PITTSBURGH GAMTTE .PI7BIASUED HT tilllll3, & CO J:INFARY 25,1851 ..' .EXTEN , • IOX Or Tat MONO MIA ELA SLCKITATIitt - Inegovzsinsr.—ltisdoubtlesS itt.the recollection' of most, of our readers, that the Leknalature of • Virginia has pawed a law granting "a char,ter. to -- . . Company to build a Slack Water Navigadon on -aloe river, fromFairmont,twhere , : the Ilaltimore and Ohio Raif.road crost , C4 that ' • stream, to the Pennsylvania State line: and thit ,lii. thinact the State has agreed to take three ' fifths of the amount -of stock necessary to corn .. plete the work, an neon as the other two-fifths .. are raised by private enbscriptions. The sum • necessary to complete the work is about $20 0 ,- 000—leaving $BO,OOO to be i nisad to secure the old of the State in — the wt. We' ave now t . fate slack water improvement to Brownsville; and we believe the companytowning the improve .; ment are 'willing to complete it to the State " line; to that all that is necessary to secure, a , 1 steamboat navigation to Fftirmfint. open at nil I -.. . seasons of tlie7.ear, is to rsim• n sum sufficient 1, to secure citedi.arter and fthe three-fifths from l' - ' the State of Vhinia,_ There is mime danger, 1 ' howcier that, the extremely favorable charter, r ' . 'ffolia. Virginia will be last unless it is secured by the requisite private subscriptions itamediL ~ , ately,, as the Convention to Reform the State i -Constitution. which is now in session , will prob. 1 only ,Incorprate into the now Constitution a • clause preventing the Sta id hereafter from sub ,. scribing to the stock of any Company. If the tharter. is not secured befiiro the new Constitu tion Is adopted, it will folkt3 the ground, nod I the .conditional three-fifth subscription will be 1 " ... lost. ' I ' In order to lay the whole matter properly be fore the people of. Pittsbuigh, who are deeply i - -interested in this improvement, a special meet 'ing.of the .11:fiftyl of Trade, are undestand, will be '. .' . held this everting, at 'which', time A. J. O'Biszos, . , F. 54., will be present to plane the whole matter •••• Inn proper light before our citizens. We trust ' '',• he will have a large audience, and a favorable . -- !Arming - • .: • -_; ' , it!. unnecessary for us to. add any thing in ' - :nrelation to the importance Of this work to Pitts -•• "burgb.. Those who lsow not thing of its get,- . graphical relations to thin city, lire aware that it will ppm up to us a very extensive and produc .. tiv33 . eituntry, and greatly increase our trade and • commerce with Western Virginia. CAINE LAD ITS PIASPILKENT. • . . is admirable success which attended the ef- I Ports Hof the police of Allegheny city in breaking 1 1 up ri4ang of couriterfeitonss and putting them in way of meeting their just deserts, and also capprehending depredators; upon the property of their' neighbors, is a niatter, of sincere gratula • I The.commission of criminal offences of almost 1 . every kind, has for some time been alannimay frequent. Now, however, we may hope fur a , better state of things. , The present is a time which calls for a'nevelle administration of justice, not in the spirit of vindictiveness, but that the terror of the law may restrain the vicious, wheth er iri•depredations upon the property of the citi zees, or in disturbalaces . of the peace. , It 'iv not for us to dictate to those who have been chosen to administer justice; hut we may :be permitted I express our approbation of the evidently skim determination of the proper uu .thorities to punil . b crime severely; and we may, see think, further express the hope that the per cloning power will be used with great discretion: I The signing of petitions for pardon iv oftl) - ratherun not of easy, unreflecting good nature, than the result of a clearlconvietion of right and , ditty. So far a 5 it is what we hove intimated, it is•wrAng. It inspires hope wherethere ought to 'be none, and it places the executive of the SPlte in a painfal . diletams, here pre men whom he' lmows and respect, asOng for what he knows -he aught not to grant. In g:errai terrns, , we ask him to he firm. 'and permit the penalty of the law to be folly dealt out; but inputilcuiar terns, we' ask the opposite. ',Lt is inconsistent, and ought not to he. Let us he firm in matterslof this kind, and we will have little cane to find ' fault-with the Governor. CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS - ' 1)t. Riddle in Ilia sermon' before the New England Society, took 4 :occasion to stigmatize iihnt ore usually known al the "Blue Laws of Connecticut," ns a eariCature. Bnt within a ' few days the /mom teems of the Commercial • Journal has undettukento defend the veracity of the historian through thous ..vre have been en lightened on that subject. a , . .• We had supposed that even here, the distinc tion between the actual legislation of Conncrtti • cnt and the famous code alluded to in Dr. Rid ' die's sermon, would he universally 1-e.envaitei. . . Hut it seems that we Ste supposed too much, 1 . - nod there is. atlemt, one man f 0 ignorant, as to coufotml these things, and so 'reckless as to ex- Pose his ignorance by publication, and try to ' helster it by atipority. • "', 'The Blue Laws of Connecticut," technically and familiarly so called, are a suppositions • :code, in which the rigidity and severity of pori • ttunkeslation; of which De Tocqueville gives 1 spccinfn, are caricatured. very mark in the mode 'that Washington 'lrving, takes off the Dutch in his "History of Knickerbocker.' They Were mitten about the period of the Revolution. • • • and by a person who espoused the Tory side of Politics, in that day. The caricature has not the good humor of Knickerbocker, but ' evinces . the . malignity of personal feeling and Wounded Pride, • .• --... • ' Wepresume in New England a man Whoisras - ' asked to give :his authority for such a sudernent '. • Os Dr. 11..'s 561111.111 contains, about "the Dine . . pawn," would feel very much as a New Yorker, •• .- ' • to whom "the history of Knickerbocker" was inoted, as veritable fact. One' of these Yankees _ • . , apeakethas on the point; -How many people in these United States confidirtly believe that • • 'the famous code, entitled, .the blue laws of Con s' • necticist„ ? once had a place =Ong the statutes of . ,thin Colony? Tel oar- ifsthe'rs knew nothing .ithout them. 'They are O ..ehMr fabrieanon,! for -- which the world is indebted toy • Peter's hietory I pfsconnecticut,' the work : of an Episcopal rtles•- •I)'ssuut of thin colony," (the author is it Conneo . . ' tient man.) "who, in thebegidning of the ire•-•:, • ' ]lotion, sided with the en:emiet! of his - counitT, V' .!spd Sul from the indignation', of his neighbor; '; to Euglandorhere he employed his time in writ . ,ing.) , history, ' SCI full ofd gross' falsehoods, that ;the greatest ebaiity can Imagine nothing better . ' , baits defence, - than to supposelit won not intend . ed lobe tselieved."—liallb. "Puritans !sod their principlea,"lntraluctiou, Cage 17. A150....1-Kingn• ... ' . ..ley'a Historical Discourse at the 200thNitniver . '. , nary of, settlement of lir4s 1.11 : en." ' ..• : If this "well read" I al editor will persevere , . !in confounding the earl . Verit.lsble legiAation of i. '- - 1 Connecticut, with "BM Lairs" he 'lured r ,.( ~., • rquote "De . ibeiruenitlr," Yoe he will fi nd the rode .. ~. ~itself, from which these extracts are taken. ito . . .."Barber's ••ilistorical co lectiogs," in the Young - • I Men'n Library; - "Historical Collections of Coo ' , neaticut," pagelo. . . .Iplsllo, lIUGIIES, evava CATUOLIC.—BiII4op to Rome, preached in LOriolo r' which has been pnblithed, I lag passages "In America, as bete, tht i is looked upon with sus mien! is, perhaps, to much prejud but yet the idea of meeting f'Church with say otherrsr.s, gamma never enters in 4 p o on) 1 is there free. , And if iii shoal , any .one, tlint any •mensurtt by ,Congress to step the Orogr . , ,there is not a man of cuiv rth • I stand up and say, "let tile Ca I sail tltfnugh the lard, it it c ' I by fair, ormsment—if it canoe I opt having recourse to the fa This textituony is creditabl I op and his country; enl - not • , l: true. Vat what a.ead etiorm - , . ~ trreen /hi United States and' , I little chapel for the secular' I residents and strangers • , : - .I . :But again, compare wl -4 1 Irith , the following Pam, ~ ttr;h 'Cattotio of last .1 ' I from the article Whi ll ClCi l t ,1 oral days since. - ATM. on r own part, 1 way, to the opening of hut' we take this opportardty of estiressing be i FEOE THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. • . . Rim Mc listiond Piaetticenwr. hearty &Light at ifs suppression. This may be IDi tummies in South Afrira—Progreas of British Ist consequence of the misrepresentations thought intolerant,lbut when, we Would ask., did Cirilinition. !-. .:Ip c c r ,;,, gr shish e, we e now - being , 00 porm aignetl itt bz which have been eiriculated in- reference to the The bark Ocean Wave. C a p tain Cu tl e r, ta . - f i a t l in ' t r' r ,, g we ever profess to be tolerant to error, or to ad vocate the doctrine that error ought to lie toter- 0, , ~ port. ..,, ated. On the contrary we hate error, we detest , et tt t ,tht morning, Cape Town. to publish it for the inforann of ail who de a With our whole homeland smut, and we pray Cape of &mood Hope. December I. The mission- sire to know the truth about it: that our aversion to it may ever increase. We D ry ship Washington Allston, front Boston. for "The undersigned, members of the thirty ffire hold it meet, that Within the walls of the Eternal India, sailed from Cape-Town on the l''tli .if No. e . ',ember. The news from the interior shows tent Congress of the United States, believing that a Is totisidera le turbulence renewal of sectional controversy upon the sub- City, no worship abominable to God shoul f d put;liely adapted; and If e are varr ,i .V :1 1° ' (" .s, e _ e . . . , y ject of slavery would be both dangerous to the PrYvniling n . Union and destructivestof its objects, and seeing ter ens:nits of Truth are,in lutagfr