the 39th ol April, 1715 i—seventy-seven years' ago this day. The pantes were a detachment of British light troops sent from BestOrrm destroy a de pot of 44 rebel" munitions at Concord, Mass., and the Lexington company of Militia - ' who, hearing ol the approach al the British, had been hastil' assem bled ar-day break to oppose their progress. There was in fact no battle—the " rebels" being over whelmingly outnumbered, atd only standing to re ceive one close volley from the British, by which a number were killed and wounded Tney theta broke and fled, and the British proceeded and des 'toyed the stores at Concord, but' were closely pur sued on their retreat by a constantly increasing ftree. of 44 rebels," who fired et them with deadly effect from every wood and from behind every wall, un til they were covered near Minton by Iresh troops sent to their relief. The importance of this con flict lies wholly in its effect nn the pnblic mind of the Colonists, already intensely excited by Royal as-aults on their Liberties. As the news spread, needy every New-Englander dropped his axe seiz ed his musket and started, and in a few days Gen. awe with eight thousand regulars found filmset' besieged in Bo.ton by an impromptu army of twen ty Mousier! men The battle of Lexington was the tocsin ol the Revolution -JONATHAN HA tRINGTON, the lag survivor of the Americaer who received that first British volley at Lexing,ton, i• now President ol the r Lexington Monument Association,'' which is endeavoring in erect a suitable memorial ol the events of April 19, 1775. We trust this end may be accomplished.v— Tribune. CIIINS.--.Destniction of Hong Kong—Hundreds of ' Lime Lost..—The Sam Franco.co Herald of March sth, contains the following : We have the following particulars of she great fire at Hong Kong, in the Tlio•unn of March 3: The bark Wrn Watson arrived yesterday, 60 data from 'Hong Kong. bring* Intelligence of a ma dirastrinis conflagration nil that city Neatly all the city is consumed Hundreds of lives have beers lost. Every newspaper office has been destroyed. The bark brings no fries, anti we are dependent on she officers of the vessel for the l am particulars which we subjoin. The fire occurred rut the 26.11 of December, and commenced us she China Bazar It spreatt with fearful rapidity among the bamboo houses of she ,Chinese, and soon communicated so the fittest part of she b 'coming perfectly rAiistless. The loss of life arming the Chinese was dreadful. The nnmber that perished had not been ascertains I. One Colonel of an English regiment lost hit life in the attempt to blow up a building and arrest the flames. Also a Lieutenant belonging to H B. M. ship Hastings was killed by the falling timbers of a house which had been blown op. A Sergeant of 'rapier+ and miners met a similar fate The public market was destroyed, and much snflerin2 was experienced for a new days after the fire. The Governor and Sir Wm Bowmen had convoked Inc Council. and a.notrg other provisions adopted for die pubis, welfare was (me forbidding the construction of bamboo houses. The Chinese houses were to be built of statue. or of the material used in the construction of the Vietorine Roods All the piloting tams?' were &milled wiili the finept edifiers and public buiklings m Hong Kunz Wr have not yt , t been able to procure further par &Oars of this clisapier. A surrttea Rowe ce It/VA-lon !-L. r The appninimen of •Pierre ficiisparie, a cousin of the French PIPOi. den► to the Consulate at Cha leston, with a salary of PiT 111011.11.111 i lif.11:11N, is beginning to occasion speculation on the past oldie Ame•ricnn press In constectitiii with thi* appointment, the Paris cones. 'poinletit or a morning contemporary mentions that a large number of Fiench soldiers have been sent out to California in disguise, and that the large French fleet In the Pacific, •ostensibly destined in watch Japan, is most likely intended to operate against California. The two facts are considered, by the onrrespontlent in question to forebnde like intentions on the part of the future Emperor, agsensa this republic. We should Fist like to see the bold French Dan,. per attempt this gamel The Universal Yankee Nation. we guess, cyanid snan teach him the doe. trine of " non intervention" by arguments ouch a* Eossurti doubtless dreams of, but dare tint hope to see need in behalf of his own bleeding, Hungary. UNPLEA•AIer, Dectozomr —The Boston Gazette, desceibes a fanny Incident which lately took place in that city. It appears that' a lady whose notions of propriety would not permit her in visit the thea ter, to see Lola Monies, determined to have a look it the dancer off the stage. Lola bilged at the f tifl whene the lady boarded, sn after she darwerre. tuned from the 'heater the .lacy walked softly to , She door , and peeped through the crack. Judgapf her surprise. when she saw her own husband seat. ett at the table taking a cozy oyster sapper with , the object of her abhorrence -• • Movinacem or Kean . ' rut —A telegraphic des patch announces the arrival of Gor. Kossuth at Chsilesmo. The Mobile papers contain , .long-ac-4 iodic, of his receplcm in that city, which appear. to have heen'of the most enthusiastic character.— The Mobile Herald ant Tribune says the meeting which he midmost! at the Amphitheatre, on the 3d inst.. was the largest ever . assemhletl in Mobile. His speech, slier a few paragraphs in refeirtice to Senator Clemens avowed peramml hostility to him. war mainly a repetition of his views on the object. of intervention. . Accroare A boqeg,ed about II years, Kit! of Mr 'Fiorito Whitman, of Hancock. wts intoatilly killed on Monday martina.last, by being tun , oser by a freight Train. The boy war/Am./his platform, and as the cars started endeavored to jump on, the motion of the cats thieve him' back and he fell, be tween them ; the wheels Owed- otter him tcrush ing his•body and emoting instant death: in quest (11 ! , qmniet, and the jot)? found a verdict in- accordsamtwith the above facts.—Mpoeil ccuiittrA- " —v.• t. - Thi Amerwsi mail j a v inishipikiefie, Capl Luce 'Pk f l 140 - after' a periage (ten Asp irld",eightelfn hrs s the Allatifia. 00 , let4iveroli on linfetlOtos.htyilhe '7lh *k. "ightiriteanpiCrewif4444 bat+, da t itiTlam. son leak`LiviHpoof ofrtliOiamel;;;Bay', Sit ifew = T01L1,4 , alltrices from' pd atnt kitstritilfrire Moe days later than ourprevions,aCemints and,two or three weeks later from the,Ospe of Ot..mi, "'Theitilii - iiirleiti firAt•liiiion'the Her Majesty's (simmer Birkenhead met with' a terrible disaster-an the cloist of Sontherti Africa, near Point Danger,.at 2 o'clock, A. IA on the 26th of Feb•naly lest, by which 454 lives were loaf. ft eppoapt that the steamer. was of lon way from 5t Simensbaild'Al'qna bey,east of 'dieters, ind the captain was anxious to make a short run._ She •'hair," anti ; within two orthres miles of the shore,., off Point Danger, when she,struck a rock which pasaetl in to her bottom just aft the foremast, and shit sunk in abbot twenty minutes. The rush of the, trater was re great that the men on• the lower troop reek were dmwned.in their hammocks. Those of the salient who reached the upper der k were indered•to fall in their places, which they (NI is cooly as it they were on parade. Not a Mar mar ws - • uttered; not a lair expressed ; they' took their stations at the pampa, or the-beat tackles. in perfect order anti behaved as if they :were about to embark, ineenti about to .perish Within fifteen minutes after the year*, attack, her bow brae nfl. In five minutes more, the hall broke in two, ate& wire end the stern mimed and went down: Our I unfired and eighty-four persons,-amontr who were all the Woman and children, were saved. The latter were quietly passed over the aide into ship'seutter. 44 Ac usual says the accorinfthe nth or boats were notlirtheontitic." One -gig and two cutters were, with great difficulty made available by the survivors. It is a mrions tact. that the most on the pie of one of die davits caused ii to adhere so firmly. that one of the paddle boar-boxes conhl .net' be ant oat ! What -a striking lesson is this in favor of lite-boats, sorb as are partially in use in dos country, made of iron..and p.otectrd - in all of their parts, from rust, by galvo-galvanism Many of those who were drifting on the spars and fragments of the vessel were happily rescued by a schooner which happened to be near, but a large number perished among the seaweed on the roast. The soldiers on board were drafts front the differentlegiments. A bill'is lingering in'the Uni ted States Sehlue r devigned to secure the lives of passengers and seamen from the dangers of fire and shipwreet• at sea It is to be hoped that the new calamity will induce its immediate passage. TRASCIe ,The. French Chambers have decreed an annuity of 12,000,000. francs to the President, whit+ it' the principal event of importance intim last week's his tory of theiteperial republic. The subject was considered argot session on the tit inst. M. Mes nerd .presided: The Paris Steele states, that Pierre. Bonaparte, the' cousin of Loots Napoleon has reused to accept the post of Consul at Charleston, with 15:6011 frame a year which halt been offered - to him. Poor as Pi erre Bonaparte is, it was not probable that he would accept so mean a post.Prisms' Pierre, expected to be a senator. with the it1:000. franca a year that the President of the republic has the power oft:rant ing, or at least a councillor of state, aoh 25.000 francs a sear; and it has excited some surprise that he is neither one nor the other ;. for. al hough' he was a member of the Mou n tain, its the National Assembly he was never in open hostility to his cousin. the President. - The most important intelligence by the Arctic is that of the death of Prince Soh warzenberg: The prime minister of Austria and of European reaction died at Vienna nn the afternoon of Mondry, the 511 of April. just one fortnight ago to-day. The Lou. don hate sof the 7th April contains a Icing Ili tee at this event, cotwltiditig with isimethitig like an ex piession of satiated that its farmer favorite had ceased to live acd to ride. In tact the public soli timent of ll was becoming aroused by the ex • igetutieit at this minister, and the T unes . a lready piepared to abandon him, gives to hum now a part ing kink. Prince Schwarzenberg was the oldest brother of Prince Charles, who, in 1814 • was the Commander iis-chiel of the allied armies when in France. Jo seph was bolo in 1769 and succeeded his father in 1789. It was his wife who perished in July, 1810 by fire, at the enteitainmeni given in honor of the nuptials of Napoleon and Maria Louisa. This sail event deprived him of his reason for a consideta. ble time In 1826 'e refused the offer of the Goy. emir/ship of the National Austrian Batik, but accep• ted that of Director In October of that year he, was sent to Munich on. a matrimonial mission for the Emperor and hits conimued. from that time until the.present. to be in various public employments of a high grade. He has been Lientenan• Field Marshall of the Austrian Empire. minister Plenipotentiary to Turin and also hi Naples which latter past of Pilule Min ister, which he held at the time of his death. is difficult us say what turn may be given to the direction of affairs in Austria. The mother of the Emperor, the Archdnchesa Sophia--cold, dictive. superstitions—is. in tact, the sovereign of Austria, but her wi-I was (greed. to yi>l.l to that of S—. It isnot improbable that a moister of 'ems energy would giie way to het caprices. the effect of wh , ch would be to. precipitate the course of evens and bring about, at an earlier day the change which is inevitable. M. Emile de Oirartlin, who was allowed to re min to Paris (Mt private btririP,s) has resumed the chief editorship of La Preue. A fter shown,•_ the difficulties to be enraroutered by a jormiatim„ h e nevertheless concludes that he may without danger enter on his renewed enterprise ; for as+ conspira cy con'', only serve the purposes of a monarchical restoration. to which hit is oppmed, he will faith folly serve a Republic that, resting on the basis of Universal aufbage must lead to tonne liberty —The Duchess of Milittpirciler is reported to be attriin in an " interesting" situation. She is en route to Ehgland with . her husband, on a vial; to Claymont —Sir Edward BulwerT,ytton has declined to be pin in nomination for Pailiament for the city of Lincoln. but Sir Hen y Buliker has consented to Nand are requisition as nomemnsly signed as that presen ed to his brother were obtained. The hearts at both whirl and tory parties - are working_ in his favor. 01Sir Henry Balitsr's present political Sen. timents comparatively nothing is known, bin the parties canvassing for signatures to his requisition represent him as being mach changed in opinion since he reptesented the liberal constituencies of Marylebone and Coventry... • Lnowcrnvc-exPonStom —The engine No. • 100, on the-Erie Railroad, collapsed a flue on Tuesday evening, near %ester. instantly killing the fireman, and-nearly if not 'fatidlyscalding the enginernan Theengine wait nearly new, and was consithired 'one of the-best on the road The explegiee was probably caws!, by she neglect of the eigineman, adowing the water to gel too low in - the boiler. No paasenglranr any persons except those on the engine, were injured. The train was detained till another engine could be procured and the disabled engine-removed front the track. Division or Cauroaris —The El ponulo t brings the intelligence thit the bill providing for a Con vention io revise the Constitutinn of California grill probably invome`a law. It only needs the sanction of the Senate. in which it is now pending fin un disguised is the scheme for introducing PlilVety, that it is now ajvncated upon thafgromtd, and the, qt. position in it is almost wholly based upon a Convention will offer the 'slave owners thet,opPrigunity ihey,so much desire of erecting, a new Stale of .sgothernealifornia, without , the aro visit of Frisedoni contained in the present State Con , slim lien. (ltid A newspaper palsied throo2h , the POrthunl futaktflire,' recently 41i/etled to Mr He. bron. Me, with the following heonio antiOnnee. meta written upon the beck, "No liquor in ibis 1• 01 4 11) ! - *;1,1. , . Tr Accrimondept us writes th of.CorpckChrisii, atia - s -. .' -, i • . - V . '.l i',.l ,', :4). lil, ihr - leol last teght of oar yown)olCorpas. II ; - it . tr . isi lvhsclideitiiives more than d. platis - 4.notrie. ii Akin reclifee(atit the tenttezvouttirtfflie. TOY; =. • r et s ilkis•ifinnt, tk*to seized upon'lpiontliVlerilesin itherMhent „ea apretext for a denlaratina oilier. Theritifna altis - iiirtificaiimis are visible eboitto e'mile belcier the town. To form same conception of tbelpp.,e,orattpeßfAuryleee,,y9e.tlter 4 ....imnip.f. it - i;fittrittfeilliii'ap if -grailiiiitaricinif to the herein' of 40 feel dud describing a segment .of a circle. This bluff jars against the waters of the bay at each 1 extremity, continuing in lc:tight the distance of tour 'mites and.cotnidelerrerfinfrifilbr, the town, which hoe °paw" level plain beneath. . •:- 1 MierHieloctition lin it town was nevere seen iionhal south. This . bluff is lined froni,one extreme :bilTiriltiftiii'irlitt iiiiiii . riiiiir&ein ' Minis - lens; boil,. in modern arttitecitirel'etyle... In the rear of the bind is .the Mexican towni• containing about, one thousand.inhabitania. IA theAmer/min portion the buildings are mainly' fitime, and • two replies in height, thhtigh an occasionalbrict • is w fie obifervd otl. , If we take in consideration the "conetans,ses breeze that fans the cheeks of .our good' denitmis, the seaboard luxuries of oysters and fish. (red in abundance.) the immewe qnatitities of will fowl. the propinquity meanie of every description and Me certainty of Pliio) Meld _Ol health, it would We difficult to imagine a place more desirable fin • reit; idein'et: Paradise is the (ay. place I would ex thaogefor it 'and somedines f imagine"! 'Manta r.- quire something to complete - and eqtializit the bar gain. The Aniericamstie Of the lawn. ii` c4mParn tiveirof the recent date. In 1839, a poor yolitur man friiiiille.a and alone, crossed the Nueces.4le KU enraptured with the site upon which now resist Corpus Christi. He became the Had white settler west ni the river. He eessolveil try acquire passes sion of this place Acquiring in •a• brief period a pe feet knowledge of the Spanish language. lie opened a petty trade vrilli his oniarthy neighbors. This • yam. now is now Col Kinney scarcely n r . [rived at the meridian of life, the ov net of theta hill stocked ranchos, the proprietor of almost die entire valley that lies between the river of Nueesio and the Rio Grande, the projector and principal owner of the towns of Nueites and Carpus Christi— in fine, the originator of the great Corpus Christi fair. The distinguishing trait. in Mr. ,Kinney's character in his indomitable energy: He has al ready excavated a commodious channel through an opposing bar at the mouth of the bay' He is now pinking at en immense expense, an Artesian well in the heart of the town, anti he has already completed every arrangement for the most ere's sive fair ever held in the United States. It has been aseertainett the more than ten thaosam! persons will visit this family. The indefatigable mama sie has received information from Ilia Mexican em issaries that large umbels from Mexico will be present, and among them two celebrated compan ies of bull fighters, with their trained brutes • It has been ascertainero preparations are making •in nearly all the southern and many- of the mitldte States, to bring h'ther stock of various inuts, in or• der to bring them in competition with the produc tions of Texas. A circus is already on the gmon :l with most excellent equestrian talent. You may rest assured that our same Corpus Christi fair will well repay a visit even from your northern sec tion: • At . TAL'e of EITRANIDINARY SUFTIMAING, WANT AND DICATN.—The Fredericksburg, (Vtli .) News narrates the following extrantainsity incideitio in ttlP lite of a man named Watmini who, some !Oren years s?,o, telt Alexandria. settled KM_ Ueune county as a merchant. married a highly tesperoa We young lady; by whom he hart irnirrhitilren, and subasquetilly beearne a widower and a bankrupt : " With his little children, mit, of whom were daughters, he lived on a small farm which ne rent• ed. ihtee miles below die hoe separating S affonl and Kittg.Gentge. Daring the coldest of the wrath er iii the latter part of December Wei. his Cillillfoll were seized with whooping comet: atoll every one of them !Niger:vet!. Whilst :111U+ confined , hbir father was-Mum with erysipelas, .and in the 'Ante mom lay the lather and ehildien. perfectly her/rte.( Whilst Mee confined, wane fiends broke er rite meat and fowl house and stole every kiwi and piece of meat on the farm. to doing so they Dittoed through the garden, levelling the fence and there by permitting the cattle and hogs to destroy all the vegetables intended for winter we The only :tong leh for the support of that family was a sweatier:to thy of cum meal and some nrimaSted coffee. In that r coollitiots they lay a large 'ammo of the lime without 'Ritter, without fire and without "1C poor widow in toe neighborhood sent them a small piece of meat, and the oldest boy, not quite so ill as the rest, did. as long as his strength world enable , him, crawl to the floe lilac., stir nit the rly hut embers, half cook some Weal'. fly a piece of meat, and wi h coffee without milk o r sugar. at tempt to relieve the hunger of his ding lather and rosters 0.1 one occasion weak and feeble a- he was, he staggered" through the snow to a neigh bor's !intim to prrxttire fire. At one time the (aquit and children would be crying fur water- IMO not a drop in the house and tin one tm brtig it Thus they lay for several days, until Gal. in his mercy, took two of the children. Two days did they lay corps'. es by the side of their sick parent, and no one to prepare them for sepulture and convey them to the tomb A man acculeiltally pas-mg by. called in. forintl the family as Ne have drscrawil them, the lather Wind mid irownsible, with his two dead apt. dean—one from' to death—lying by ht+ tide. and left them in that contli - ion. Two days after this the lather riled. The night preceeding his death lie hail hemorrhage and bled rimst pmlusely. fly his side were his son and his daughter barely able to raise their heads, but nerved to the-occasion they sat by him the whole night alone, using every meant* an it infant minds could suggest in staunch. log the blood. A poor widow. the day of Watson's death, heard of it, came to his house, had him and histwo dead children buried, took the sick ones home with het, mused them, and has since restor ed them to health." The TICA PLANT IN SOUTH CAROLINA -DOWN Smith, of Grrettvill•, S. C., is extensively .eimaxeil in planting tea. alinnnas, snipes, etc., on a farm of 300 acres. He announces that he has just received from China a supply of berth tea nuts for plautin., and tea plants. Mr S. is very Pall. gains in the success of tea cnltore - in America. He says that the tea plant, when w.tl rooted and eared for seldom dies. A severe frost may nip the leaves and twigs of an unprotected yonng plant, but has no prejudicial effect upon the root, stem, and lon. gevity of the shrubs. Dr Smith is also engaued in cultivating the fig and almond The almond tree, he says, is naturally as hardy as a peach tree, , and as little , likely to perish. In raising it. (he says) ido not fear the frost. lam not aware that i ever lost an almond tree from that cause. The fig is a great liver, roots well,- and very seldom dies. .consider, it a most delicious fruit and have 200 plants, of all the best varieties I could collect in this part of the Union. The grape flourishes well in this district, and I have taken some pains In se cure a good variety for both die table and the bottle. I began to plant out my vineyard last year, and pun. pose continuing it next month. When tea cultiva tion doe.knot demand my attention, the grape and other fruits are my amusement—not my business I believe wine can be male here as cheaply as cider. Tne CAPITOL AGAIN op FIRR —A Fire broke out in the Deputy 'Clerk's Rome of the U. S. Bailment." Court at Weshington on Wednesday Monona, which ilestmyeJtatle k,.aintl the minutes of the lam term or, Court, togethet with other valuable pa pers . . - 1i was tortuontely talon .1$ to exile:Ai:4l it without much 'damage. The fiue hatrbsewasomtained m have wise?, ismit trnitton of a box of ntatchee left cariphosoly iw the At Phonon, on Satur!lay, ilia Gram/ )ocy rettnntil. levet' inilicierientot egninm Cfiiiui, H. Ftrlrry,rr, late receiving Teller of shit Soffit*. Balk, mg the tiods-brihat inlititutitrit, ammonia' in ill to ,129,148- I I. . 4 . if There is a fixed determination among a clas s . peopleiictiirdontia to introduce Slavery rut ,, owe atitill they cannot accomplish the, end, 4 7,_ : , 46ky l diet !tit in another. rustthey p ro p,„j" divole thei.slate, and allow slavery in Ms Onvisiori4rot that required too moth time, so ,; 1 donb,gut ol success; then therprop we d the olovolaw, which ileclapo all whove re4i T before they were broughi intri . rhe state, sor erk ,,t* the ferniatic,re_pLdittypttleittili_orp t .p,ltoulit k i rs q 4treliiiretiiitill; find - provide ample licilines.l47;: (lacing to slavery any likely-looking, neg r o „, i _ well-knit limbs mighrifinfil die. cupidi ty 4: li g ht -complexioned tteiahbor. This plan sho to have encountered unroreeeen obstacles, o ut inexhaustible ingenuity of famess, the IQ; ways take more trouble to aloud doir.a.o pia work than would be eTrettfa..7,l9 o ..hohi si rstot uither'444liii . - It is now propoiednistr ome - 6i made without the Malty fur tiro of labor within its !huffs. itml Id Mitt end toio been introduced into bOtb - tmetches of the isiZ ture. ,• • - Thectrill betorethe Assembly'prov des: Section tm, That all contracts made ie Chilieve dominums, or in any of the lslandroi Pact& ocean, tar v.e performance of o f Ronal service within the of this state, .4 1 7 1 obligatory . Section Wend 3 point out the ntannetel contiaini; "`• t • . thifitintracts for laboidyiii i , limiied in drilatiimm threersane. dating k ern to time of . arriyeJ in C.altforniai and - for the Nov of wages as.agreed upon, clothing, &c. Sec 5.11 gives the person committing to w ort release ►y case of ns isosage by the employ e ,. ' Sec. 6th provides for the ant +reeniern of tract. where persona rebid touribe. Sec. 7 1 1 1 psave t leslir WiinfaireVilof The &mai,' trilliliffent /roil that whidh it trip the Assembly in several pullet:46l,bn! p r i m in the first and thi•d sections • See. 14 an.horizeir that citizen' of the U n i t l Swells, willing in California may contract rot s citizen• or resident'. 01 any foreign country, f or .„,, ual tabor in be rendered in doe •tats, for a ye a; not to exceed 'en yearn. Section 31 authorize. the making o f mum within the limits of California. By the terms of this bill, une would infer %it was desistned merely to secure laborers Inn fla na and Eastern Asia. We have no Jout,t mat s mainly intended 10 overate upon the slates in Pa United States, who will be tempted for their di. mate teiteilom to contract for a service DI ten yea in California. , A slave would not probably fin there longer than that under any circumstance under the whip of an overseer, and d be dot, p I likely the fogitive slave bill would speedily woe him to his home in Alabama or South Cunha, an d t h a t would be the end of hisexpedition epee lsbeny —Eve. Past. Gangs of these despicable vampyres—men eta hang about onr Legislative hallo and sell ineit rod vices to the highest balder to procure the enamel or defeat col prowling measures-.still udbt then?, oil tend really appear mo increa,e to numbers. Tbet they are tolerated may seem onrpri-ing, but bin are they-or - tot grs rid oil Their very enemies tile 'tripod - cities and boid effrontery me their preta, m i om r , COI l uplioi. maid 'heir. business a or al Amcor/IL The mentbei of time Legislature tre.ris,dme , im itirh deserved rimoviAiiiipm and scoops hold a moment.. ClillVerodliOri'Velli . them, is a to be ar•soilerl with torrents of Rat.; Mionifaced for the rMrafiuu, in hiriomemble qoalitiries, °long degree of torpimile. They are dattaerbuy mph to treat) np-v t , but whirt.iver the haz-iril may Iv every humeri' mail will admit the necevity of do ma them from the cal toil Can tile 1.0-up , laluce adopt no rneanrlo drive do ff! I* drat txNly In be thus ititevted, enoupd, ,li-mraced torever without- a remedy 3 The dm. aster of the members is staked in the is mi e. e Over their fair fame or the borers must lit- St.ticely a measure is paeaed at detested whient not claimed by the borers as a triumph, sal man mince 'here In attend to a private bill of own, who lint beset by them with attempt, $ levy black mail upon him. When wiltihia reed rmcalo become extinct, if 'the LegiDlannedon Ds take the matter in hand T blnet they' be tolnee l'i)1 ever T We do not object to men ciis si ni g • iv the paaeage of ,tree-ore- in whin!' they are !hew •elves titteuftsted. By the term Legislative hos we mean muse who for a stipulated puce &Ova or opitme the passage of ntea>•ores in whit•h ifej have no honest interest, a ti who hire thengelat to any and every body to etipport or oppose r measure—who mane a bu•inees of, batwing Ilse the Legislature for the purpose of selling their as vices to the h4thest bidder. It is these emus are desire to Pie driv'en oft for the good of it Comn •veaph and for !fie protection of the pod Flannel' of our Legislators. We trust that some Li Irma! netiun will speedily be had to accompl* this desilable result —Keystlrne. AIRRUT 117 Two SOPPOPCID Mitteuratits.-111 min ii iii two yowl:: foreigners, supposed .ohelis eariaus or Poles. were arrested oil enppettal being the murderers of Adam Jifteph Sego German. whose mangled enipi.e mt. found pit culvert, under dm canal. about a mile urns Tim. inn, N J.. on Sunday last. Tne arrused wisp the c.a. of the way trail, about two mile , awe Tammy. A. soon as they were sees' by the em itneuir of the hoe, Mr Andrew Quit, in. be net rimed them from the description. a. the Awry , ' perpetrators of the intittlir. Mr. Qat!,tm trpte eye upon them, and took me necessary ettPot prevent their escape On the atrivalot &rinse John Sweetie, at Walnut street wharf, they tee taken in custody One of them strongly mum* the tlevicriptires given et John Kaiser, the Hard ► an, implicsied.with the ,Skuivroikis in the meg of young Lehman —Phil Balktia. 51 aw. GAIIIIOI CAPE—We learn by lelegaPh Washington, that the Supreme Court of the Goa Slates have refused a rehearing in Mrs Gat wido w of Gen Gaines. by a vote iit t to 2 la we suppose audit the rhapter Hail her clatmobt" sostained, she would have beau protfably the ea. Mies* person in the ettited States. There bimetal fimeli, during the progress ef the snit, 'Mai said She might have compromised for half amid of dellarsourna/cf Commerce. MADAME JENNY LIND GOLIPTHMIDT'S Cnacen —To thooe who share • vl enrhu,iaom fur hof Lind . as the greatest of vocal artiste, the ammo' ment 'of her Net concerto in America wilt tot ta* ter of real regret:' However charming nther-ate„ maybe, turner:an rival her unignA enperfarg , which t as with all genies, is not this Of VIM IR" of cultivation, but, a general imptersion. The, eerie will be three in number to take place In M I York on the 18th. 214 and 2.lth 01 May. " 1111'i rosemary, that's for remembetance " Tile *viols Externivtos.—Last Fr Jr, a steamer three hundred and thirty Sloral° at Si. Louis, all of Whom are fresh from Enthei. and Scotland. It is known ihat 'a ship is now ~ her way from Liverpool with three hundred ea aikty.nine mdre. They will reach the trutrier 0 lime to join the cakracaile matte up dittos" l b° have beers hying in lowa. and who are onlerni a proceed to 'the promised Tarot at Salt Lake NI sprint; When all are antler way they m 111 0441 formidable as marchirig armr SUIcIDE —Lomb W Sol oht. ot ion enmity. Pa ~eornmitn4lntrienle by- too din '`"lr Ire g.ret his. Anew, in rho pinite or eol Tilorttlay afiernoon Fos many yams the Wa*enigastell Lti mercantilepurs -Ti uits in Selattrr` : 111 . ,1 was much estee Pd tut a nsel'. Formi"l' 'l * -W ag German Ref m ormat Mini-ter soil 0 1 ; e pastor of R lame Congregation in that B , Srugh, -'PUNA fink act :01 Unknown. Mr about SOlitactold , and has left a wife BE4 11 °.' Mbitthores r ' iS Legislative Bores. ma
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