rem ggraOrinte eportgr. free 'Se% Free Speech, tree Men /Ow Pre* TOW: ory. E. 0. GOODRICH, Eorroct. Towanda, Saturday, lay 1, 185. VOIR CANAL ICOII,IIIIISTONVII. WM. SEARIGHT, of Fayette County. -Terris et The Reposyler. 03 50 per annum—if paid within the year 00 ciente Will beidedneted—for 'cash paid actually irt attune* •t 00 will be &ducted: No paperselWaVer ta/ff yeiten. entert paid fey. Arwrxruitainers, pet Cousin of ten' lbws. 50 cents for the lest and Micents for each iruhseqttent insertion. lir Office in the " Union Mock." north side of the Public equare,:nexidoor to the Bradford Hotel. Entrance between Messrs. Adams' and ElwelPs law races. Death of Judge Coulter. Hon. ',ammo COI7I.ItER, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died on Thursday night, 20th inst., very suddenly, of disease of the heart, at his residence in. Greensburg, Pa. Judge Coulter wad a socnd and conscientious jurist, and a popular and influential man. He owed his first appointtnent to the Supreme bench to the late Gov. Shut*, who had,great faith in his abilities. Per. haps no better evidence ol his popularirty cotild be adduced than his. election to the. Supreme Judge, ship, last tall, w hetevery other man on the Whig Stare ticket was de ted: . His death will be la. mented by men of all artier. . A new Judge will elected next fall, and until that time the Goverior appoints one to fill the va cancy. The Governor, we nederstand, tendered the Ap pointment to Hon. G. W. Woonwsan, by whom it declined—and it wag - then offered to Hon. T. 8 B Ku, who accepts. These days are somewhat celebrated for the multitude of publications, intended to keep the public enlightened—letters defining the positron of men whom the people care nothinglor ; and certi ficates bols•ering op, and endorsing the amazing popularity of Presidential aspirants. ft is but a short time since, that a portion of the Pennsylvania delegation in Congress felt it incumbent upon them to issue a certificate of Mr. BUCHANAN'S strength at home—a falsehood so plain and, well undevstrxid, that it makes the endorsement ithout value, and 6,1 w-irking. It was, in fact, an aftempt to conceal the truth that Mr. Bucturraes nomination would be less etithusiastically responded to than that of any otheleandidate named. The latest movement we have hear.l of, is that Da Seim Ssussuav is getting.up an endorsement of Mr. WARD'S appointment as Delegate to Bahl more, and vouching for his ancient and consistent Democracy. Such, we hear, is the case; and from the Doctor's well-known indefatigability and Skill in such matters, we have no doubt he will be able to make such a demonstration as will satisfy the public that Mr. WARD has always been a goad Democrat, despite their own recollections, and the history of the past. MAP or TZWANDA.—Mr.NunPre is now engaged in procuring subscribers for a map at our borough. Ike has with him specimen maps of some of the neighboring villages, which present a fine appear- ance. The proposed map will be lithograped, of large size; will contain all the streets of the bow', wilt the lots accurately marked out, and the names of property hollers; and will be embellished with faiihlul views of the public buildings, and some of the best private residences in the place. We trust our citizens will have enterprise and liberality enough to subscribe the required number of copies. Tne Luzziore CONGRESSIONAL Dtsvaicr.—The Committee on Elections in the House, on Thursday, in the case of Col. flesmoce B. Warner, contest ing the seat of HENRY M. FULLER, as Representa tive in Congress . from the Luzerne District, Penn sylvania, reported a resilution declating Mr. Fut.- Lea's seat vacant, on die ground that the election was illegal, and asking a new election. The mat ter was passed by informally, bat well be called up n a day or two for final disposition. LANCASTER COVNTT LIQUOR Law.—k bin has passed ►he Legislatthe, and received the Governor's signature, prohibiting the eale of any quantity what. ever of spirituous, vinous or malt liquor in Lancas- ter county on the sabbath, under a penalty .of 820 for eachoffence-1110,to ao to the informer, who is made a 'competent witness in the case. The law takes died immediately. Tlticawzrort's Maoaznra.—The• Reprint of the April number of Blackwood is received. Its table of contents are as follows: • I. The Earl of Derby. [XX. 11., My Novel, or varieties of English Life, Part 111. American Military Recognizance,. IV. Our Loriann*Commission. V. The Comdercial Disaster of 1851.. VI. The Mother, Legacy. Yll. The Appeal to the Country. Mears Leonard Scott fir. Co. Publishers, No. 70 Talton St. New York. 1/tr- The death of THOUS Bonim, Esq., (says the Lycotwing Gazdte,) has been. chroracled with many expressions of regret, in eviety part of the State where he was known. Re was amen , whose untiring energy, remarkable business cape% and Merlin 1 toleirity of character, won from all' his ac. quaintance,4 and friend's the highest meed of esteem *bile living, and in his death the moot unaffected ponolr. Dr.srrr or Ex. Gov. Youna.—The Ron. John Yonng, itssistant Treasurer of the United States at the city of New York, formerly Governor of the State, Member of Congress', gm., died, of con/lump , tion, at his residence in New York, on Friday morning, April 23.1, in the 50th year of his age; We We requested 10 state that there will he tv meeting , of the Bradford County Medical Society Id the Ward. Hoes*, on Thursday,- May 6th, at one o'clock, P.M. LEATHEII ISSPECTOR....W. kit Alsonacona, hes received his Commission tut Inspector of Loathes for the city an I county of Philadelphia, from Gov. litat.ta ; and has appointed Aieagw Neste, of the Northern Lihetties, arta WzninAazi - of theeity r bio. der aie•. ",,- ; •:.-. 1 L , vetwiselOnte . :ticiOur.Aitsuir::-. = • 11111011011=0 ' lb tie &tate and ileum, of RefreseutO* if Ike CommerwealtiOl'emeteanut Cairetaxamo—Bill NU; 590;eis tbe fle et flue Sen ate, entitled " An let 6'r:incorporate the Meadville Bank," with a atpital 00100,000, has been *tient ed fir my eoasidtratituf.' together with others.provi ding for the establishment sundry new Banks. to be located as follows, viz :--One at Pittsburg. with a capital of $300,000 t s another at Allentown; Lehigh couaty,'Witirteapital of $140,000 ; another at Car hsle, with a capital of $100,000; another at New Castle, Lawrence county, with a - capital of $lOO,OOO another atTeMaqua, Schuylkill county, with a cap ital of 0ff300,000 ; another at Mauch Chunk, Car bon county, with a capital of $100,000; another at Plicultrille, Chestercounty. with 'capital ofilso o ,- 000 p mother at Monongahela City. Washington county, with a capital of $lOO.OOO t alto another to add $150,000 to the capital stock of the Southwark Bank in the county of Philadelphia. Sines tie General Assembly has thus Indicated to me their . v i ews ' on the subject of increasing the Banking Capital of the Statej have given the gusta tion, hi , edits bfarffir my most anxious consider"- non--have eontemp aied the probable effects of this proposed measure upon the interests of the whole people of the . Stalo—upon the laborer, mechanic, farmer; merchant and manufacturer, and bringing to the aid of my- judgment the ligtefornished thy the past experience of the country, I have arrived at the conclusiow that it is my solemn duty, however unplearant,nr differ with you on 'this subject. To dissent'frorts the dishes of the representatives of the peopleoan a flirtation of public policy, is painful to me to the extreme, but to shrink front the responsi. bility of- performing a conscious duty, would be coward(' and criminalt, In reinvning so finite a tilrmber of the Bank Bills without my sanction, for the re-consideration of the Genevgl Assentbly, I deem it right that I should present my reasons for so doing, at length, in one message and have reference to this as applicable to these measures severalty. On assuming the duties of the gtedtaire Office, I distinctly announced, that in my opinion, no pretext can justify the crea'ionof a superabundant amount of paper money ; and that it was with painftilalarm I have witnessed a growing d;spOsititeri it/ the en tire country to increase the use of this medium on a small specie basis. regardless of the inevitable ef fects of the large accessions of coin which Califor nia is furnishing to this country and to the world. Every people sho , tld have a circulating medium as i matter of convenience, and should have whatev er amount the transaction of wholesome business affairs may demand; but, unfortunately, we are too unwilling to stop it the proper point iv the crea tion of this medium. Thai as coin becomes abund ant, it should supplant and render unnecessary the use of paper, is to my mind the plainest teaching of common sense. Such practical effect is demanded by the true interests of the people. The sentiments thus announced I have long en tertained and their correctness is the more confirm ed by every day's experience and reflection. I should, by assenting to these bills, agree practical ly to reverse this doctrine, and maintain, that as coin becomes abundant, the paper medium should be increased. This position would be so manifest ly unsound that argument is not necessary to refute it. .. The proposed new Banks would add to the pres ent banking capital of tha State an aggregate sum of about $1,550,000, or over ten per cent on the ac tive capital now in use, and thus swell the present amount of our paper circulation to the extent of four or five millions. Whilst lam not prepared to say, that at a proper time a Bank might not be use ful, if properly managed, at some of the points nam ed, I have had no difficulty whatever in satisfying my mind that there is at this time no real necessity for such au extensive increase of paper money, nor if such increase were permitted, the effect would be prejudical to the true interests of the mass of the people and that it would exercise ademoralizing in fluence upon the business affairs of the State. The immediate effect would be, I have no doubt, to en hance the nominal prices of all kinds of goods and property by the depreciation of bank paper, stimula ting thereby a spirit of wild and fanciful specula tion, begetting prodigality and idleness, the legiti mate fruits of an inflated currency. All violent movements on this subject are unwise, and especi ally injurious to the unwary citizen. Experience has demonstrates that all sodden expansions and contractions of a paper currency, exercise a preju dice) influence on the real prosperity of the coun try. Such sudden convulsions, it is true, are some timeEturned to the advantage ofthe shrewd capital ist, bit the unsuspecting farmer or mechanic, enticed from his safe pursuit by the bit promises of the expitiaioo, is crushed in his new experiment by the "Pence of the contraction. If'Om true, that " experience teaches wisdom," and he will doubt this, the people of Pennsylvania *bon t ) be wise vu this subject, and a mere reference to that experience, it seems to me, should be suffi cient to awaken them to the danger of the measure in question. The consequences of a similar policy adopted in 1814, regardless ofthe admonitions of the sagacious and patriotic Snyder, are still remembered by some who participated in the scenes ordinals days and are known to all of us as a dark page in the history of oar State. Let no man flatter himself with the be. lief, that the same cause will not produce the same effect in the future that it has done in the part. The country it is true, is now inhabited by a new gene. ration, but the nature of man hai undergone no change since the days of Snyder—his impulses and objects are these= and the laws of trade remain unaltered ; and assuredly if we rush into the errors of that day, we may justly anticipate a similar re tribution. Nor is this the only praetical demon stration of the danger of the proposed policy to be found in our history. Who does not remember something of the condition of affairs, that existed through the whole eaten' of our vastcountry during the years 1884. 'B5, and 'B6l Who has forgotten the warning voice of the patriotic Jackson, admon ishing the people against the consequences of an in• dated currency, and an unrestraised system of cred it, which iiten pervaded ail business circles, and af fected deeply all domestic arrangements I But his warning was not heeded until it was too late to ar rest the evil. The great Bank expansion of that pe riod, engendered a spirit of desperate speculation, and habits of prodigality, which distinguished alike the career of States.eorporations, and individuals. And who can contemplate without regret and shame the disgrace and misery which followed as the le gitimate consequences I The imaginary fortunes of individuals were dispelled as fog before the riV ing sun, and the meshes of the speculator Were rent asunder as cobwebs before the torrent of revulsion that ensued. States, corporations, and individuals were prostrated beneath its weight—their plighted faith became a by word and scoff; and their _credit was hawked about in the market and offered for a mere fraction of its nominal value, whilst the unwa ry citizen, who bad been misled by this artificial state of Whirs, including widpws and orphans, whose means under the force at the delusion bad been in vested in schemes purely speculative, found theta selves thrown bonseless upon the charity crib* pub. lie. Nor is this all. The effect of emending the banking capitaf of this State in 1836, by the chart er ofthe United States and other Banks, from a lit tle over fbarteen ns exceeding filly-eight millions, and its sudden reduction in a few years afterwards to an active capital of leaf than thirteen millions, was scarcely less dissaftode. The consequences to our State credits to the trade and commerce . of our metropolis—to the interests of all classes of our people,and to the honor of the Commonwealth abroad are topics too unpleasant to be discussed at this day, and I only allude to them. as so many ad; .asonitionragainst the tendency of the effort now making to increase the amount of banking capital. evidently calculated to produce a somewhat similar state of ears: These expansions are &elusive and unprofitable, and as shown by their past Ifistory clearly inimical to the rights and interests of labor. ?row sa abia report made to emigres' on this subject in 1840. 1 have gathen4some very interrestiag facts which speak a hingwage that cannot be misunderstood.— They are to the effect. that from 1834 to 1899 the .increase of paper currency in the United States wax near 48 per eent--that the edvantle in tbeprice 'of that kind of real estate which was constantly in the Andrei. vas over one hundred per cent-.4n stocks real lad ithoep„about one hundred and men. I per cent—in Soar, pork. corn, die., Om sixty theirifee_aUbibincr;the4inirOdof all real wealth, but a Attlestiver sixteen per cent.— But not so when the' contraction Conies; for' then la-, bor bears ,the first aback, and depreciates most so la every view, thereforkie a fluctuating currency prejudicel to the interests of the laborer:— Labor is Molest thing to rise in pries, and does so least with inflation of the currency butaufferifirst and most severely under the contradtion. Besides; during the times of such inflation the laborer is forced to receive his wages at the standard price of a sound currency in that which is depreciated, and purchase his necessaries at the high prices crise. quest upon such depression. Such expansions, in addition, are adverse to the real prosperity of the country and retard rather than advance it. The ar tificial growth produced by the expansion, is more than counteracted by the paralizing influence of the contraction ; and the aggregate prosperity istess than it would be were the country left to its steady natural advance. But how clearly impoverishing is the effect of an inflated currency upon all our State and National interests, now closely pressed by foreign competi tion. It virtually opens our ports to invite such rivalry against all these pursuits and no rate of Tariff that the wisdom of Congress can devise. within reasonable limit can counteract its influence it greatly enhances the nominal pricesof goods and commodities in this. above what they will bear in other countries, whilst at the same time it retards rather than facilitates their production. It thus gives the foreign producer the opportunity of manufact uring at the low rates of his own country, and Fell ing at the inflated prices of ours ; for he receives his pay not in our own depreciated paper, but in gold and silver. • It is the state of the currency, more thanany other feature in the policy of this couvry - that enables the foreign manufacturer to compete, if not undersell the American producer in our own market. Mt where is the evidence that so large an increas of the banking capital is required 1 And why au thorize such an increase all 'at cue time 1 During the official service of my last two predecessors, covering.a period of nine years, but four new Banks of issue were created ; and when has Pennsylvania been more prosperous than during that time 1 when since first burthened by her heavy debt, did her credit stand higher 1 And when did the labor of her citizens reap a better reward I dhe has, dur ing the whole time, stood erect—maintained her faith--and by the proper exercise of her own inhe rent elements of wealth has been steadily extrica ting herself from the embarrassments brought upon litr by • spirit of prodigality, transfused throughout the whole country, as the consequence of the expan sions of paper money, to which I have already re ferred:• There are no* nearly nineteen millions of Bank ing Capital in the State, of which about four and a half millions of dollars are invested in Stocks, Bonds, &c., a business not necessarily connected with banking nor contemplated in the creation of Banks. This fact furnishes some evidence, that at times, there had been more Banking Capital than the legitimate business of these institutions seemed to require, and certainly there is nothing in the present condition of the country to justify so large an accession to our paper medium. The present period is one distinguished for the great abundance of coin. The mines of California and Australia have recently been contributing to swell inordinately the usual supply which other parts of the world still continue unabatedly to furn ish. Money is unusually plenty in this country, and has not been. so much so, nor so cheap in Europe, for many years. The bank of England now con tains the enormous sum of near ninety millions of gold and silver, whilst in France and Holland there is an evident excess above the demands of business In the United States we have a full supply, which is now being rapidly augmented by new receipts. These receipts, as I learn from reliable though un official sources by importation and coinage for the months of January, February and March, amount ed to over thirteen millions and a half, leaving in the country after deducting all exports of specie for the same period, a ballance of near seven mil lions of dollars. This ratio of increase would soon double and treble the whole capital of the country. And it is worthy of remark, that this great increase of gold coinage is beginning to awaken the inquir ing, as to what is to be the effect upon this great standard of value as compared with other coins for circulating mediums. The effect of this superabundance of money on the business affairs of the country is already being made manifest ? The signs of the times, it seems to me, indicate very clearly that - we are approaching a period of more than natural prosperity, resulting from the excess of money. The mania which pre vails for all kinds of business and projects of im provements which require the investment of large sums of money, is the evidence of such tendency in our monetary affairs. If, then, we are to take counsel from the past and the indications of the present we must believe that this abundance of currency will of itself produce an inflation ofpri ces and lead to speculations and prodigality. But such artificial prosperity will be of short duration. The reaction will as certainly come as that the sun will rise in the East, and set in the West ; and unfortunately when it does come, the innocent and unwary who have made least in this game are fore ei to suffer most. Is it wise, then, in full viewlif such unmistakable indications, to hasten this state of affair's - and aggravate the evil by an improvident increase of paper money ? Shall we so far forget the revere lessons which have been heretofore in flicted upon this noble State ? I trnst not. Ido not say that It may not be proper at some future time to charter the new banks at some of the points in the State where it is now proposed to locate them ; but I most sincerely believe, and I express the belief with the almost deference to the views of the Gen eral Assembly that the present is not a propitious period for an increase of Banking capital. Let us first see what is to be the effect of the increase 'of gold coinage and the abundance of money -ba ,, which I have already alluded. It is prudent at least, to re main on the safe side of the questioni There is no danger of the real prosperity of the State r ` being re larded for the want of paper money, and I have nev er known the people to suffer from such cause. Our currency is now as sound as at any other period in the histoky of the Commonwealth and her prosper perity and growth resulting from the energy, indus try and enterprise of her people, equal to that only of her sister States. Artificial means too improve this condition might readily produce the reverse result: I think the aggregate banking capital of the state large enough and that of the whole country to large —much too large for the welfare of those pursuits closely pressed by foreign competition. Bat the great monetary movement which, at this time would seem wise and necessary, is not within the control of a single State. I have no hesitation in saying, thatl should not during my official career, sanction the charter of re-charter of any bat,k. It should be my purpose to reduce rather than increase the paper circulation. But a single member of this confederacy can do but little more than show good example and invite imitation on the part of sister States. Situated, as we are. therefore, we can only make the best of the circumstances which cur round us—restrain the evil and promote the good so far as the influence of the:gate can do this. I have not been insensible , to the fact of reason ing in favorof establishing Banks in particular lo calities, as a medium through which to conduct heavy busioes transactions and I should not object to institutions for this purpose with all the attributes of a Bank, except the right to create paper money. It is urged also, that certain localities need what are called banking facihies, that are now 'without such accommodations, and that some or all of those bills are only intended to afford to such places that which has been already extended to others. I am free to admit, that there are localities thus situated, and' that it is intended by the bills in question to supply some of these, and were it practicable to af. ford to them these facilties without increasing the present amount of paper money; or, in other words if this end' could be accomplished by taking from localities that now manifestly have too much, the evils of an increase of Banking Capital which I have suggested could not apply. But it cannot to my mind be justified that any inconvenience, suffer ' ed by certain localities, should be regarded as par amount to the important considerations that seem• clearly, at this time, to weigh against any increase of the paper medium of the State. This complaint may be gradually set at the rest hereafter, should the considerations against an increase of capital continue by refusing to re•eharter Banks in Walt fie* where there is an excess of such fadilties, and tdiiiiiiiiitribet/iitratfirilaV4-&iielinilifige We' utmosteare will be.necepsw forme theft learn .,e3 by sad.experienee_that Itts a dangerous policy to titate these institutions In kiegion of country great deficient in capital,' I need not call to mind ; the trintileinna Vank in,stautee iti-whicit,Banks thuS to ha-ve mialed the . business co mmunity by their !promises to pay without a dollar in their. ra ( rits, and then exploded to, the trait injury DI the pe ple. .•- They are so many arguments to sustain the truth fatness of this position,,and nothing but my unwil lingness to excite unpleasaut recollections restrains -me from pointing out the particularsof some oftbese ocsurrences. Bat I trust they may not, on that ac countericape your reflection. A bank. created for the use, only of ikore who desires to become borrow ers will not answer. The mere corporate franchi ses cannot give it all the elements oil a good Bank —the patrons of such an institution must put mon ey into its vaults before they can drew any out. another language if a particular loCality be poor, it willnot be made rich by the possession of a bank possessing no better qualities than the'right to make paper money. There must be not only a necessity for such an institution but legitimate tbosiness and Wealth in such locality to sustain it. o the probabil. ities are that the result will be disastrous. It is not always a good argument in favor of locating a bank at a given point, to say, that it is difficult to get money at Inch places. That may be the very reason why piablic interest and safety would forbid such location. Besides, it is to this difficulty, to a great extent, that this community is indebted &rite value. lam quite sure that if It were made suffi ciently abundant to answer the views of some po litical economists, it would neither be valuable or ureful. The advantages resulting to the particular localities in which these institutions are found, are, as a general principle, greatly overrated. I can bring to review in my mind a vast district of this State,embracing some eighteen contiguous counties all flourishing and prosperous, in which there is not to be found a single bank of issue, and yet Ido not gee that these are less prosperous than counties fa vored with many banks. A number of the counties within the range to which I refer, were at one time 'favored with banks but these institutions have failed and gone out of existence; and I cannot perceive that such counties are less flourishing than they were when their respective banks were in full oper ation. This seclusion from banks it should be re membered. is not without its advantages. The people of such regions are, perhaps fully rewarded for what they suffer in inconvenience by the pro, tection they thus enjoy from the force of commer cial revulsions. What they loose at the time of a bank expansion is more than made good to them by their escape from the full force of the contraction. A little reflection on _the occurrences'during the pe riods to which I have repeatedly made reference, will satisfy any one, that this is no mere fanciful idea, but a clear practical truth. I have thus, gentlemen, performed what I regar ded as an imperative duty. If I have erred, it is an ' error from the head, and not of the heart. WILLIAM BIGLER. ErscuTrvE Crum ssu, Harrisburg. April 20th, 1852 PRMATURE BVRIAL —The Albany Regi)ter, in he coarse of an crude on this subject, relates the trillowini , instance, oh which the. ednor was perfectly cognizant: Some years ago we were perfectly cognant to an occurence of this kind, which was of the most heart rending character. The wife of a gentleman was taken suddenly ill in church, and was carried to her home in a state of syncope. In a few hours she partially recovered, but immediately relapsed, anti never again showed any signs of consciousness. She lay in this condition' nearly two days, baffling the skull cf the physicians. and then, as it was thought, and as there was almost every reason to believe died. No signs of breathing could be de. tested, the limbs became rigid and cold. and the eyes remained open with a tired and glassy stare of death; but there was no change in the color of skin. This was the only reason in the world for supposing that dissolution had not taken place. The poor bereaved husband, almost frantic at the loss at a young and beautiful wife, whom he almost idol ized, clung with desperation end hope limned in her lace, and long resisted the unanimous decision of the physicians that she was certainly dead. They told him, what was douttless true. that it some.. timer thought very rarely happens that there is no discoloration for days and even weeks afer dissolu tion has taken place. Still he resisted, and it was not until three days had passed without the faintest signal of change or sign of life, fist he finally gave up and suffered the burial to take place. She was entombed in a vault. Months passed. A cemetery having been laid out, the husband purchased a beau- Vol lot, erected an elegant monument in it, and when all was ready, superintended the removal of the body of his wife from the vault to its final rest log place. When the vault was opened he remem bered the circumstances of her death, above detail ed and a desire suddenly seized him to once more behold the corpse. By his direction the coffin lid was removed. The spectacle which presented it self was inconceivable horrible, for it showed that she had been buried alive. She had turned quite over on her side, she had clutched her nails into the coffin until her fingers had bled, portions of her grave clothes were torn, and in her horrible struggles she had contrived to carryher hand to tier head, an I had plucked from it a mass of hair, with portions the cap that covered it ! The poor man never recovered from the shock of that awful spectable. He was born away senseless, and for the rest of his life was an tine& broken beaned and miserable being. " L'QUON IN TRANSITIJ."=-One day last week several casks of liquor came from Boston in'one of the steamers marked "Gorham. N. H." On their arrival at the wharf, and when they were about to be transferred to the cars for the place of ilestina. lion, they were claimed by some individuals in this city. The agents who had them to charge re fused to deliver them here, as they felt bound to put "them through? according to the directions, and placed them upon the freight train with this object iii view. The real owners thus being foiled in their attempt to get possession of their liquor here, selected an agent to follow it to "'Gotham, N. H ," where it was secured and bronght back to the city on return. ft was no sooner landed here, however, than our new vigilant police seized the same and hail it carted to the government house, where more of the same soil had been deposited in days past. By this operation the Railroad realized the sum of $5OO as freight money, together with the tare of the agent who followed it, and the city authorities. the worth of the liquor, whatever it may he—a handsome business transaction all around !—Port land Adv. mil' The Newark Daily says, a serious disturbance took place on Saturday evening about dusk, at the German Catholic Church in William-st. near High. It is somewhat difficult to ascertain the precise facts, but it is understood that the German Catholic priest has uttered language against Kossnth, personally, .both in publie discourses and private conversations. This incensed many, pf Kossuth's Protestant friends, and a large crowd, numeialeilabout WO, composed chiefly of Germans. collected from various parts of the city and gathered around the church in Shipman st. with violent and enraged language A. iew stone were thrown, which shattered one of the Anvers in the priest's dwelling, which is attatchedio the rear of the church. The priest becoming alarmed rang the church bell, which raised the alarm of fire, and the crowd finally dispersed. Small parties, tt is said, have since been in the vicinity of the church, kindly expressing their anger. The Minnesota Pioneer gives an =taunt of a man named John Stean, who was recently found dead on his feet, near St. Paul's. He was an EngHA man,iretween 60 and 7) years of age ; had served throughout the Mexican war, and had, last fall, built himself t< cabin in the woods, and shut him. self up to winter. Hie neighbors not having seen him for some time, two of them went to his cabin, which they found locked, and on opening it, Stean was discovered standing at the , loot of his bed, dead, and frozen solid. He had on seven pair of pantaloons, and in a belt about hoi waist 5270 in gold_ He bad evidently been dead some weeks. at Oftentimes the struggle between the two political Piniea:of thii country has been. one of consulerstile dignity rind signifiCance prihciples`of importance have been at issuer great questions' of finance, of keit! policy, of theiproper sphere of legislation:At present, the. members of Congress are Making a wretched ramble of it. Any American who shouldhave been at a distance froth his country for four or five years past, without the opportunity of reading; the, Amer can journals, would nut now be able for his life to distinguish by their votes the demeeratie members from the sr pigs Once we had a question of itdernat fm prenrements in debate between the two' parlies---a question on which depended important interests; we had the question of a national bank, a still more exciting topic, effecting the whole course of the money mark et.; we had the question of the tariff, involving the fate of manufacturing enterprises at home and com mercial enterprises abroad ; we had the question of the independent treasury, equal in moment to that of the United States Bank These topics of dispute drew forth the efforts of the ahest minds., men took one side or the other with earnestness and with strong convictions, and maintained their opposite conclusions with eloquence and knowledge. These controversies were particularly earnest on the approach of the election of a Prewdent. It *as then that each party made more than usual efforts to show in what manner it was advantagously dis tinguished from the other; its views of the duty of government, its maxims of legislation, the abuses it sought to remedy, the objects it desired to effect, were set in array beforetthe people, and recommen ded by every argument which the inget.uiiy of the advocates could suggest. The peole were the umpires in these great controversies, and perhaps it is not too much to sav that the character of the people was raised arid' eimbled by the dignity of the questions which they were called upon to inves tigate and decade IVhat is the spectacle which is now presented to us by the men, professing to represent the views and policy of the two parties. assembled at Wash ing,ton It We see no attempt made by the leaders of either party to distinguish themselves from their political adversaries by -vise maxims of legislation. or better measures. There is a strife between the two parties to keep the favor of the south. by a vhow of zeal in favor of thecompromise measures, or, In other words, the Fugitive Slave law—for thte.isthe only one of those measures in regard to whicythere is now an opportunity of dispute. Each party claims to be the special champion of this law, and friends its claims to the good will of the southern stales up on the more zealous and effectual support it has giv en it. Beyond this ignoble attempt to establish a difference where no difference exists, at the hazard of introducing nnseently dissensions into both par ties, we do not see that there is anything to distin guish orte party in Congress essential from the other. We have an administration in which there are corrupt men ; the majori7 in Congress is professed ly in opposition to the administration, yet they from no check in its proceedings An immense quantity of rubbisly has been collected under the pretence of of taking the census, the printing of which it was expected that Congress would bestow, b% way of reward. upon the partisans of the administration, a score of whom would have mad?. their fortunes by it the plan could have been carried into effect The proposition for printing these printed statutes, is now before Congress. and members of both par ties are manarsivering fie. a plausible pretext to di vide the spoil between the subalterns of their d iff erent camps. Every movement now made when that question comes up—and it comes up every day —has for its fi nal object to give halt the profits of this corrupt . scheme to those who haunt the officeof the Washington Republic, andrne other ball to the conductors of the Washington Union. We have before Congress schemes of legislation for the benefit of individuals under the pretext of engaging them to build steamers which in case of war, may from a part of the American navy. II the democratic party in Congress were now, what it has been, these schemes would have been thrown out almost as soon as they were proposed. The old democratic maxims of frugality would have been referred to; the strict interpretation of the constitu tion on which we used to pride ourselves, and the wise dread of too much legislation, would have been invoked. Take the lists of nay s and yeas, and you find the members of the two parties voting side by side, in favor of these gifts from the treasury. So far as congress is concerned, the democratic pary appears to be in a stale of utter demoralization. The purification, the recal of the patty to its old maxims, to its former sincerity and disinterested ness, and by that means to its former strength, must come from without —Evening Post. FROM HAVANA —The steamer Cherokee. which arrived at this port yesterday from Havana, brings news from Cuba to the 17iti inst. Don Valentine Canedo was installed in office, as the Captain General of Cuba, on the 16th day of April, the day al er his arrival General Concha lett the island on the same day. His passage to the wharf from which tie embarked was attended by crowds of people, who gave audible demonstrations of a respect and esteem, which appears to !lave been really enthusiastic A more substantial token of the public regard was given Sixty thousand dollars was raised among the citizens of Havana, to be presented to his three children. Pi an address to the people at the island, dated April 16th, Concha says : " I remember to have said to you, when, on the 13th of November, 1850, 1 announced what would be my conduct, in the commarrd — in which I was then inaugurated, that I would never have another rule but that of law, justice, and morality. I pray you to decide, now Mat I leave this mandate in the hands 01 my worth successor, if I was not faithful to my promise"? I.or my part, I can affirm with all security. that I never forsook, with a deliberate intention, that promise. " said to you in that circumstance, when sup porting the noble de4ires of the government of her Majesty, I promoted al. that aimed at the improve ment of the administration. and the increase of prosperity in the Island. I have labored with anx iety to realize these most ardent desires of mine; and if I have not reached the point which you metited, I hope that you w"1:1 appreciate my exer tions, and render justice to my good will" A RET A REABI.C. MAN.—The Germantown (Ohio) Emporium has all obituary notice of Mr. John Scha fer, who died in Mat :vicinity on the 24th of Man h, aged 62 years. The notice concludes with Merle surprisim: statements The deceased was the largest man that we ever saw. The coffin was sufficiently large to contain' five men of ordinary size; measuring in width 3 feet 4 inches in the clear, and three feet in height. Three men could have worked in it at the same time, with convenience. It required six men to take him from the bed on which he expired. This was done by raising a platlorm—removing _ the head-board of the bedstead, and taking him out end wise. They could not get the coffin intrythe house, but by taking o 4 the door-facing of an old vacated house that stood iii the yard. they got it into that and carried the corpse thither on three empty bags. A wagon and lonr horses stood prepared, and tqn men placed the coffin and its contents upon it. In let ting down the coffin into the grave, they had two lines doubled—one at each end and one large well rope in the midd:e, and seventeen men to let down this great sprinkle of mortality into its last borne on earth. His weight was not known. VIRGINIA WIIIO STATE CONVENTIMI.--.The Vir ginia whig State Convention met at Richmond, Tuesday and proceeded to organize. A meeting of the delegates was held at the Capi• tol last evening, enthusiastically in favor of Mr. Fillmore. They are determined to support him or any other candidate who is reliable on the Com. promise. Lova AND FOLLY.-A man 60 years of age has been committed to jail at St . Louis for threatening to kill a girl of 19, because she refused to marry him, after he had made her the snag little present Of 525,0110. It was rather provoking: = ii 2 nt • • .........,......... The Judiciary committee of the Senate of ilk ed States, with a view of putting to rest all do s * on the subject, have made a tepon in that t od , that no additional legislation is,required in reg ard ; the n ew apportionment=; therefore they ~n ot, mend the adoption of theifollowing resol ut i on: &deed, That the number of electoral ewe . which each State shall' be entitled in the el„4. 1 ! of President and Vice President of the thin e dir2 in 1852, shtill be equal to the number of ant and Representatives to which each of raid Stave:; be found entitled by the apportionment nu I d e , , enumeration of 1850, as provided by the „,7 taking the set enth and subsequent census es , " proved May 23, 1850 The following statement exhibits the ei lt , ol made in the electoral vote of the State by 'h et i,, sus of 1850, which the resolution adopts as basis of the apportionment; EMU Maine, 8 9 N. Hampshire„ 5 6 Vermont, 5 6 Massachusetts, 11 12 Rhoee Island , 4 4, Connection!, 8 , 6 1 New York, 85 36 New Jersey, 7 7 Pennsylvania, 27 26 Delaware, a Maryland, 8 8 Virginia, 15 17 N. Carolina, • 10 11 S. Carolina, • 7 9 Georgia, 10 10 Florida, 3 31 Ohio, 23 231 BOTIGLART trt RoYBURY—HIGROIC Com a ev LADY.—A burglary occurred in Roxbury last n , in which three ruffians were concerned, al whom were frightened and fled at the appe araz of a solitary female The particulars of u m t. : „ glary are of more than ordinary interest 1,, pears that at a late hour three burglars eff ecte j , entrance into the bruise of David A. Simin i , n§, , the Highlands, at Roxbury, by means of cox, away the sash and removing the glass of a trindoi Once in the house, the robbers went to work • tematically, and ransacked every room until ik came to that of Mrs. Ruggles, a relative of MI Simmons, from whom they stole a gold walchaxj other small but valuable articles. The robbers then entered the room of Mra. Elu Sumner, a sister of Mr. Simmons, bot no row er had they made their unceremonious appe arace, Mrs. Sumner sprang out of bed. and seizeda poker. Twn of the rascals, seem; the determmer/ runner of Mrs. Sumner, maile their egress trranhetrremi ses in double quick time, but, ihe mud m\,,, e , thinking perhaps to defeat a weak rnd almost de. fenceless woman, lingered beli nd his companion!, and met with such a reception a.s we regret to fay , is accorded to lew burglars Mrs. Sumner dealt him a blow over thsheii with the pidter, thus enforving a command talon the premises instanter. The fellow took :he bin; and started . in snth haste, that instead of pa<singr, of the door, he dashed through a window, carryu. away sash and all, and falling down an ertits ment of four feet in height. Previous to mat his hurried exit, the burglar threw a ha , chet at 11 Sumner, but very fortunately the missile passed intended victim, and lodged in a door on the or site side of the room. In making his egress through the window, burglar dropped the watch and other articles in from the room of Mrs. Ruggles, ft is suppose( the robber was badly injured, as his track we. ed by his blood, which trickled horn the amen( received. It appears that from the Highleads robber passed across "the forts," traces of bk being found on his track until he reached the pier see of Mr. George Simmons. After passing i; estate. in the darkness, he is supposed to haver or walked off a cliff, which is about twenty be hight. and at the bottom of which was fount large pool nt blood this morning, Is well as'a el cap thoroughly saturated with the game fluid —' fon icon-nal. How rr Wont —One year ago' Portland (Me. contained from three to four hundred public shops now not one. In these Grogshnps, POI 83 each per day were expended, or $300,000 annum, mainly by those least able to afford outlay. The aggregate thus expended would e at least five barrels of Flour and five cords of Woad each for every family in the city One year ago there were 112 persons in the Pr. land A-Ims-liouse now but 90; and strentyfia r' these are known to have been reduced to Ita..nl intemperance--of course, prior to the takirtg of of the Maine Law. hi the two months prior n Law's going into operation, there were tune com.nttments that city tor serious crime rtt ten months which hare since transpired. there' but ten. Al the March term of the Disoirt Gam' for 1851 there were seventeen indictments Jorge.. ing found : in March 1852. there was but one It the ten months ekas..ing . with March. MI, ...kt were 279 commitments for Drunkennettts. faire!, &c. ; lor the corresponding ten months endtri rS March, 1852. there were 135, (less than he t:e nn Aber for the preceeding year :) and of itteml for selling Liquor without license, leavingless nnedourth the number of comniements. me ix Rom selling, in ten months, under as dung of little period next before the law went into or. tion. To the Watch House, 431 persons were rom a. ted during the ten months prior to the enarane the Law t during the like period since, !here b 4 been 180, or consideralrly less than one half former number. When the Maine Law passed Portland meditating a new Alms-House (at a cost of 57. 000) an I a new but under the operato that law they are found unnecessary - , the , buildings being ample for twice her present Winn so long as the Maine Law shall be nait ed. although some sly, clandestine liquor.seili still persevered in. The above facts we gather from Mayor IP retiring Message. In the face of such factscr Rumsellers be able to put down the Law or down the man l—lribune. ON't or THE WoM EN —rite Rhode 4sloti peronce Advocate tells the follower , stolett woman who is worth her weight in gold " In Foster. there was an intemperate mar had promised his wife th a t h a wou ld roe to Itt Maine Law candidates for the Senate anal Woe': On the morning of election day, he was eto^eJ the tavern, and treated by his anti law asfccar till he was drunk. His wife heard of it, t earcdld . him out, and got him home. Here she ;are 611 an emetic, and got him sober, and then borrow horse and wagon and drove him to the polls. voted for the Maine Law candidates. and losm: . vfl'e prevented the election of a rum RepregrA live. The result of it is. that we get one, and rt sibly two Maine Law men from that writ. In our columns may be tound the advertise:er a of that excellent medic ne known as Ayer's Cb err i Pectorial. ha success in coring, the various d' ses of the Limp is attracting arrversal amens,* not only of the learned- and philanthropic, but ofl whole public. The article undoubtedly is whit 4 pretenis to be, a remedy for Lung Complaints, the remarkable cures which Srp becoming to ll every , where cannot long be overlooked by thePe G° pie. NEW SPR I NG GOODS THE. reva n n a:T A . p — ro r n i o s . now receiving the Mg W e ' . h i h . sire asso rtment of SPRING AND SIVIE S MOODS that can be found in sc rim f irmonl• icivt;elPErsl. Indiana, 1 52 , e Illinois, II 4 lowa, It i lVipconsin, I Michigan, 5 6 1 Kentucky, 11 v Milwouri, I Alabama, I 2 Louisiana, 11 'Tenn'.%/ice, mi It 11 Mi.aisair 1•- i 7 i Arkansas, 1I fens, 4 i California, 4 i Whole no. 295 Fur choice, 143
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