W.,r4o.lw_giev.l.M.l:,.'
Free Sell, Free Speech, Free Alen
Preinfehry ter' Fre* Territory.
E 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
Towanda, Saturilay,, a y 1552
soa camit I).,[Ntieslasin.
SEARIGHT, of Fayette county
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The Presldespw.
The great dearth of news jive now, has given ns
an opportunity, which we gladly embrace, to copy
an excellent article from the Leming Post, upon
the sulject of the next Presidency. At a time when
this subject has become peculiarly interesting, the
views of the Post, representing, as it does, the feel
ings of the radical and true Democracy Ot the State
of New YOrk, are worthy of consideration. The
attempt which was made in 1848 to a do without
New York," will hardly :be repeated in the coming
conted,and it behooves candidates, and the wire
workers generally, to pay due respect to the great
body of the New York Democracy, who prefer
princitiles before spoils, and will not submit to tests,
or the interpolation of new doctrines into their creed.
Terms Expired.
The term of the ('!lowing Senators expired wil
the late session
Dorocam--Thomas S. Vernon, Philadelphia
county ; Charles Frailey, Schuylkill county _ ; Hen
ri4'ulton, York county ; John W. • Guernsey, of
Tinge, Potter, [[!'Kean, Elk, Ciearfield — and JefFer
aori ; J. Y. Jones of Montgomery ; Henry A. Muff-.
lenberg of Berke county; lVm. F. Packet of Cen
tre, Lycoming, Sullivan and Lehigh.
Wuras—Wm Ilaslett of Butler, Beaver and Law
rence ; Benjamine Malone of Bucks ; John H. Wal
ker of Erie and Crawford.
Judge WoodwaTd,
The following is the r eortesponicnce that took
place between Governor Bigler and G. W. Wood.
ward, Egg , in relation to the appointment of Mr.
Wooiward to a place in the,Supreme Our, of the
State :
ETECtrirE C lIA MISER
Harrisburg, April 21, 1852.
Hon GDIiZGF: W. Woonwsair—Dear Sir
view of your high character as a citizen and emin
ent attainmeris as a lawyer ; I have conceived it
to be my duty to tender to_ you, a.. I now do, acorn
mi‘sion as Judge of the Supreme Court, in the room
of the lion Richard Coulter, deceased. With senti•
mews of high regard, k remain, dear sir, yours
truly, . WNI BIM ER
Wn.xcsnment, May, 4, 1552
RIP Escti.t.vascr. Sir
:
Your polite note of the 27th ult., tendering me a
commission ns Judge of the Supreme Court, in the
room cut the lion. Richard Coulter, deceased, has
been received. On a review of all the - interests
and circumstances connected wi.h this appointment
I feel it to be my duty to accept.
I beg you to accept, dear sir s my thanks for the
confidenle implied in appointing me to so import
ant a trust, and my assurances also, that while I
enter upou the exercise of it with great diffidence,
shall—whatever tine it may be continued in my
hands—spare no efforts to fulfill it faithfully. lam
with great regards your obedient servant,
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CortvENTlON.—The de
mocracy of the city of Blltimore have appointed a
committee of arrangements, crrisireing of seven,
for the national convention. This committee have
established their quarters at the Eutaw House,
where communications -may be sent to them until
after the session of the convention. The Hall of
the !Heehaws Institute, in which the convention
will meet, will hold seven thousand persons. it
platform will be erected at the south end of the Halt
large enough to hold the members of the conven
tion and the representatives of the press. The del.
egates to the convention will be tarnished with
tickets, and will be admitted at the door of the Hall
on Second street. The public will be admitted at
the main entrance on Baltimore street. The galle
ries wilt be appropriated exclusively to the ladies,
and such gentleden as may accompany them.
Mammies Cots.—A new species of counterfeit
et gold dollars are now coming "into very general
circulatior.—business-men should be on the lookout
The Ledger thus describes the manner of their man
ufacture : rr The piece by some fine amd ingenidus
machinery, is split in two, about one hall of the
coin abstracted, and the plundered sides stuck to
gether again, the face of the piece not the least scar
ed or injured. A little care will readily detect the
fraud. The milling around the edge will be found
broken, and very generally a pewter-colored cement
may be obserled protruding from it. The coin too
is thin in-the middle."
Joust "'Sutra, of Tioga County, has been engag
ed, during the•present week in holding a Special
Court at this place, for the trial of causes in which
Judge Wri.stwr bad.been engaged.
Gee. Score—Doer Show.—The New York Ex
press, treating of the Presidency, says: "We re•
peat that it is our deliberate, 'sober conviction, that
if Gen Scott be run blind—as the schemers in
Washington now intend to have him run—Vet ,
ment will be the only electoral vote he wilt have
tor the Presidency."
try- The first mad dog of the season was tilled
an Friday in Broadway, N. Y., where tE created
quite a panic among pedestrians. kis said that he
loaned upon a gentleman who was passing him,
and bit him severely in the hand. •
ft:r EACH: county in. Mlaware has unanimously
instructed her delegates for Gen. Casa, and the
Gazette-accordingly pladed hie name at the - head of
the paper as a candidate of the Democracy of the
State.
A Commune of the Virginia Legislature has re
ported against the adoption, of the Main liquor
Law.
- THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
bp* ntlonc . .ll . bich 40 rect*mcititi c
. alltlidttles
: about reeeli'M 1 Olfs . k bero4 t
the; pPertzot Mir apmectsliti-parly *flip' nti*l
e:i.3
A - at enlla teki ection, - ,,i i Itliii Mi , lit at Ilittlitritire.r!
ileitijar theiiarmonlrhf iti;;;:iieliberailiutti is iikely.
to. *xi dietutbed by,spont*etsiest,citiee contestiod
.xealk - it is - not yet prtiAiblellf - determitie, but it it
pretty clear that if any occur they will not originate
with therierthern states,. fur no spats are to , be con.
te‘tiadliord ilk ginirter ttilei . UitiiiiinliitiitY
sal feeling among the mass of the de:eg net.,
Prim, the sown, double deluge nitz have been al.
ready elected in several jittitances by the Stale
Melts democrats on ille — otte hand, and . by - tht.
Unionists- or. , the other. jrke i tatter clasp cousisteol .
men belonging to b;tis the 'great' political ;parties,
who have agreed to make the compromise meas..
ii Uri' Of the Nit tongresstiieinairitnoantresiorp o.
/meal orthodoxy, anti who are-tletermined • to sap•
port no man for the Presidency who is not rating
to give those measures in unqualified anti public
.approval. In determining to , which' of these clash.
-ea of. delegatea seats ought tube awarded; a bitter
and protracted discussion is-likely to arise. Upon
itii - ii•sue, perhaps Mine titan upon the candidate
who- may-be selecte.J, wilidepend the result of the
eh ction.
, ,_
~,
Arno time within our recollection have the dill
inciive and fundamental principles ot the dernoora
.
cy been more popular than now,, never, perhaps
was*the want or corifidence whip policy' and
in whig statesmanalitp moriiiniveraat: There is - a
s i enerai conviction among the more enlightened
and reflecting membersot both parties, that the_dea
tinies of this nation are safest • in . the hands of a
democratic governMent.
The g ronnds of this conviction are too °Weida
and too familiarto all OUT readers to need recapitu
lation. During the brief snpreinacy of the whigs at
Washington, the whole nation has been compelled,
more than once or twice; - to bow its head in shame.
Coirupiion has crept Eremite dens and-skelking-pta
ces, clothed itself in pt .pie and tine linen, and' be
come one of the coordinate branches of the govern
ment It enforces, in the halls of legislation, what
the President can only recoinmend ; it makes the
press speak or be amnia at its command ; it sits
upon the bench with the judges, and beside the
prosecuting attorney in the secret deliberations of
the Grand Jury ; it lilts up its brazen lace, unabash
-1 ed, in the' proudest circles, anti is not rebuked,
even where it is not conned: This is a condition
of things to which the Americana are not used
The mass of the people, even where they feel no
special interest in the (peahens of general legisla
lion upon which the great parties divide, know that
this is not right, and that, under a democratic 'ad
ministration, such abomina.tons have never been
witnessed to any such extent.
This conviction, perhaps, more than any other,
has begotten a general disposition throughout the
nation to have a democratic President at the head
.if the g overnment . And yet, with all these advan
tages, there is just ground for apprehending that the
democratic party will have to be disciplined by an
other tbur years service and endurance, before it
will be able to m:tlze such nf 'its principles as are
universal, paramount to doctrines which have only
a sectional acceptation,—before it will be properly
qualified to wisely guard the, common rights and
conflicting political interests cif this vast confedera
cy.
We will premise, then, that nq man can be elect
ed President by the people, who has to contend
with an organized section of his own party. The
rivals will either give an easy victory to their com
mon antagonist, or if there are two opposine b candi
dates, 'the election must inevitably be delivered
over to the House of Representatives. This is as 1
clear as that a straight line is the shortest distance
between two points.
In order that there should be no such • division, it
is necessary that no party tests sho Id be imposed
by or upon the candidates which w uld 'not be ac
ceptab e to a majority of the voters, therwise, and
of logical necessity, the party imposing them is in a
minority. Patties, it is true, often change, and new
gloctrines from time to time . incorporated - into their
several creeds, but the accession of numbers must
always be equal to the losses, or the party is weak•
ened and the creed too narrow for the nation.
is not the function of a party convention to in
culcate doctrine, but to reflect it. The people must
acquire the science of self-government from Other
sources, and it is the duty of their delegates in con
vention to represent that status of political wisdom
to which their constituency have attained, whatever
it be. if they transcend that function, besides the
risk of going wrong themselves. they are sure to
give strength to any opposing forces by making ad
versaries ol those whom time and reflection might
have made cordial - and efficient allies.
The soundness of these propositions, we presume,
will not be contested. Their application to the pre
sent condition of political aflairs is apparent. Among
the prominent candidates for the Presidency before
both the great parties of the country, there are those
who propose to rest their claims for support upon a
political lest, whir li the great mass of nei her can
cordially accept. Unqualified approval of the Com
promise measures ol the last Congress, " as a to
tality and a finality," are ['reclaimed by these gen
tlemen and their Wends, as a condition precedent
to their supporting or being supported for, or by any
political party for public office.
The impossibility of uniting the wliig party upon
any such narrow and proscriptive basis, long since
.1)( came apparent to the more clear-sighted of its
teatime, and they have already indicated an intert
lion to nominate a candidate who has neither sub
mitted himself nor is disposed to subject others to
any such test.
It has become pretty evident, we believe, that
GeneraiScon is far more likely than any other per•
son to receive the Whig nomination. While his
personal sentiments on the subject of slavery, so
I far as he has any, are satisfactory to the south, he
has never publicly declared that he would hold no
1 political communion, nor share the executive pat.:
,
ronage with those who entertain upon that subject
the prevailing opinions of the north. No secession-,
ist is deterred from supporting him through fear, no
free soiler Irom'pride. Both the one and the other
Can vote for him without humiliation, for they are
not required to recant their opinions or their eech
es, and -each is at liberty to hope that his influence
in the government ; will not be impaired by the one
or the other
Under these circumstances there is no good
ground for donbting that the whigs will be united,
and in a condition to make nearly, if not (ine, their
entire party strength available; it is equally clear,
therefore that it will require the entire strength of
their adversaries to defeat them. Neither party'for
many years hashed a majority of more than a small
fraction done per cent. upon the popular vote; it
is therefore, idle to suppose that either can °fiord to
alienate from its support, any considerable number
of its member'.
What is the duty of democrats under these cif
cemstances would seem to be very obvious, and
yet it is gravely proposed to apply to the party and
its candidate the same political test which the whips
,have wisely determined to repudiate. Candidates
are pressing and permitting themselves to be pres.
sed,for that nomination, who have declared that
ttey were willing to make all other political doe
tiMes and alliances subordinate to the Compromise
measures; and that they would neither give nor
take office, except the approval of those measures
was made One to the conditions.
We shot:11(1'1dd to discharge our duly as public
journalists, if we longer hesitate to express our con
viction that no candidate can be elected on such
terms at the approaching election. We would be
justified in basing this conviction upon the experi-
ence of the democratic pany at the last presidential
election k was then proposed in the national con
vention to make the views ol a portion of its mem
bers on the subject of slavery a test tat democracy,
and it was declared that the regular chosen dele
gates from New York. vseiWnot democrats, nor en
titled to a seat in that body; because they Believed
Congress possessed and ought to exercise the power
to prohibit slavery in the free territories of The Unit..
ed States.
The result of that foolish experiment the count 7
is familiar with. A . wbig candidate- who, in t le
strictest sense of the word, had no opinions - on pl.
Mica! subjects, and front whoita euppoit no section
of.ttis : any was alienated by the imposition of una.
inlet t wasiffMiZitt a time whetylrefitem?,,,
ratio iy eitisconfissedly in a larggltutelcippit
It re be titilet4gical to infer OK a tVenitliftig z
of epeperitneer'eietuld be attendairitb :equally
41sistnius reijnits, thlin to infer that 110 eflelts
1040 betteiriosuLtfof like causes. Vlcit oilithot*
tetturrhig 'Oast ealimities, let us loorist-giet coin
dition in which a Compromise candidate would
find himself placed at the approaching election.
inset-that
for the Compromise, is, that it is tolerated. One of
the most subservient and faithless'of.northern -rep.
resentatives has recently admitted on the floor of
Congress, that it was offensive to the free stateeand
,destrucuee to the prospects of . thei!, repro. ?
•sentatives who defend ;While 'very,
general clisposilion to acquiesce in its provisions
hielhe piistenritidToithey tivittianfitipetthigitieni,
it is Jifiictflt to arid a sjegle,individual who would
be willing to deelaiis, as 'the' dernocriiihi party is
now calfed' on- to declare r that 'Wrought not to be
altered or modified in some particulars ; that they
are icrbe deemed'even mote sacred than the' cim
• stitntion itself, and that no change of conditinwr ott
incteatelof light, no political progress-can be anflei-
paled, which will render it safe, and expedient, to
review a work which never received the approval
'of a majnrity of this Congress That edopted it, and
which has been pressed in vain far a period of near.
.ly five months for the approval ol the Congress that
,was,elected immediately after its passage. •
Distitstefnl and Oflensive as thierseheme oC legis
lation was to the north, at was even less tweeptable
to the south . Them it has eonvutsed binh•the great
parties ; and in many • slams ha. wholly
,thanged the political relations and affinities ,of the
people. Coalitions haie been formed between
whigs and democrats in opposition' to then regular
organization of their respective parties, and several
of the most table democratic - states of the south
and west are, in consequence, now represented in
Congress by whip. •
it is the:very madness 'cif the moon to "Oppose
that those who have been the victims of this disloy.
al strategy, will kiss the rod which has smitten
them, or that the Compromise has been made any
more acceptable by the sacrifices which have been
experienced in resisting it.
The Maths bring us this morning from Washing
ton, a fetter written by Mr Forsyth, an influential
ionnutlist in Georgia, which we have thought wor
thy of being transferred to en: columns. In it he
says "the democratic party is hopelessly divided,
it (about the compromise,) and that tact mist be
" recognized by the Baltimore Convention in laying
" down its platform and putting up its eandidates.
a If it does not, it takes no prophet's voice to tell
the consequences."
Will those who, like ourselves, have kept their
eyes upon the soathem journals almoscdaily for the
past year, the statement of Mr. Forsyth will need
no confirmation.
The fact is, and it is folly to attempt to disguise
what history has already made an everlasting rec
ord of, that the Compromise measures was enacted
by the Executive and not by the people, and they
have since held their place upon the statute-book,
at least a part of them, by the same tenure. They
never have received and never will receive the
sanction of a majority of the American pcople.—
There is a party in the tree states and n party in the
slave states who, for different reasons, perhaps, but
with none the kss determination, will resist any ut
tempt to extort a confession that the Compromise
was a soecimen either of wise or necessary legisla
tion, and who will never consent to declare direct•
ly, by resolnik'ns or indirectly by their votes,, that
its provisions are j36;•ond improvement.
Any one who will prett:Lid that a candidate has
any chance of an election, in ti,,7 present political
condition of the country, who has to contenzi with
these hostile forces, must either have some lights
which do not shine upon our, understanding, or Le
must dwell in outer darkness.
In the first place such candolaA sure to lose
New York. The state that transferred more than a
halt of the votes of the democratic party from the
nominee of the Baltimore Convention to a candidate
who was not presumed to have any chance of an
election, merely as a protest against the imposition
of an unj st and oflenrive political test, will not be
likely to lend every energetic support to a ct ndi
date whose election would impose a test equally
unjust and equally offensive.
It will require the entire strength of the demo
cratic party in its moat harmonious activity to defeat
General Scott in the state of New York. Neither
that strength nor that activity could be obtained for
a candidate who occupies a position which would
compel him, if he kept faith with his friends, to pro
scribe those who wanld not forswear their opposi-
tion to the compromise, and accept it as a total and
a final ndjnstment of all slavery issues. There istoo
much pride and self reapect, to say nothing, of other
virtues, among the democrats of New York, to per
mit them deliberately to vote themselves into coy
entry, or to place in the hands of their enemies a
weapon with which-to beat out their own brains
Those whose interest in political matters springs
purely from their ambition or from their necessities,
will promptly perceive the importance of keeping
their most vindictive enemies—and there are no
enemies more vindictive than the rival factions of
an inharmonious party—disarmed, while those
whose interest is 01 a more elesated character will
prefer that if mischief is to be done, the responsi
bility and the dishonor of it, should not'attach to the
party with wbich they are accustomed to act.
To what extent this feeling would affect the dem•
ocratic vote it is not necessary at present to venture
an opinion; that it would be enough to defeat the
democratic candidate by a most significant majori
ty, no one at all acquainted with the character or
with the present feeling of the New York democra
cy can doubt far a single instant.
In Missouri we need hardly say that a Comprom
ise candidate would have even fewer chances of
success than in New York. The r?anlar demo
cratic party in that state have made an issue against
it at their elections and have driven those who from
personal ends, desired it to be sustained, into the
embrace of the whips. Too weak in numbers to
act alone, they coalesced with their naturalenemies
to prevent the electiontot„an opponent of the com
promise, to the United States Senate.
It is not likely that the animosities aroused in this
comparatively recent strife will be quieted by again
tendering the root of bitterness which provoked
them. We greatly mistake the public sentiment of
Missouri if two-thirds of her regular democratic
voter could be secured to a Compromise candi
date. -
In Ohio, the whig party is perfectly enited • and
enthusiastic for Scott. The free soil and anti-com
promise section of the democracy, is large and in
fluential. in a normal condition of politics, the
state can' hardly be esteemed democratic, but no
democratic candidate who does not command the,
cordial and undivided support of his partycan have
any chance for emcees,. General Scott would de
feat any Compromise candidate die could be nom
inated, by at least twenty' thousand majority, end
probably by more
Pennsylvania will never support a candidate who
it is known in advance, cannot obtain the vote of
New York. The social and political sympathy be
tween the citizens of the two states would of itself
discourage any effort of the one, to get along with
a presidential election, without the support of the
other.
If this were otherwise; the result would be all the
same. There was a sufficient large and influen- -
tial party in Pennsylvania in favor of the Jeffersoni
an ordinance, in 1849, to defeat_ Gen. Cass; their
numbers have not been diminished by the subse
quent administration of the Fugitive Slave law
within her *der& Again, there is a tend, of no
ordinary bitterness, now waging between the friends
of Mr. Cass and Mr. Buchanan, which would be
ore-to give the state tothe whiter in the case of the
nomina 101 l of either. On the other hand, General
Scoit receivedhis first legislative nomination from'
Pennsylvania.. The whig party will be united in
his vapport. The least defection, therekire. in the
ranks of the democratic party, would certainly be
fatal there, while great doubtuney well
. Ise enter,
tamed whether .any candidate , we can nominate
could succeed. -
We have enumerated four states, which reilmaint
over ninety volesinthe elietoinicoliege,and which
have been mall counted upon as democratic
liWthekliim , 'Wratiortlfrtain t vote
agailast ahy Cap _ . idigli that be
t rio
nonsinatpa r i by elm ,:ino i ce
it *open ;situ* t ' do of the t In.
tioriii'thers P ent:haß 'lel whiMitt Itiit
receive die su ppo rt df at - east, T itb it
of there; a
ti t
ouius.ther-tWo was ilinlyi lithaNtiluiv-Yerk
Pennsylvania. .
But defection.almostu serious may be anticipa
laiffihesentlo-11irginieliflute.ittiFirin—vtatu
has declined to endorse the Compromise. Florida
also , remained 4ilent., :Foote of Mississippi, has
been defeated in his attempt to get back to the Sen.
ate on-the Compromise is rue.-; Smith Carolina has
Bone as,tar as tihrt, ayec_wilt g 0,,, toward ~ a seam.
'ion frrithillie 'Ado% betanse Ithi.dientodithe Cord
promise a violation of her constitutional rights.--
totaianall - repreuenrert brorterenritomproiise
winatur, and Alabama by„ two• cuhent of.. the awe'
complexion. , •
All these males are repine 3 to ber&inoetatielitifes
1 but the nomination of a •Cornpurniie 'candidate at,
1 Baltimore would at once sort disseneiona ;Wronging
them, from which the party would not recover for!
There may be Wise whit think cre haiti iniduThei
respects exaggerated thes , uengthrof the opposition
on which witrberrnade to any. auempt to incorpor
ate this new tenet,into, die democrwic creed.. We
think we have not, but whether
. we,have or no,
have" we' mit prodiced'inough eneleeptionable and
.conclusive reasons to rehowOhat such an attempt
must inevitably be- followed by idisaster..aod de.
feat.—New York Evening Post.
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Law relatlng,to ,Hawkers and red.
tens In Ilradrord County.
• /he tolfewingii* was passed bylhe Legislature
'or Pennsylvania at its last- cession
I . Stein:re V. That from and after' the pasiage of
this.ect,-no person or perronsehall sell, or expose
to sale as a Hawker or Pedlar or travelling Mer
chant, in the county of Bradford, any watches or
gold, sillrer or plated ware, finder the penalty
. ot
' fifty dollars - for each and - every . offence, to he in
flicted in the manner provided for in the set of.
April sixth one thousand eighttuntirea . and thirty
three„ entitled "A' Supplement to the Act of regot
biting Auctions in the City of Lancaster and other
towns of this Commonwealth" passed'the 7th day.
of April 1831: • • --
Stenos 3-. That the provisions of the Act passed'
the 6th day of . February 1830, -entitled" An Act
regulating Tin and dock Pedlers" are hereby ex
tended to Hawkers and Peilleurof Stoves, within the
county of Bradford, and all the provisions of said
Act are hereby extended to Hawkers and Pedlers
of Stoves within said county as fully and; amply- as
if persons concerned io said business or eniploy
ment were apeeifically mentioned in said Act with
this change only, that the sum to be paid fore li
cense shall be fifty dollars.
Scenes 4. That no peraon for whom provision
is not made by existing !ewe relating 'to Hawkers
and Pedlers, shall employ himself or be concerned
in the business or employment of hawking or ped
ling of any goods, wares or merchandise of any
kind whether foreign-or domestic, Within the COM
' l'irlifirradford, without having previously obtained
a Licen se so to do as hereinafter provided, and any
person not being- licensed as required by this act
who shall barfound hawking, peddling or travelling
from place to place through any, part of said county,
to sell or expose for sale, any foreign or domestic
gcods, wares or merchandise of any kind, shaft be
liable to a fine of fifty dollars, to be recovered• and
applied in the manner provided by the first section
of an act reg ulating Tin and Clock Pedlers, passed
February Gh 1830.
Scenes 5. That the Clerk of the Court of Quar
ter Sessions of said county of Bradford, is hereby
a l g.horised to grant licenses to extend to said coun
ty, for oze year under the seal of said Court, for
the purposes .Joresaid for which there shall be paid
for the use of the Crirnmonwesith for a license to
travel with one horse and wagon or other vehicle,
fifty dollars. With two horses and wsiron or other
vehicle sixty dollars. Provided thsi hawkers,, Ped
lers or traveling dealers inicSpn,ituotis or Mali li
quors, shall pay ten per cent rn addi'ion to the
amount required for a license to other hawkers and
Pedlers.
THE HOMESTEAD bill, which passed
the House of Representatives yesterday, provides,
Ist, that any person who is the head of a family
and a citizen of the United States or any person
who is the head of a family and had become a citi
zen prior to the Ist day of January, 1852, as requir
ed by the naturalization laws of the United States
'shall, from and after the passage of this act, be en
,
-titled to enter free of cost one quarter section of
vacant and unappmpriated public lands, or a quan
tity equal thereto, to be located in a body,: in con
formity with the regal subdivisions of the public
lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed.
2d. The person applying for the benefit of the
act to make an affidavit that he or she is the head
of a family, and is not the owner of any estate in
land at the time of such application, and has not
disposed of any estate in land.to obtain the benefit
of the act.
3d section refers to the duties of the Land Regis-
4th. All lands acquired under the provisions of
the act shall in no event become liat le to the satis
faction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the
issuing of the patent therefor.
sth. If at any time after filing the affidavit re•
quired, and before the expiration of five years, it
shall be proven that the person locating on such
lands shall have changed his or her residence, or
abandoned the said entry for more than six months
at any one time, then the land to revert back to the
government, and be disposed of as other public
lands are now by law.
; Bth. If any individual, now a resident of any
state or territory, and not a citizen of the U. S., but
at the time of making application for the benefit of
.the act shall have filed a declaration of intention so
to do, as required by the naturalization laws of the
'United States, and shall become a citizen of the
same before the issuing of the patent, as made and
provided for in this act, he shall be placed upon an
equal footing with the native•bom citizens.
7th. No individual is permitted to make more
than one entry under this act.—N. Y. Evening Post.
Amanita VMTORT.—We bad the pleasure last
week to announce the failure of the Pennsylvania
Bank to secure from the Legislaturicnotwithstand
ing the formidable force thaLwas brought to bear in
the shape of borers and money,—the exemption
impudently applied for. his with more than ordi.
nary feelings of pleasure that we now record its
fate before the judiciary. The case was tried last
week before Judge Pieraon;of the Dauphin Coon.
ty Court, and, alter listening attentively to three
day' pleading, on the part of counsel, decided that
the State was justly entitled to the tax on the divi
dends of the Bank. Thus, the State has been sac.
ed the large sum of 172,0 00.
For thi; triumph we have to thank an independ.
ent and tncorraptib% judiciary. It is fortunate that
there are branches of this government, above the
reach of hirelings who would'teson to any means,
however diabonorable, to accomplish their ends.—
Sooner, or later, justice will overtake those who were
in the service otihe bank. Mark the prediction.
DECISION IN THE Tnurtaron CASE—NEW Tam
GRANT= !,-As we stated some months , ago would
be the cdselibe Supreme Court of the 6th Judicial
District, now in session` at Morrisville, Madison,
County has wanted . a new trial in the case of The
People sem. John M. Tiuwalon. The opinion of the
Court had ;tot been pronounced in open Court,
when our informant left, but the ground on which
the Court base their decistan,.is understood to be
the enter of the Court below in-admitting the evi•
.dense of Dr. Eastman, on the question of the sanity
or insanity of the prisoner, as an expert, when lie
had not heard all the testimony in the case:'
•
It is expected that a special Court olOyer and
ermine! will be aPpointed to try Thurston=proli.
ably in the Counts of Cheming'`ot. Tompkins !
Owes° Gilts.
Later i trout Calltiords.
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corresponuens or Jar Tuner a rrmsen ,
writting from Godfrey's Rancho in South Valley,
'givessikefollewinikdeleile.Oki4elitUhPulagteliti.
Another - battle' was fought on Klamath River, be
tween the miners and the Indians, on the morning
of the 12th of this month.
Yesterdayi was informed - by a miner of my ac.
quaintance, just op limn It lamath, at an Indian
tratieferiallheatentilpiairiValley, It' miles below
'Mott 'Rivet 'the stotincid;atid 40 Indians killed, and
4heir..bOassUlborned to.thevonnil.„ , <•:;,:„ ~,, ,-„
The Klamath Indians, for a distance of 40 miles
below the mod% of Rolf River, have-teen , lot a
long time very hostile ami , troablesometothe- rein.'
cream) packers . ' i ,
,_, , 1 - .• on, • 1 • ri_-
At Happy Camp,'ichich,is eitaateikt,weelk Mils”
- below'Seisil Valley , the miners pitie,d a Istir be.
lotion themselves, that no Indians. ahoeld be :dhow
-eel to (Mate to•that place; iffther did they were,:to
.be shot instantly. WhenllieindianAgent, McKee
passed .up this riter and formed a treaty , with these
Inchatuc thi'minersinforthed him of the liti ttiliidh
they Narmada tar 'the protection against Indian
depredations. Mr. McKee communicated this -to
- the Indiana. Last January an ,Inthim from .. Seiad
Valley said he,was not afraid to go down to Hapsy
Camp, and doWn ge ethited;" and no soonef had - he
arrived there, than he tfaishot' dead wfiife crossing
the creek, near the camp last week the Indians
made preparations to fight the miners. The ST:taws
started for Scutt Valley, and tie Irnhaes sent word
down to the Happy Cams miners that they were
going td kill three of their men, for the one they
had killed.: The Happy Camp miners, on healing -
this came up to Long Bar, joined by another party
and marched op in the night, and at early dawn
surrounded the Indian Rancheria. A number of
Indians stepped out of their houses and were instant
ly shot.
They set fire to the ranch and smothered out the
Indians. When an Indian would break from the
ranch, they would shoot him down. In this way
they shrit forty Indians, and not one escaped' from
•the rkneltefria. One'of these Indians had eight balls
shot throstgb 'his body before he fell to the ground.
Among all the dead there was only sine squaw
gland, and she was an Indian Chief's daughter.
Durirt the battle two white then' were shot' with
arrows; one of them was shotin thelhigh and the
other in the breast; the arrow passed between two
of bis ribs. Their wounds are not considered mor
tal. The men are now improving, and in a short
time will be able to 'resume their labiir. What'this
will end in, tinle"win determiner.
, The Scott River Valley reservation is of no effect
with the Indians. Klamath Indians say, that it was
not them who wanted to make a treaty of peace - it
was the white men. I am rather suspicions that
this will lead to further 'lndian hostilities and depre
dation!:
MINING 1; EWEN
Our files do not contain much of interest from the
mines. One writer says: _ -
Rich mines have been discovered
,in Rogue river
Valley. They are creek and 'ravine diggings. I
have seen a miner direct from there, and he inform
ed me that these Diggings are extensive. He ex
hibited some of the gold and it looked bright and
beautiful. He has gone back to the mines, Min
ers there are averaging from ten to sixteen' dol
lars.
There is great excitement: in Mount Shasta-city
and on Humbug Creek, consequent on the dis.
covery et these new and rich mities. I saw about
200 leave for Rogue river Valley on last Sabbath.
parties are leavinglown daily. Mules are selling
from $lOO to 8140 each. Rogue river Valley is
about an taken up by persons who intend to settle
permanently.
The Union says - that the cost of the Bear River
and Auburn Canal Company has already amounted
to an almost incredible sum. We are informed
by one of the stock holders that up to this time there
has been nearly 5250,09) i* cash expeenied'fin fit
hor performed, $12,000 of which was forwarded on
Saturday last. The investment, however, must in
the end prove a profitable one, as the canal' runs
through one of the richest sections of the mining
country, tir:d the total inabillity of miners to procure
water from any other source will compel them to
hire it of this company. We understand that the
canal will probably be completed by the middle of
May.
The finest specimen ever seen has been deposit
ed in Adam's Express office. It is solid gold, and
weighs 305 ox. 113 pwts. It Was dug, at Bayecito,
on The 24th ult , by W. L. Durham., from a hole 54
feet deep. This is the largest lump of pure gold
ever yet found in California.
Miners on Weber Creek are doing better then
ever. New diggings are discovered every day,
and from eight to sixteen dollars is the average yield
to the man per diem.
POLITICAL N CWP
Mr. Holden, Wingate to the Baltimore Demo
cratic Convention, cannot come on account of hiF
ill health.
Tne whole Whig Municipal ticket at Sacramento
is elected. C. I klutchineon, has• 266 majority for
Mayor; the other officers have nearly doubled that
majority.
Gov. Bigler has sent a special message to the
Legislature, proposing appropriations and proper
measures for the relief of the overland emigrants
who may be in the mountains.
RISC ZLLI NlOllll
The Land Commission has now been in session
for several months. Some one hundred and fifty
three petitions have been presented and placed on
the file,
and numerous depositions telatiie to tlte
same have also been taken. As 't et,, however, no
claim has' been finally adjudicated upon, and as far
as we know, but two orders for initiatory surveys has
been made.
There were two more afTiV3l3 on Sunday and
one onplonday from Hongkong—the Glenyon with
150, the Emperor with 'lBl and the George Wash
ington with 185 Chinese passengers—total 516,
whreh added to the 1126, before noted as having
arrived during the past fortnight, shows an addition
of 1642 Chinamen in little over two weeks. Many
more are on their way, while a whole fleet o
vessels was at latest dates raking in passengers at
Hongkong.
A series of camp meetings are about to be held
in this district. The first will be held near Sono
ma; the second at Santa Cruze; the third on. San
Jose Circuit; the fourth at Stockton. There will be
others in the mining district; one at Volcano
From every section of the mining conntty we
hear that the merchants are at present doing a fair
and profitable bnsiness. Communication with 'the
city was 90 effectually cut efl by the impassable
condition of the sloughs. the instruction of bridges,
and the shocking condition of the roads that the
interior had become Molest ex' Emitted. Mining
camps and water companies are now replenishing
their supplies, thereby creating great activity, not
only among country btu also city.merchants.
DISCOVEHT OD A Wits holsa.— r A short time since,
some of the surveyors engaged on the Panama Wa•
ter Works, discovered something in the 'shape of a
man sitting on the bank of a stream, a few miles
from Panama. • He was entirely naked, and had
very long blitc.k hair•. The party addressed him both
in Spanish and English, but he appeared to under
stand neither, and refusing any inteitOursti with
them, escaped intcithe wood, whets they wets en•
able to pursue him:
Ft/ROC:IOUP RICTZNGC —ln Waukegan yesterday,
a young lady named Warren went into the store of
D. S." Deirey, and threw, into his face and eyes two
ounces of oil of Cud. One eye is destroyed and,
the other isirmarablyinjured. Miss %V. has been
committed ict Erruson,,bat refutes to. retreat her me.
titre' RepOrt st ti that'slui Supposed him to have
made remark. derOgatirrir -to her ebareeter.—Nit
trauliellircomia. • - - •
-- --- AN ACT'
..i
To dividefor the immeduite. completion of file N en k t
r , rj, ,l' I i oldie Pennsylvania cavil. ...
:
.
' • io n p .• It enacted by the Senate and y am '
ati ea of the Commonwealth of p ee ,,,
didilia i 4, -natal As met and i s h ore ,
ed • -.:. .e authoritysembl of th y e
same, Th a i thecg a
letOtir oft '.,.- .mmonwealth be and is hereby ki ,
Vienna a ..rrow on the faith of the C omm, .
wealth, end of the revenud hereinafter mentioned
Intl,allkilik#o l ,-.:H .I.t.k—Ve° l 4°_...,. ~ L. 1 0,t-PlRlged foe do :
pnymenronner aircrew and re-payment Of trki l i r i n.
cipal, the tom 'of eight hunched and filly_ d ied ,„,
ennui*, and issue cenilidratel—Cli Blau theref or' 7;
deemable in thirty 3 ears from died, to be paid ei ;
did iiiiiiiiiar improvement (Ur i& tippriiritlided l e I ,_
expenditures under this act ; the said loan to b e ;
interest at a rate not ex.leedu.g aliper seat per 45 ,.
ilunlyloo l4 4-)Jall4f..4o ll ,!•Pg e e- on thl! , grin d i
I of January and rely, to to teiniedibilVatai4
I' Canal Loan. , , 1 ...., , -• ,
Section .--othit , there stall 6e ahrlualo sei .„
by the commissioners otutbe internal imptrorei-e;?
fund the f re vesuie, _actor mg $1,1n.14 -said canal k od
• ond glee th e rtasedgetibthis'itit-fOi the pay o f
the interest and final liqudation of the debited,
authorizedHaud it shall be the duty of said comb o .
sioners atter payiht die interdict annually, to inset
the surplus together Wittritr accumulation of m ew
in the said loan or any other loan of the commas,
wealdr,;if said loan.crrnrl9o l e.rlichaoci ra its p ar
value, the said investment to form a sinking t ri o
for the redemption - okthe principal at matuitty
Imp LOAN BILL
Passed May 3d, etndApproved May 4th, 1832.
Section 101 —That the Governor and State Trey,
urer be and they' are hereby' atlthortzed and eta.
povreredin borrow, oil the faith of the &mm o.
wealth, during theyear one thousand eight hsndasy
and fifty.two, atsucb times and in such amounts
they may deem best for the interest of the Sate
any sum not eicieding file of dollars, sal
issue bonds of 16e Commonticalth for' did same,
bearing a rate of in tenet JIC4 eiceediog flirt> nerd
per annum„ payable somi.anonallY; which bonds
shall not be subject to taxation for any ppm
whatever, and shall be reimbursable in ; linty-fire
years from their date; and the sum eo hominid
shall be applied to then payment et the six per cent
loans that are payable tithe option ofthe Common.
wealth after the year one thousand eight latadred
and forty.six and forty seven, listhe cancellation of
the certificates issued to domestic creditors and the
I outstanding and unclaimed interesteeni fi eates,
manner maner 'hereinafter provided. And the ba:anits
of said five millions shall be applied to; the Win.
g ui s hment ol any of the five per cent. bonds of the
State now outstanding and for no other purpose.
Section 1 12 —That the bonds for said loan shelf
be issued in some of either one thousand, firs
thousand. or ten thousand dollars each, with coal.
pons or interest certificates attached in sums equal
in a m oast to the sem i• annuat mtelest %mon, wlucE
certificates shalt be redeemable in gold and silver,
or an eqiiivalent, on the first days of February and
August in each and every year, at such places is
may be desig nated by the Governor and Slate Tim
urer ; and su rf officers shall procure the ingrarinp
for such bonds and certificates, add cause the same
to to sin ned arid conntereigned as hereafter directed
and take sneb n other steps as may be nereesaty to
carry out the true intent and meaning of this act.-:
And the Governor is; hereby authorized to dray
warrants ow the State iTreasurer for such some
may be necessary to pay the proper expenses incl.
dent oaths negotiation- of such loan, and the mist
warrant shalt be paid out of any moneys in the
treasury. -
Secnon....lo3,—That—the-State_ Treasurer gal
advertise for at least two months in one newspape r
in Boston, one in New York, and one in Plailaarl.
phia, and-one papelia Ltindoni, one hiAresterdia
and one in Pans. in Eerope, inviting sealed props
cats for the loan herein authorized, or any part
thereof; which proposals shall state the price in
tended to be paid in gold and sliver, or its equ i es ta l
by the bidder for each thousand dollars of selt
loan; and at noon on the day appointed for that
purpose the State Treasurer and Auditor Generale
the presence of the Governor and Secretary of the
Commonwealth and of such other persons is may
attend, shall proceed to open said proposals and
lot the loan to the highest and best bidder or tel.
ders, whereupon bonds shall be issued to the person
or persons entitled to said loan as herei
11 .01T prorid
ad, which bonds or certificates of loan shall be ago-
ed hyf the State Treasurer and Auditor General, aid
State Treasure( shall sign or authorize said en
pans or" certillCates of interest to be signed; Peril
ed, That in'tneking proposals for the loan whom
ed by this son the holder or holders of any of the
bonds of the Cots ntonwealth of certificates for iner.
est, and the holders of domestic creditor certificate
shall be authorized to bid for•any part of said tin
to the full amount of such certificate or certificate
together with the unpaid interest thereon :Proried
also, That at the time of mak Mg proposals fur the
said loan, applications may be made for any yet
thereof, at interest of four pet cent at a less es,
upon condition that the loan shall be for a gram
period and not exceed thirty-five years, exempiter
taxation, with the interest thereon paya'oe sernian
ally. the GOvernor is hereby authorized and ter
ered to entertain and carry into effect such yaps.
lion. should he deem it advisable for the best min ,
ests of the Commonwealth ; Provided furfAn,lll::
the notice to be issued in Europe for the pr pool'
shall precede the notice in this country at teem
month.
Sectiose 101. That immediately after the irte, .
tiations of the loans herein provided for, 'he SA'S
Treasurer shall give notice in one newspaper c
Boston, one in New York, and one in Fhiladeipla
to the holders of all certifica'es of loan then doe.
and to the holders of certificates issued to dome se
tcreditors, to present the sane at his nffice aalr•
ristturg, or at such place as he may descrs . e
Philadelphia, for final payment ; and case sal
holders shall refuse or neglect to surrender live.
nficates aforesaid, the interest theleen shad rev
to be paid by ihe Slate within six iv dal s the:lN
of payment fixed in such notice ; Provided.
shall be lawful for the Governor and State Trost
er, in addition to gold and silver, to receive or ,
in payment for the loan herein authorized a
the bonds of the state, domesiiecreih!or rertriezo
and the certificates issued for unpaid interest
certificates of loan paid and cancelled under thrive
visions of this act after having been copied to'
book to be kept in the ettfice of the State Treads
for that purpose, shall be destroyed by the 53 !
Treasurer and Auditor General in the presence: ,
the Governor and Secretary of the Commonve .
SErnorit 105. That when the loan provided ;
this act shall have been negotiated, and the ino
edness cancelled as aforesaid it shall be theduly°
the State Treasurer to ascertain as near as pc l s -4f
the aggregate amount of interest saved In the Cr ,
monwealth by the provisions of this art. ssentscs'
ed with the interest now paid, deducting all cotav
' gent expenses ; and shall at the time of making
next semi annual payment 01 interest, and Fero'
annually thereafter, pay over to the commissiece e
of the sinking fund a sum e.tuat to the awe!
saved ; and all premiums waich may be 0 0 *
under the provisions of this act and atl withal
balances if any shall he also paid over to there;
misstoners of the sinking rued. to he applied 0 ,11
Cancellation of the poi& debt in the „ me maga
that all other receipts to that fund are applied.
Stcmosi 106. That the Governor and Sure Titre
urer be and they are hereby cutlicnireil and es._
powered to issue certificates of loan in the alw ic ,
and form provided for in the foregoing secti w
this net, reimbursable at a perhal not eareeil
thirty-five years from their date, to any and
of a
,encla holders of the five per cent loan of the ea"
naooweatth as may signify their willingners it ;
eeive new certificates of loan bearing rim inlet
funs percent ors less tate per annum, (genr e ,'
from taxation,' with coupons or interest errrttW
attached, payab'e semi-annually in d o h goldro ' 1
and they shall further have the right to give ':
eessary notice and take such other steps lig maY „
proper to accompti‘h the true intent and roan
of this section ; and it shall be the duty of the w .
detailed Statement of the
:Treasurer to communicate to the nest Lettubl ld 7, l ,
ilicriingrhe• bids received for the loan, the 02:
of the parties making such ' bids, and inch
,matters 1111, may be deemed inietestiq and la e " .
roceedings under Ns:
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