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E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
Towanda, Saturday, May 8, 1851
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Thilragilliv Slave Law.
While sapient legislators and disinterested and
patriotic politicians are earnestly endeavoring, by
re-affirmation, to make the Compramise measures
a "finality—while those measures are declared by
Southern statesmen,, and by Norihem donghfaces,
as sacred,,and any attempt to alter or amend them
as fraught with 19cals. ‘ ulable danger to the perpetui
ty of the Union—the practical operation of the F.
glace Slave, Late, is daily developing its arbitrary,
unsafe and monstrous character. Nearly evety
capture which has been made under the shadow of
its authority, has been accompanied by scenes of
violence, injustice and oppression, such as have
awakened in the breasts op Freemen, not opposed
to the rendition of Fugitiii4 from service, feelings
of the most intense horror and the deepest indigna ,
lion, and aroused a deep sense of the injustice and
iniqoity of the law.
We recognise, in its broadest and most binding
sense, thetuarantees of the Constitution which se
cures to the slaveholder the enjoyment of the servis .
tee of his human chattel—and as repugnant as it is
to the feelings of those whose highest boast it is
that they are Freemen, and know no master--
•e Whose knee is bowed alone to Gon,
And feared atone Ills sovereign word,"
to see human beings dragged back to slavery, we
feel sensibly the requirements which our forefathers
have placed upon us, aretwould, not interpose a
single obstacle in the way of a faithful observance
of all the rights and pr i vileges secured to Slave pro
perty, by the concessions which cemented this
Union, and framed the Constitution.
We believe this is the sentiment of the great body
of the people of the North. There may be those
'oho would be willing at the risk of the Union,even,
to disregard these duties—but the number is small,
and their efforts, against the healthy and law-abid
ing disposition of the mass, would be powerless to
do harm. The people of the North are ready and
willing to respect,the rights of their Southern breth-
Ten. They are ready to pour not their heart's best
treasure, to render them secure in the quiet enjoy
ment of their property, and recognize. their claim
upon it, wherever found and
. proven. Upon the
question of Slavery in the abstract, however, here
it but one sentiment at the North. It is a feeling of
Titter loathing and hostility to an institution which
eonsigns to degradation, and bondage, and stripes,
any portion of the human race. It is the same uni
versal and deep-seated emotion of regret at the ex
istence of such a dark stain upon oar National cha
racter, which formerly Southern statesmen were
neither afraid nor ashamed to confess. No true
patriot can reflect that in this model Republic, the
lustre of , T0:165e renown otherwise were resplendent
—there are in bondage' three millions of human
creatures, withoet feeling that our stars and stripes
ate tarnished and _Opined- by the humiliating fact
There is an inherent, ever-abiding horror of Slavery
implantedbi , the Maker in the breast of every man.
In every age, ind'untler all circumstances, mankind
have revolted at the idea of servile degradatimie—
Freed2m is the natural condition of the race, and
tall restraints not enjoined by Divine Law, or-the
requirements of society, are unnatural and 'oppres
sive.
In another column, may be found an account of
the murder of an alleged fugitive, at columbia.
Whin the borders of the good old Quaker common
wealth, "joimdal in deals •of peace." Commission.
er INGRAHAM, at Philadelphia, was content - to show
Iris devotion to the Union, by sending a free man
Into Sistvery—but , then the beauties of the Taw
were imperfectly understood. In New York city,
they do the business in a summary manner, by de
ciding the question without a hearing. At Buffalo,
the"officers
,provide far any attempt at resistance,
by coolly knocking the party wanted over the head
with a billet of wood,' and thus place him hors du
combat, top of a cooking stove. In Columbia, how.
ever, the officers have, a livelier appreciation of
their dutiet, and moreenlarged idea of their privi.
leges under- - the Fuziti e Slaw Law. A revolver is
,placed at the bead of the fugitive, and at the fainest
show of resistance, or slightest apprehension of an
attempted rescue, a bullet is despatched, which
places the negro beyond the power of marshals and
commissioners. A lamentable occurrence, surely,
when we consider that- the slave.catcherlirrs to
have S4OO for returning the "chattel " to its owner.
If some Union Safety Committee, or the Maryland
1, , Legislature, do not remunerate the officer for his
lonia this ease.-the spirit of the day will not be
fully carried out.
We submit if the practical operation of this Fugi.
life Slave Law has not fully demonstrated that its
provisions are not calculated to accomplish what
our Southern fiends desire—the certain and peace
:: tut return of their property. Eich_scene of blood
—each spectacle of tyrranny and injustice, display
ed in capturing fugitive slaves, does immense inju
ry ICi the. institutigo itself. It needs but one occur.
settee is tf neighborhood, such as have happened
many times since the passage of this law, to en
kindle in the minds of the most unconcerned, an
intense hatred of the curse, whose legitimate haus
are scenes of bloodshed and oppression and wrong.
TheFcgitite Slave Law is daily doing more for the
Abolitionists, than the- ravings and ribaldry of the
usual faritiCal could accomplish in a century. That
it is not calculated to secure the rights of the slave.
boldereffettually, is indfcated by the acts of yin.
knee which have been perpetrated by police offi
ceroc-and-the unjust and tyrrannical decisions of the
ocunniisviiniters Itsteatbenefit is to aid the kid
napper in his nefarious business With an ener
getic•and ur.scrupulous officer, and a Commissioner
strongly imbued with the mock patriotism just now
in vague, and deeply irrquesse,!, ate necessity
of preserving the Union, by returning fugitives, and
the poor negro,. whether bond ,or free, stands .no"
more chance for his liberty, than, if he . was taken
captiFein one of the ging of, Thiliomeee fOrays:`
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We desire to see a Fugitiite Slava Law neon oar
statute books*, vrhiolfthe Mirth can unite in seeing
adored. Such at one r we-have no doubt, could
be framed-=which would prove efficient in restor
ing the property, of the South, and at the same time
-plus the negro out of danger of injustice. Under
the present law the North is expected to engage in
a great Millie-hunt. ft is to this, that we attribute
.all the hostility which has been manifested toward
that enactment, Fieemen will not consent to be
come slave catchers, nor to follow up, like blood
honnils,:ihe trail of the panting fugitive from chains
and oppression, to debar him from the enjoyment
of'ilie liberty we prize so much.. Even the chival
ric Soutbron looks with contempt on the whole
race of slave dealers and slave-catchers. And it
will be in vain that they ask Freemen in the North
to become the active instruments in returning men
to bondage; No more than a passive obedience
can be expected to any law for the renditiOn of fu
gitives from labor. The Constitution, and oar duty
in the Confederacy require no mote than this. To
secure even this passive acquiescence to a law the
requirements of which awaken rePulsive feelings,
the clearest proof must be adilticed that the fugitive
awaking repulsive feelings, the clearest proof must
be adduced that the fugitive owes the alleged ser
vice, else the law gives rise to bloodshed and anar
chy, and at once defeats the purpose for which it
was framed.
The duly of the South begins fiat. - It is incumb
ent upon them to show plainly that this claim is a
just one in every case where a Fugitiveris involved,
and that being shown, the duty of the North com
mences. They are to permit the captive tube re
turned—and totassist the officers if need be, in the
execution of their duties. Under the present law,
no attempt is made to satisfy the natural inquiry of
every freeman—no respect is to his feelings and
prejudices. The Commissioner only is to be satisfi
ed, and we are reqnireil, whether satisfied or not
of the legality of the claim, to see that it is execut
ed. In our view, no more degrading and humilia
ting task could have been placed upon Norther free
men than is enjoined by the Fugitive Slave Law.—
Nod yet, this is the wise and humane enactment
which just now is the ne plus ultra of legislation—
upon the faithful performance of which rests the
stability of onr institutions, and to discuss the possi
bility of the alteration of which involves the rerma
nancy of our Union. Panderers to Southern interests
may succeed for a white in keeping the South in a
state of alarm, by sounding the tocsin of danger to
the Fugitive Stave Law—but .we are satisfied that
a few years will prove that its operation is calcula
ted to do immense injury to the stability of their
peculiar species of property, and its recovery when
escaping, and that the South, in a spirit of patriot
ism and liberality, will themselves ask such altera
tions to be made, as will satisfy the north, and at
the same time more effectually guard their rights.
Adjournment of the Legislature...
The Legislature of Pennsylvania closed its ardu
ous and important labors on Tuesday last.
An act was passed, authorizing the Governor to
borrow five millions of dollars, for the purpose of
paying the debt of the state already, or about to
become doe.
The Governor is directed to advertise for thirty
days, in New York, Boston and Philadelphia for
the loan to completellithe North Branch, and the
bonds issued are exempted from taxation,
In the Senate ; CHRISTAIN IME-yetts was elected
Speaker, Mr. tV,lt.xca's time expiring before the
assembling of the next Legislature.
The committee of Centel - once finally agreed up
on a Congressional apportionment. The bill as
passed, districts the Stale as follows:
I—Southwark, Moyamensine, Paseyunk, in the
county cf Philadelphia, and Cedar, Lombard, New
Market and Spruce wards, in the city 'of Philad'a.
ll—The city of Philadelphia, excepting the wards
before mentioned.
Dl—Kensington and Northern Liberties, in the
county of Philadelphia.
IV—Spring Garden, Penn district, North Penn,
Kingsessing, West Philadelphia, Blockley, Rich
mond, Unincorporated Northern Liberties, Brides
burg. Aramingo, in the county of Philadelphia.
V—Mongomery county, and Bristol township,
Upper and_Lower Germantown, Upper and Lower
Manayutik, Frankford, Rox borough, By berry, Lower
Dublin, Whitehall, Oxford and Moreland, in the co.
of, Philadelphia.
Vl—Chester and Delaware.
Vll—Lehigh and Backs
Vlll—Lancaster.
X—Lebanori, Dauphin and Union, and the town
ship of bower litahonoy, in the county of Northum
berland.
Xl—Schnylkill and Northumberland counties, ex
cept Lower Mahonoy township.
Xll—Montour,Columbia,Luzente and Wyoming.
NM—Northampton, Monroe, Carbon, Wayne and
Pike.
XlV—Susquehanna, Bradford and Tinga.
X V—Lyeoming, Sullivan, Potter, Clinton, Centre
and Mifflin,
' XVl—York, Perry and Cumberland
XVll—Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, and
Juniata.
XVltf—Somerset, Cambria, Blair & HuntinKdon,
XlX—Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong.
XX—Fayette, Greene and Washington.
XXl—Allegheny county. except that part which
lies Ninth East of the Ohio, and North west of the
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A r.
gheny rive
2Cll—Butler•county, and that part of Allegheny
c nty not included in the 21st district.
XXlll—Deaver, Lawrence and Mercer.
XXlV—Vena nett, Warren. McKean, Clearfield,
Elk. Forrest, Jeffe rson b and Clarion.
XXV—Erie and Crawford.
Hr. Clare Health.
The Tribune has" a dispatch from Washington,
concerning Mr, Clay, dated the 4th, which says
that Mr. Clay's condition is now entirely hopeless.
He is sinking very last, and it was feared last night
that he would not survite until morning. Though
very weak,,he is perfectly conscious of his condi
tion, and seems tally prepared to meet death.
President Fillmore visited him on Sunday, and
the interview was of a most solemn and icuching
character. A gloom seemed to hang,Apon every
countenance as they beheld the appreactiing demi
se of the great statesman and patriot.
MICHIGAN D OCUTIC CONYCNTIUN.—TIIO lYe
mocratic State Convention met ...at Detroit on the
28th nh. MI members were in favor of General
CASs. Ex•Godernor MCLELLAND and and ALFRED
BLANK were elected delegates for the State at large
to the Baltimore Convention.'
GEN.Cass asst THE FUOIIIVE SLAVE LAW.-.A.
despatch from Washington says that Mr. A. O. P.
Nicholson, of Tennessee, has a letter in his posses•
wino from Gen. CA's, containing his reasons for not
voting for the Fugitive Stave Law, one of which is,
- that it did no contain the Jury clause.
Appointment by the Cloverentr.
" M. F' RANSOM, ol SinithfieW, as aid. to - Gotrinor
Incur; with the earth of heat. Co)
Col. Itassom has our felicitations-Upon his new
hottori : The poveritor's appointments, as - far as
Bradford county iiconoemed, certainly show a wise
discriMination in - making up his 41 body: gnarl"—
I f all his aides are like those has appointed here, it
is an honor to be enrolled in the staff.
ACCIDWIT TO /me. BALLARD...-W 43 regret to learn
from the Trojan that Hon. Muter 141.111. D, of Co
tumble township, met with rather a aerious acci
dent or. Sunday trioni!ng .Aprill24th. - It appears
that a hog belonging to Mr. B. by some means es•
caped from the pen in which he was enclorted.—
Mr. B. while nsing'a knife to - make" the enclosure
secure against a like occarrence, accidently let it
slip, thereby cutting a very deep and dangerous
gash upon his left wrist, severing the main artery
and one of the Cords. But for the presence of mind
Mr. Ballard, acd the timely assistance of his friends
he . would have undoubtedly bled to death inn ve
ry few minutes. Mr. B. on cutting himself, imme
diately clasped the other hand tightly upon the
wound, which stopped the flow of blood until his
friends could make it more secure by bandaging
it tightly above the elbow. Drs. Parsons end An•
drews were immediately called, and after some
difficulty succeeded in uniting the severed artery
and cords again.
Mr B. we understand is doing as well as can be
expected under such circumstances. . -
STEAM ENGINEA, BOILERS, MACHINERY Seo.—We
would call the attention of manufacturers and me.
dunes, to the advertisement of the Essex Company
Lawrence, Mass ,in to-day's paper. They Mann
facture extensively, and are prepared to furnish
orders to any extent. Any business entrusted to
this company, will be attended to promptly and in
the very best manner.
The Fatal Slave case fa Columbla.
We find in Saturday's Baltimore papers Ridge
ly's version of the fatal affair at Columbia. The
American gives it (bus:
On Wednesday last, Mr. A. G. Ridgely, of the
police firm of Zell & Ridgely, left this city for the
purpose of arresting two fugitive slaves, the proper.
ty of Messrs. George W. Hall and H. G. Michel, of
Harford county, - who were supposed to be some
where in the vicinity of Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. R. went from here to Harrisburg, and there cib
tamed warrants km the United States Commiss
ioner of that District, Mr. R. llolcAllister,for the ar
rest of the fugitives, and also procured the service
of two deputy marshals to assist him. He then pro
ceeded to Columbia, where he had been informed
one of the negroes lived, and found him at work
in a lumber yard. Mr. R. told him for what pur
pose he had come, and by what authority he acted;
but as.seon as he attemptei the arrest, the negro,
whose name was Smith, resisted furiously, and by
his out cries collected a crowd of his fellow work
men about him, who endeavored to prevent his
capture.
Preeeiring from the disposition of the crowd that
reasoning would be of no avail, the officers dre*
their arms, and thought .to intimidate the negroes
by threatening to shoot them if they attempted a
rescue. Mr. R. had hold or the slave Smith, and
was struggling with him, in order to get him away,
while at the/tame time he held his revolver extend
ed towards the crowd in his right hand, to prevent
their rushing upon him. The negro by a sodden
jerk managed to get Mr. R's thumb in his month,
and bit him so severely that he was compelled to
use his right hand to free himself, and in the strug
gle to do so the pistol exploded; lodging the entire
contents in the negro's neck, and killing him in
stantly.
After this unfortunate occurrence,, Mr. Ridgely
offered to give himself up to the authorities, and
abide a trial by the laws of that Slate, and for this
purpose went to the hotel, where he was 10, await
the arrival of the officers. Subsequently, however,
he was advised that such a course would be impru
dent, and it was suggested that he should leave pri•
vately, and endeavor to escape. This advice was
acted upon, and he started forthwith for Parkion,
about thirty miles distant, on foot, arrived there
fortunately, in time to meet the train of cars on the
Baltimore and Susquehanna road. He reached
home yesterday morning, much fatigued by the
hazardouaexpedition, but free from any,injury from
that infuriated mob.
Mr. R. regrets the unfortunate issue of thii affair.
The other officers assisting Mr. Ridgely made use
of the excitement occasioned to effect their escape.
Some additional ()maculate, which appear in the
Clipper, we append :
One of the deputies had but one arm. Mr. Ridge-
Iv warned by the awful fate that had attended other
messengers from Maryland on a similar errand,
had gone prepared to defend himself and secure the
property he was sent to recover.
That it was designed on the prat of Mr. Ridgely
to commit this act must be evident to every unpre
judiced mind, horn the fact that he was to receive
5400 for the delivery of the slave to his master in
this State.
Officer Snyder, who was in company with Mr.
Ridgely, took the cars for Harrisburg, where he had
been temporarily arrested, but subsequently liberal.
ed without examination.
The Sun's account says that the pistol went off
accidently in a scuffle, and that upon the result be.
ing known, Mr. Ridgely sand he would give him
sell up to the authorhi es, and was about to do so,
but he met a gentleman, the proprietor of the pub•
lic house there who advised him to leave the place,
on account of the great excitement which woula
doubtless arise.
The other part of the story is thus related by the
Columbia Spy, published at the scene of the tran
saction :
On Thursday afternoon last, about 4 o'clock, an
intense excitement was created in our borough by
the report that a fugitive slave had been shot by a
police officer from Baltimore. Immediately after
the announcement, a large number of persons pro
-ceeded to the place where it was said that the affair
happened, and truly enough, a colored man named
Wm. Smith lay there-a corpse. The particulars, as
nearly as we have been able to ascertain them are
as follows .—Deputy Marshal Snyder, from Harris.
burg, and a police officer named Ridgely, from Bal
timore, came to Columbia with a warrant issued by
Commissidner McAlister - of Harrisburg, to arrest
the fugitive above named, who was engaged in pil
ing lumber in 'the yard of Mr. Goilieb Sener. Ac
cording-to the testimony given befall, the coroner's
jury, the two officers reeired to where Smith was
working, and as he waY proceeding to the wharf
seized him Smith endeavored totbseape, and whilst
doing so, and in custody of the officers, (as the ver
dict of the Coroner's jury shows,) Ridgely drew.
a pistol and shot him, the ball entering the right
side of his neck, just below the ear. Smith tell, and
expired in a few monients. The officers then left
—as Ridgely said, to deliver themselves up to the
proper authorities; but as afterwards proved—at least
'so Far as he was concerned—to escape (min justice.
Shortly after the occurrence he passed over the Col
umbia Bridge, since which nothing has been heard
nt him. The Deputy Marshall,.Snyder, started for
Harrisburg in the evening train., which left about
7 o'clock.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, (sickness having
prevented him from doing so betote that hour,) J.
W. Fisher Esq , Deputy Coronor, held On inquest
over the deceased, and thejury rendered the fol•
lowing s erdict's 44 . - William Smith came to his death
from the cohtents of &pistol fired by--Ridgely,
whilst the said Smith was within the custody of
said Ridgely, and Deputy Marshal Snyder, of Har
risburg
Volcanic Eruption at Sandwich
„Ls! with.
,
,
- .Dates from Haeoldlu'te the 1 3th`. March.have
beet received - five days heathen by previous at
.
Interreming reports appear' of the of progress the
aEe• • ._. • ....
_
grand eW
ption on the -and of flaWmit. The latest
accounts from the scehe °film fiery visitation !are
dated March 6. The spectacle is said to be sub
lime beyond anything,of the kind over , witnessed.
The - eruption exceeds in grandeur any (ditto valca
ale convulsions of Mauna Loa ever before seen by
white men on the Islands We subjoin accounts
of its action from the Polynesian :
" We have received verbal information in regard
to the state of - eruption, as late as to the 6th inst.,
from the leeward side of Hawaii. At - that date, the
light from the flowing entreat was as bright as it
had bei3n 'at any former:period, sufficient to en.able
a person to pick up a needle from the. ground at
midnight, from which fact the inference is drawn
that the current is still rapidly flowing , pit towards
the sea.
The eruption seem!" io have broken out through
an old fissure, about one-third down the side of
Manna Loa on the north-west sideand not far from
the old crater on the summit called Mokuoweow
en. The altimie of the present eruption is about
10,000 feet above the level of thel sea and frotifthe
bay of Hilo, (Byron's Bay,) must be come 50 or 70
miles. If it succeed in reaching the ocean at the
point supposed, atter having filled up all the ravines
gulches, and inequalities of a very broken country,
it will undoubtedly be one of the most extensive
eruptions of modem times.
It would seem, from the last note from Mr. Coan
that the stream had divided—one part taking an
easterly course towards Puna, while the other took
a northerly one towards Hilo. This may so divide
the volume of lava that neither, branch will reach
the sea • but from the -latest accounts the norther
ly branch was stilt - burning its way through a dense
forest, and if the supply holds out long enough, it
will naturally - fall into the course of the Wailuka
River, and follow it to where it disembegnea into
the Bay, at Hilo. We anxiously wait further intel
ligence.
An abstract from a correspondent's letter, in The
Polynesian, is of so much interest, that we copy it
entire. A jet of lava playing five hundred feet in
air must be indeed a most magnificent and sublime
sight :
By an accurate measurement of the enormousjet
of growing lava, where it first broke forth on the
side of Manna Loa, it was ascertained to be five
hundred feet high! This was upon the supposition
that it was thirty miles distant. We are at the op.
pinion that it greater distance, say from forty to six
ty miles. With a glass, the play of this jet, at night
was distinctly observed, and a more sub 'me sight
can scarcely be imagined. A column of molten
lava, glowing with the most intense heat, and pro
jecting into the air to a distance of five hundred
feet, was a sight so rare, and at the same time so
awfully grand, as to excite the most lively leelirgs
of awe and admiration, even when viewed at a dis
tance of forty nr filly miles. How much more awe
iritipiring would it have been at a distance of one or
two miles, where the sounds accompanying such
in eruption conld have been heard. The fall of
such a column would doubtless cause the earth to
tremble; and the roar of the rushing mass would
have been like the mighty waves of the ocean beat
ing upon a rock-bound coast.
The diameter of this.is supposed to be over one
hundred feet, and this we can easily believe, when
we reflect that from it proceeded the river of lava
that flowed ofl from it toward the sea. In some
places the river is a m ‘ ile wide, and in others more
contracted. At some points it has filled up ravines
one hundred, two hundred and three hundred feet
in depth, and still it flows on. It entered a heavy
forest, and the giant growth of centuries is cut , down
befdre it, like the grass before the mower's scythe!
'No obstacle can arrest it in its descent to the sea.—
Mountains are covered over, ravines are filled up,
forests are destroyed, and the habitations of man
are consumed like flax in the furnace. Truly "He
toucheth the hill, and they smoke."
We have not yet heard of any distraction of life
from the eruption now in progress A rumor has
reached us that a small native village has been des
troyed, but olthis - we have no authuntic intilligenc.
Should it reach the sea without destroying life or
property, it will be a matter of thaakfullness and al
most unhoped for exemption.
Synopsis of Decisions of Superinten
dent of Common schools.
The school law directs that as soon as the presi•
dent of the board of directors of any school district
shall have issued his warrant for the collection of
a school tax. [which IS directed to be levied on or
before the first Monday in May, he shall certify
the same•to the superintendent, who, upon its re
ceipt shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer
for the amount of the annual state appropriation to
which such district is entitled. This duty of the
presidents is frequently delayed, some times even
until after the close of the school year for which the
tax is levied. The superintendent has decided that
the law does not contemplate that a warrant shall
be issued in any where the certificate of the assess•
ment of the tax is not received within the year for
which the tax is levied and for which the warrant
should be drawn ; an 1, therefore will not issue a
warrant in such cases.
A custom prevails in many districts which have
been divided into sub-districts, td make divisions
of the funds of the former among the latter and pay
the amount over to the committees of the sub-dis
tricts and permit them to expend it as they see
proper. This is altogether wrong. Where sub
districts exist, the direetors i ihould annually, at the
commencement of the school year, inform the corn
mittee'of each that a specified amount will be set
apart for the use of their sub-district, but should not
pay the same to the committee; under no circum
stances should money be drawn from the district
treasury except upon the order of the president, &c
by direction of thet board of directors, for money
already due, will / eh must be drawn in favor of the
individuals to Whom it is due. The committee of
each sub-district should certify bills of all expenses
incurred by them to the board oQirectors for their
examination and approval, and it found correct the
board should direct an order to be drawn on the dis
trict treasurer for the amount.
The law of 1850 exempting money at interest
from taxation for borough and township purposes,
does not .include school tax. All subjects and
things taxable for either state or county purposes
must also be taxed for school purposes. Where
directors have refunded school tax assessed and cob
lected on money at interest, under the mistaken
idea that the act of 1850 (referred to) exempted
money at interest from taxation for that purpose,
they cannot collect it again ; but where they have
merely exonerated the amount they may insert it
again oe their duplicate and collect it.
It is not admissible to appoint a director colt ec
tor of school tax. The fact that the board make
exonerations, and that a director holding the office
of collector would thus have a voice in exonerating
himself from the collection of tax he had not made
proper eflort to collect, presents sufficient reason for
this decision.
A BRUTAL OUTRAGE UPON Loi. Moraves —As
Lola Monies was entertaining a party of friends in
her parlor in the Howard House, on Friday even
ing, some high words arose between herself and a
certain Italian Chevalier, when the brute in the
shape of a man, struck the Countess in the shape of
a woman, a blow on the face ! Four or five craven
hearted loons in breeches ' stood by without lifting,
a linger in her - defence! Lola immediately on re.
covering rang the bell, and dispatched a servant
for a friend, " Mr. Pick" who came to the rescue
and gave the Italian brute a well-de.erved flogging.
We have these facts floin one of the parties. We
would give more . partrulars but for lack of time
and space. We understand there is great excite.
ment to•day among the Italian Coffee Houses; and
more fights are likely to grow out of the ethic—N.
Y. Mirror.
—The new Arctic expedition had not telt 'Otani
wieh on the 29th ult.
Later from California.
-ille - litiamsti tiescent
,City, Ca - Oran W
arrivedatNewlr
wit Sunday:morning Tivith,the
iforniamailslo,the -sth ult., two millions Of dollara
in gold dust on; freight, and a large amount in the
Fiends ot_the'passengers, 542 in nuniber.. • '
The gold dust freight BM and the passenger list of
the Crescent are. enormously large. - • -
The number of passengers by the Crescent City
iefive hundreLlAnd forty twos. I is estimated that
they have six hundred thousand dollars worth of the
dust and specimens in their hands, making the ag.
gregate value of the gold by this arrival, nearly
two millions five hundred thousand dollars.
t . KIM/at:yor taws.
GovernorßiWer has appointed General Anderson
of Tdolume, to the vacancy on the beach of the Su
preme "Cotitt Oecasioned by the, resignation °fledge.
Lyons. . It is said that Mi. Alexander Wells has
likewise been appointed the fourth Judge in place
'of Mr Burnett. •
The Legislature" dragrt its slow' length along,"
with no appearance as, yet, of final adjournment.
It was thought,however, tjtat the session wou'd not
be prolonged beyond a;week or two at furthest.—
There was an accumulation of unfinished business
before both houses•-a aonsidemble portion of which
his to be hoped, will never engage their attention.
The bill to provide for the disposal of the 500,000,
acres of land donated to this State by the General
Government for common School purpoies ; the bill
recommending the people In vote at - the next gen
ciii election for or against a Constitutional Conven.
lion ; the , bill prohibiting the issue scrip or warrants
to circulate as money; the bill revising and amen
ding our present system of practice in the Courts of
this State;
the bill to provide for the construction of
Telegraph lines ; the bill repealing the Water Lot
bills of last session, and many others, were on the
table of the Senate.
A warm discussion and some remarkable pro.
ceedings have grown out of the question of a repeal
of the water Lot bill, passed by a former Legtsta.
lure. The bill repealing the second section of the
second "Water Lot act, after passing the Assembly,
was met in the Senate with such a violent opposi
tion on the part of two or three members, aS tocom.
mit it to the hands of one of the standing commit•
tees, the Senators even striving for a repeal of the
two former acts,
entire in the course of the debate
allusions were lreely made to a vast amount of bri
bery and corruption alleged to have existed in the
former Legislature, and several citizens of the first
standing were implicated. Th's led to a motion,
which was adopted, ordering the Sheriff to subpena
the persons named, and accordingly a dozen or
more citizens occupyirig prominent places in busi
ness and Ballet circles have been arraigned belcre
the bar of the Senate. But, as might have been ex
pected, their testimony establishes nothing. The
introduction of a biltinto the Assembly, providing
for a contract system, of long terms of service with
laborers in China (Coolies) has stirred up a spirit
of opposition on the part of the people.
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
The same steady and uniform success which
characterized our reports from the various sections
ot the placers, at the time ot making up our last
summary. ot gold news, continues, and the rains,
which have so abundantly visited every part of the
mines, have left a rich harvest for the diggers. All
the streams, north and south, have been unusually
swollen, and considerable damage has been occa
skirted by the washing away of dams and mining
works, and of the flooding of deposits, where au.
riferous earth had been collected and stored,aivait
ing the rain. But these losses are trifling where
title beneficial change wrought in the general pros.
peels of the miners by the abundant supply 01 wa
ter is considered, ank,ali feel compensated for the
loss of property and Tibor, while conjuring up bright
visions of future operations along the full streams
which have swept it away. There is no complain
ing now, but succe.sful and well-plied luditstry is
causing the earth to yield harvests of gold.
It is found as the waters gradually recede from
the flats bordering on the streams in the mining
region, and the rivers resume their natural chan
nels, that the surface deposits, or the washings, are
in many places materially changed by the action of
the flood. The Walities of the bars, and alono
the banks, where the treasures was most exposed,
and which have been left in some places almost bar
ren, and where the earth had been turned over in
vain before, new formations of deposits have been
made
The' spring emigrations from our ci ties to the
mining interior has commenced. Parties are to be
seen every day in the streets or on our wharfs,
equipped for the mines. The drain upon our " float
ing population" will be great, but we'expect to re
alize a benefit in the exchange of these persons for
the wealth which their industry will aceumu'ate,
and their necessities put in circulation among us
this summer. The number of Chinese laboreres
that will visit the mines this spring will be very
great. Every day parties of thirty and forty may
be seen in our streets, their stores, utensils, and
other trays heaped upon a dray, wending their way
to the Stockton and Sacramento steamboat landings
This class of miners is, perhaps, of.all others the
least profitable. Their wants are few, and suppli
ed in a peculiar manner,.ahil, as they are saving,
penurious, and apt at trade, society seldom gets tile
benefit of their eernings, When they have accu
mulated a few hundred dollars each, their fortunes
are made for their own country.
The State Central Committee.
A small minority okiliat. body, recently assem
bled in Philadelphia, seemed determined to prove
themselves worthy of the source from whence they
derive their origin—the reckless majority of the
rate state - or rather Buchanan convention.
Determined that the fact that the possibility of
Mr. Buchanan catryinr , ' his own state is still a moo
ted question, shall not be lost sight of, they have
issued an address re-arguing the quest.on, and more
remarkable for its mis-representations of the real
feelings of the democracy of Pennsylvania, than for
any thing else. We have no hesitation in brand
ing as libellers of the democracy of the Keystone
Stare% the man or set of men, who openly assert or
secretly insinuate, that the nomination of Mr. Buch
anan is necessary to secure the vole of Pennsylva
nia to the democratic party in the approaching con•
test. Whether if such were the fact, the knowl
edge of it would be likely to induce The democracy
of the other states to buy up the democracy of Penn
sylvania,l)y giving them their pet candidate, we
leave those to whom the argument is addressed to
decide. We can readily conceive, however, how
such an assertion on the part of the democracy of
Michigan, or Illinois, would be received by the de•
mocracy of Pennsylvania, and we presume all the
democrats of other states are male m the same ma•
terial
The committee closed their labors by adjourning
to meet in Maryland What iho state central com.
mince ol Pennsylvania have to Jo in another state,
is not easily conjectured, but when we consider the
committee in the light which they rloribtlese con
sider themselves, as a committee of friends of 31r.
Buchanan, having no other purpose than to advo
cate his nomination, or failing in that to defeat that
ol Gen Cass, we can at once see the propriety of
the step, and the Anal propriety of an ailjnommelit
sine die at the dose of that session.—Keystone.
Tee FAT).. nr CUBA.—Under the new Gooerner-
General who had just begun his administration. in
Cuba, we may now expect to see tile African slave
trade swelled to, an extent even greater than that
which has marked the recent history of the Brazils.
In fact, the fate of Cuba is clearly written in theft).-
titre; and that fate will be the destiny of San Do•
:Map, by a rising and rebellion
.among the . Afri
can negroes imported into the island, in due process
of time, unless Spain transfers. it totho United States
for :ma and for all. - .
SMALL NOTES in Dcrawanc.—On and alter Sat.
nrday, the first of May, no notes of foreign banks
can be passed Delaware under the denomination
of five dolists, under a penalty of ten dollars. Tray.
ellecA, as well as others should remembet thi..
Foreign Items by the last 9t Vie.
4—Tli journal,
of St. Petersbum en the 2d up
ahnivenceek that from the 12th toiltahLei yheet,r,,:
airrthe Russiati troops had several enzd,zernen,4'
Intl the mountaineers in the Cancans had takft
e by r o a t s C sa h t al t c Z ul ll a P i Y a ri n and a nd
had d Egn e a s n jo i yed tt.r ee
They add` lhat a new engagement Look place"
the let of Marsh ? and that the mountaineemmta:
routed with,coqsiderable lose. •
lemesvar, a Hungarian journal, ri tives
correspondence from Mecca, from which ft ap:
that the rebel Wechabitea have beaten the 50,,.
troops, taken possession of the Holy Cfty,
threatening Syria. It was said that the V ic :,
of Egygt supports them, in order to eroba ri ;, 7 .
Sultan.
—Signor Befietti, made his first appearl%,„;
London, Rime his return from America, at : mr
jesty's Theatre, on Tuesday, the 13th un
opera, of " Ofratina in Algeria " M.llle ,s 4
Cruvelli was announced to commence an e,
•
ment as Norma, on the 13th.
—Some of the German ortvemment‘. in ord , r ,
check the emigration which is continually
ing, have, says a leiter from Berlin, resolved t o ,
quire a lax of from six-toeigit thalers from ety
emigrant for the right to leave.
—Some of tie recent gouvrnment regst v ,_
with regard to thej.French theatres are elnldob ti
the extreme—such, for instance as the fixe li
the size of the bills for each house, the eharr eq ,
type, color of paper, and the order in which 6
bill* of the respective establishments are 451
posted.
—The Paris advices of Friday, the IS:h
state, that the son of Victor Hugo has relcr4 4 "
cept a.remission of his sentence of imprtsollite.
while the father and h is old colleague, Paallf,:.;
rice, remain in confinement.
—Several young men were arrested a 4 , 1* 1 :..
ago, at Pesth, in Hungary, for having wortrlnci
ribbons, and cried Long Life KossuthT
• r,
toy cealers were also anested for has Az
(hr sale dolls and toys ornamented with the 024
al colors.
—Misery continues t 6 prevail in varioai par
Germany, owing to the scarcity of food. In
neighborhood of Frankfort-on-the-Main rye
was one and a quarter per pound.
—The yield of/the gold mines in the ()wall
tains, betcmging to the crown and private Wei
als, was, in 1651, about 6.956 tbs of gold
about 300 Ibir: of platina ; and in Siberia then
was 66,47$ lbs.
—General Mannino, the brotherin-lam of,
had landed at Lisbon, and flom ar fc , D , 4
was a going to the Courf of Spain. iciiiome
et in his head to offer Buenos Ayresui alkpanus
prince.
--Some Americans were arrested in Route,
the 10th ult. Mr. Cass, the American Chat
Atlairs had taken the matter up. One of the pel
arrested was accused of publicly address.n2 the
habitants and abusing the Papal government.-11
matters would, however, it was presumed, ea
be adjusted, as the Papal authorities were or
terms both with the United Slates government
their representative resident in the Eternal Cit
—Prince Paul of
. }lTurtenburg, died in Par
the 35th ult. Just as he breathed his last, t:
pal Nuncio intimated that the Prince had,
night previously, abjured the Protestant fan
become a Ror.an Catholic The greatest
was manifested by the Iriends and relation:
Prince at the announcement, and much; is,
tine repressed at the secrecy which tub
tamed upon the subject.
—The Madrid Espana says that the gavel
have acceeded to the request of Brigadier
that a court of inquiry should be held to tar
the lacts on which General J. Concha. in
with other authorities of Cuba, had founded !,
missal from the rsovernment of ltlantatizas
be recollected that this officer was &Ins
dabbling in the slave trade.
—Those of the American prisoners enact
the Cuban invasion who were at Cerra.
been, pardoned by the Queen of Svain.
expected at Gtbrallei, on the 12th uh, rH
were to embark for the United States. 4-
—The accounts continue to pour in of er
emigration from all parts of Europe to Au
Australia. Emigrants from Germany apilio
very much on the increase, On toe 15a m;
less than 5000 persons sailed from Merlin
—The Spanish government intend to
a small squadron of evolution in the Men
for the instruction of Spanish seamen.
—lt is stated that another searching er r
is to Go dispatched to Alelvitle
view of meeting that already in Behri:4sStnt.
—Gen. Roaas, family and anire3
town, Ireland, in her Majef•ty's ship Coatix!
16th of April.
—Marshal Gerard died in Paris on II"'"? !•te ,
He had been for eiolneen hours preoPJ - eg
death in a gate of unconsciousness: but
bers of his family remained by his be,i
had breathed his Inst. Marshal Gerard re
eightieth pear. He is the fourth M3r 4 tul
France has lost during the last fe , -: moatta
Sebastiani, Nlarmcmt, preceeded him mat
vale to the grave.
BURNING OF A HINDOO W (FE The C el'
Tishman says :
"The night of the first of this year vi
one of those fearful tragedies, to the cur ,
of which the philanthropists both in
Lila. proudly point as one of Lord Wilharz
inck's crowing acts in the cause of haulm..?
following is pretty near the fact : The Ita?
at Patchele on the let of January, at aben
a wild cry was raised by the women nj
na, that the Rajah was dead : this was ';Nr
ed, and a guard placed at some distance
rr
rajbarry. On the death of tire Rajah hem:
known to the heir, he proceeded to the
ofhis mother, received the ticca. and MV
enjoy his dignity, for that her mind Was mi l
The present Rajah left his mother•and sa
more. A pile was hurriedly made svabint
cincts of the ryjbarry. At about 10 oseic
umes of smokt told that he bon cusio: ,
house was being carried out. The R w ee
seven times round the pyre and Mei) threw
from some blocks of wood into the does
had been lighted for that purpose. Merit`
vulsive struggles to escape, her ri,hesnlinl;'
those - of her idiotic husband, who d lete:add
life. The farce of sending a Ion:: proeew
we,' said to contain . the body of Itie Rajah
sick wife, was then earned out. They n.
to react' Cutwa at a convenient War of :lit
burnt some woad, made sonic r
some informaion to the police The sx . k
was to have proceeded to ing , _:ernaut
sii
hut the Suttee having got di inn, thedatter
not he carrried out, and it hcc.idde nec
personate the Ranee. which in ; 6
the person of Suirat Robe. to the r. snit
the subordinate official!'
THE CLAY ° MICD.II. which was gOlerl
possession of Miss Lynch has been
new one, which was presented to Ni: i L.'
Saturday last. This now nie.l.ll pree.lell`
to the one lost t.
- having been s:rock irorn
dies. Some s li g h t i m perfections in the forr
been entirely avoided in this, by g'ivit:l'. 1 1
er number of blows in the press. Tlus'
dered the impression more kits:met and Iht
sharper: The bas relief 01 this modal is
to be higher than any one nf,w e vant.
oast ieekksing the medal has the same dr
graved oil it as was the farmer ; t heove.
er, is much more exquisitely wroui.tillo,:
finished. ; liihere is the old
amore
question, Who {lto !'"l' ! ' c '
answer
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