.'..•-_-.1) - i'Avil)14 . 1i . 111 -- i0tei . :' Allentown, Pa. THURSDAY, APRIL: 8, 14862; 10" We were requester) to aloft', that the neV. Mr. Brisbane, will preach in the English . :Methodist Church, on Sunday morning and ...;eleiting, the I ,lth Of April next. The Water Excitement. On Saturday evicting, the 3d instant, a meet. ing of citizens of Allentown, was called for the purpose-s-as stated in the notice, of taking in• to consideration the present Inadequate supply of water, and other grievancespomplained of, tho preeecalingoa which appear in another column of to-days paper. , I:. It is true, we labor too much for the want of . a sufficient supply..of water for culinary and family purposes, also in . case pf fire, we have not that supply, on hand which - the charter re_ quires, which should-be remedied as speedily as the nature of the case will admit. But it is known too, that the Water Compa ny has.been - surrounded.by innumerable difft. 2 culties, crippled in a pecuniary point of view 'since its formation, and We admit at times bad• . y managed. But what Company pray, is not '.more or ef - 3 badly - managed - We - have reason ''to believe that the present Managers have done . all in their power, but 'many unavoidable cir circumstances have presented themselves, pro ducing failures of water for the last year or so. Wiring lasi Summer we had a great scarcity of water, the smaller streams were nearly all dry. In-Easton-Readingi—PottsvilleFLancaster-and even Philadelphia, the want of a supply of water was seriously felt. In Philadelphia orders wore given out, that the water should not be used for washing pavements, and otherwise should be used sparingly. In Easton, Reading, Potts ville, Lancaster, and other places that we could name, the citizens we are told, were limited to tap the water for only one hour in the morning, one hour at noon, and one hour in the even ing. It appears then, that the citizens of other places have suffered equally as much, if not more, than the citizens of our Borough, for the want of a sufficient supply of water. Let us then, as good citizens, mutually strive to amend the evil in the most speedy manner. "The reason that we have not a full supply of water at present, are twofold. First, some evil disposed person or persons, broke open the iron sheeting at the Spring, and inserted some substance into the pipe, which prevents the passage to the pump, of a sufficient supply . of water. And second, during the extreme severity of the Winter, the main pipes have bursted in several places, besides the many family pipes, which are in a leaking condition, makes it impossible at the present time, to fur nish a full supply of water. We must for a short time bear the evil, until the weather per mits the repairing of the breaches. The greatest objection, however, appears to be to the wording of the permits issued by the Board of Managers on the lst instant. We ad. mit that this was rather an injudicious 'move at the present time. It renewed the excite ment against the Board, and gave its enemies a new impetus, upon the strength of which the meeting in the Courthouse assembled. In order to allay this seeming difficulty be tween the Managers and the citizens, a meet ing of the Stockholders of the Water Company was held on Monday evening, the sth instant, at which it was resolved that the objectionable feature in the permits should be stricken out, and that they be issued as heretofore. In cotiolusion we will say, that we feel assn• red that every thing that can, will be done, to furnish'a supply of water, and if mutual ccinces. sions will be sacred to exist, all will be right. Presidential Electors. The United States Senate have adopted with out a division a report of the Judiciary Com mittee of that body, declaring that the Presi. dontial election next November should be held under the new and not under the old appor. tionment. The Committee says in their report : • The Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint in such manner as the Legisla ture thereof may direct, a number of electors_ equal to the whole number of .Senators and Representatives to which the State maybe en: titled in the Congress." The act of Congress of Alarch Ist, 1792, passed before any election of President had been held under a new appor- tionment, gives a construction to the clause of the Constitution in these words. "IVhielt electors (of President and Vice Presideni) shall be equal to the number of Senators and Repre sentatives to which the several States may by laW•be entitled at the time when the President and Vice Pm . ..ids:it thus to be chosen, should come into The new npportiott mem on• der the firer collsum hoot 'amt • atter the 3d of 1 - “ in 14th apnl. 1792.) Accordingly, in 1792 ; In 1812, and in 1832, the Slates gave a number of electoral votes for President and Vice President equal to the num ber of their Senators and Representatives les- peetively front and after rho 3d at March, 1793 .-the 3.1 of March, 1313--and.the 3d of INltuch, 103 ; and the act of MO having a similar pro• vino - to that of 1792, so it must be in the next eleotien next Full—thin is, the Slates will vote under the nekv and not under the old appoi• tionment: Plank Road Company Petitions, says'tke Easton Argue, arc in air. culation for the incorporation of a company to construct a Plank Road from Easton to Beth lehem. The idea is a good one and we have no doubt the stock would be taken without any dialoulty. That it would pay well is beyond all question, and the roads between here and Bethieliern are so bad (luring some seasons of the year that an improvement of this kind is almost indispensible. There are few hills on the routo and the expense weld(' DO about 80,- 000 .dollar). A Few 'Wotan th-litirraers. As. we belie always a practical object in view in our distinitsiticins, ,- We now wish to direct the attention. of our fernaerd, Jar a few moments to the subject, of apienltu . re..,'The great discove ries, sap . ; :_the Scientific' American,' yet to be 'made in Agrieultifki will be the result of strong good sense, close obScrvatiorr, and' study ol natural phenoMena. One very eminent chem ist, [Leibig] who has devoted 'nearly his whole attention to agricultural chemistry, has chang ed his opinions more than once on certain great questions relating to agriculture, espe cially fertilizing substances. Although chem istry is of vast importance to the farmer, a most excellent chemist would niche but a very poor farmer if he did not pay attention to more than the mere chemistry of his business. A plant, fru example, is analyzed, and is found to be composed of silicon, potash, carbon, lime, and nitrogen; one says, "I shall make my fertili• era of such a compound;" he does so, and fails to obtain satisfactory results; why 7 Becanse he has not been a pinfitable observer ol nature's operationi. The human body is composed of nitrogen, carbon, water, phosphorus, lime, sili• con, and some other substances; carbon, nitro gen, the phosphate of lime, but especially wa -teri-rtre-the-prindipal-substances-of—whielt-it2is composed, and embon and water form the greatest portion of its nourishment, as the car bon is the main substance of that low combos- Lion which keeps up the heat ()Utile body ; yet who would be so foolish as to prescribe anthra cite coal, phosphorous, limo,. and nitre for hi , daily food? No one. We cannot tell why it isahat_matt_must_ploav,_sow,_and_reap_grain.,_ and why he must slay the ox for his food, when the same substances of which his body is composed, can be dug from the dust beneath his feet; we only know that such is the fact.— The grain of wheat requires sunshine, mois.. lure, and the blanket of mother earth, to make it germinate, grow up, and come forth again in the golden harvest to gladden the hetet of man. These operations of nature to produce certain results we are acquainted with, and have learned the facts by observation. All the knowledge of the farmer must be obtained by experience and careful observation. llis busi' ness is a practical one; not that of a dreamer or speculator; his eyes must be open to see and his hands always ready to do—never afraid to try an experiment, and never too hasty to adopt-a—theory -without experiment. Experi ment alone can determine the value of fertiliv.• ers, and the best mode of farming—such as the best modes of applying fertilizers—the time., soil, and seasons most suitable to do so: It is our opinion that every farmer should have a few acres of his farm set off fur model experi• mental agriculture; and this period of the year, we believe, is the proper time to commence such a system, hence our present remarks. Eleotion of' Borough Officers At an election for Borough officers, held on Monday last, the sth instant, the following per sons were duly chosen: Burgess—Joseph Manse. High ConFtable—WilliaM Horn sourit WARD—Cott/tat Peter Heller. Street Commissioner—John Hagen bud!. School Director—Amos Ettinger. NORTH IVARD—Council—J. Owen Saeger. E. R. Newhard. Street Contmissioner—Solo in oil Lucas. School Director.—Francis E. Samuels. The Silver Currency The U. S. Senate on Monday ordered to be engrossed for a third reading the bill reported on the Silt inst., by the Committee. on Finance, in pursuance of a recommendation of the Sec retary of the Treasnry, providing fur a new ver coinage, in pieces of the denomination of half a dollar and ess, to contain a gi eater por tion of alloy than the silver coins new in The measure is viewed as one of importance, in order to retain in the country a currency which is so essential in all business transac tions. The bill, if it shall pass the House of Representatives, is to go into effect on the Ist of May next; Daguerreotypes Mr. S. Bureaw, continues,taking likenesses in this borough. It is generally conceded, in fact we have never heard anything to the con trary, that Mr. B. takes very f , npeiior likeness es, and by the aid of his sky light arrangement, unr citizens have a fair opportunity In - gut sin gle pictures, and particularly grooves, to a bet ter advantage than ever heretofore: Price of single pictures $l,OO. Poor Mans' Country This is emphatically die poor man's country. A well ID indostrions, eetwornieal pair of young poopio, however poor, rerely fail to se cut tt a co:l , l,liabit , living, and alarge majority a competence in the, bargain. Tho United States Government is now seriously discussing the propriety of giving every initial settler a farm out of our public lands—ale hundred and sixfy acres a very snug tract indeed. When the hard toilers of ICing oppre'sued, and Pries! ridden P.Orope learn that the United States Government gives every poor man who will cultivate it, a farm, how often will their wist ful glances be turned towards this favored land. We hope the bill will pass; It is estimated, that if the public lands be longing to the United States, are sold only as rapidly in the future, as in the (cast, it will take nine hundred years to dispose of them. Cuss in New York and ilkirliktd.—From the New York Herald, of yesterday. we see that old Tammany Hall has declared in. the strongest terms for General Gass. And uotonly have the Old Hunkers, but so also have. the Young Dem ocracy, unfurled his name to the !react. Si,, ultaneously with this movement kt the North, comes the announcement that another Southern Slate, Maryland, has also hoisted tht same colors. Graiti GroWeri. • z The Wasiiington Intelligencer-mintidOi . : from information received, fmtii he, 111 , :q., United States Consati:)*Or ; fleitM:ijity: sel,'flesse Darmstadt, and-Floi~ovory that ir> eon=., sequence oftlte general:deficiettCy:toe , lait crop' of grain, and the bigb'prioSiCcasioned thereby, the States dompasing . the•Zoll'Verein of Germany have passed . a r DeCrip; . iltat from the first of the present month.to the. first of Sep tembet next, grairis, legumes and flour - can be imprted into the nil. Verein : duty. The import duty on grain, previous to . said decree, was about seven cents a bushel, and that on flour amounted to a prohibition, being two dollars and fiftycents per barrel. Worse and Worse There is, says the Alontgomery Ledger, no mistake but that the iroti bminess is suffering more and more every year by the loreign cam petition. The importations of foreign boiler plate iron, a 'description upon which the mills still in operation are running, is driving the American article out of market, as it is impos sible for our mills to make-iron at prices for which the imported article is sold. There must be an increase of tariff, or the wages of all per- sons en. , a , red in the manufactore of iron roust ; come down materially. In fact, prices and wages must come down all round. Oftlfe — two alternatives we wouid prefer an increase of tariff, and the tilling party in Congress will Darn' probably, when it is too law, that the vote of the worker of iron is of sonic comqvience: in a general election. Whether the loss will be male up from the farming community, on account of the benefit derived from gettinglliC article cheaper front abroad than at home, we seriously doubt, for experience within the past six or eight years seems to demonstrate. that the foreign market for their surplus grain is not to be depended on, and a good many farmers seem to think a man engaged in the iron busi ness in this country, will buy five times as much of their produce, as the same man or any ether man and his family would, if he was located in England, and we purchased from him there. The operations of the pre s ent twill has dile en the woollen manufacturers of Manyunk out of the market, and the mill; hac•o been stand ing idle, and it is a query whether the cheap ness of the article, which takes the place of that formerly made there, compensates the , !rain growing in , et est tor the loss of the labor to the country cc,ll3...quent thereupon. Let there bo a Change. Thero chonlel be a change in toe manage. meat of the S;ate Woiks. The interebt of the State requires it. The people demand it. Let them not be leased to any man, or set of men. Don't employ three men at 4 dollars per day, trho think more of how to make places for po litical friends to ftwil out of the public crib,than anything; eke. Hare one man—ono head, to control them. Pay 16111 S I 0,000 and get the inm.t hone t, conscientiomt, practical, scientific bmtinc.is Wall to be hound to lilt tho station.— If such a man can't be had ler 5,10,000, better pay him €20,000 ; than have mere politicians it; 7 1 1“. , 1 iho •Xe:1;:- , t nho=e lii, , hertt ambition is to promote patty interests, Let the : Mere is great reason to believe that submission. glory he to keep the works in good eider, and now would but invite additional and still more every year secure by his energy, labor and ioutrageous violations of right and justice from foresight, a large accession to the S'a'e rove'. this soulless corporation : Therefore noes, and thns rliete the people of their brr7r /:esoireci 7 .-That the Northampton Water Cum_ deft. The Reading Rail Road pays their Tres- i pany has entirely forfeited the confidence of the ident E. 10,000 per year—other roads, pay their public,—abused its privilegee and violated its PreAdente 5 and f'.-13000. This is the way.— charter, times and ways without number;—that I,st a man be had to give his whole soul to th e I its present managers are utterly unfit for the sta !natter, and pay him well lor the service. Thal Lion they occupy, and that the claims and pre tentions now set up and about to be enforced by necessary compensation will secure the notice them, under which they constitute themselves 's r}' titltlllt. NMI With the present miserable : the sole judges of the annual value of the water system. Lot the collected wisdom of the 1..- furnished to each fatnily---under which the pre gislatmo unite, in making such leoi~latinn, as emtory insist on payment in advance, and at the Will attain more efficiency, and more eronomy same time reserve the right to withhold the wa on our improvements.—Peffsfoum Ledgcr• ter at their pleasure or caprice, without being responsible for such deprivation,—addcd to which the illiberal and ridiculous attempt to di rect the use to which the water shall be eipplied by those who purchase and pay for it ; these and other acts of a kindred nature have filled the measure of their petty tyranny, and call loudly for such redress as will forever secure us from similar encroachments and grievances. Rcadrrd—That we consider the attempt to force upon us.the new permits, in their present obnox ious form, as an insult, and an outrage to our feelings, and tee hereby collectively and individ. wally Pledge ourselves not to accept of or pay for the sante, be the consequences, what they may—we arc willing to abide the result. Itezolo9l—That a committee of five be appuiti• ted to take lute consideration the propriety of proceeding against the said Company, in order to effect a forfeiture of their charter, and to pre, pare and submit to the next meeting, a plan of procedure, in case such forfeiture should be de. termined on. Whereupon the following corn_ mitres was appointed • Wm. Fry, .1. D. Lawall, Jesse Samuels, M. Humus, and Joseph F. Newhard, Resolved —That the Burgess and Towu .. Council arc hereby requested not to accept of, or in any Wise countenance the said emis• sion of spurious certificates of stock. Rooked—That the proceedings of this meet_ ing be published In all the papers of 'the 1.10- Break in the Delaware A serious breach, says the Ea ion occurred on the Delaware Division of the Venn sylvania Canal, near Clifford's Falls, some dis tance below this place, on Monday last. The which is a very high one at this place. was torn away for some distance, and carried into the Delaware. We are ipformild that it will require about ten days to repair the dam• ages, and put the ,Canal again in navigable order. Protective Tarill'Me 11 Tt wal; with mingled ply, that we read the ac. Counts 01 the various Twill meetings held dur, ing this winter, in curious portions of our :;tats. A large meeting without distinction of party was held in New Castle, Mercer Co., at which the Democrats took a very . active part, declaring that the interests of Pennsylvania, were suffer_ ing under the operation of the low Tariff of 1846, and that it was the duty of Pennsylvania to de. mand an increase of the Tariff on Iron and Coal, and some of the gentlemen in their zeal intima, ted that it' Congress relused to do so, that they would rArch in a body to the Capitol and de., mand it. Also in Befits and t!telittylltill counties, have large meetings been held by the Democrats in favor of increasing the Tariff on Iron and Coal. at which sundry resolutions were passed in fa• vor of Protection to American Industry, in pre , ference to British capital and labor. Plumy/main Canal 7 . rade. The business done on our canal since their opening is almos increditable. Up to Saturday night, there had been 2119 boats cleared at Pittsburg, the freights acrid eastward exceed 10,000,000 pounds, five thousand tons; and the cash received for hills. 46,513 60. This is a most encouraging report. Massachusetts.--In the Massachusetts House of Representatives over the Speaker's chair is an eagle, holding in its beak a scroll, with the words. ' , God save the Commobwealth of Massachusetts." A member recently submitted an order directing that there should be - added to this invocation, nand the Union of the states." • At a tacetl4 oVainkens .of I,tilentown, held at; C' the ourtHouisi, on ilia 3d calt,of:tipril;lB3, ot;tive . aedin iioreuance Or noiice e (O - tak e" '416 - coriAideritlion the prdient: .derazipe4 condi. 'the -public Vilater *OWN unl. -devic, ineEtne for a redreis of their grievaaCer: '',Robert E. Wright; ' Esq., was called to' . the ehair;:and.Dr. Jesse Samuels, imiointed.Seere. The object of the ineeting..havihg been'slite4, And the ipcbmpeteacy of the present board of di' rectors portrayed by the Taitirman. • On motion, Johh D. ',await, Major Wm. Fry, C. S. Bush,,Esq., Charles Seagreaves, John 11. Moser, Thomas Yeager, and Thomas Weaver, were appointed a committee' to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting, who, al ter a short absence, reported the following pre amble and resolutions: Whereas the Northampton Water Company is by the express terms of its charter bound to convey water to such persons, as may he dispos• NI to use the same, at such price, and upon such terms and consideration, as may 'be mutually agreed upon between the president arid mana gers thereof, and the person Or persons desi• rous of using the same, and also at all times to have a sufficient quantity of water prepared in-hydrants_or_cistesns,:to_be_used_in Case of lire, without compensation. And whereas, since the works of said com. pany have been in operation there has never dur ing the summer months, been an adequate sup. pTy of pure and wholesome water furnished, ftir the use of families, nor at any time the quantity required for the extinguishing of fires, though both have been well paid for and are within the reasonable iiiWifs—brth-e—compawin-conse- quence of which great loss of property and suf. fcring has ensued to the public, in violation both of the spirit and letter of the charter of said Corporation. And whereas, in addition to this, (growing bold and reckless by the uncomplaining submis siook with which we have hitherto borne their ty ranical conduct) the present board of Managers have attempted and are now endeavoring to com pel the public to purchase water permits on terms which, if aceseeded to, would render the Company as independant of the laws of the land as it has hitherto been reckless of the wholesale restraints of common honesty and public opinion, and enables its avericious, illiberal and narrow minded Managets to collect all its annual reve nues without discharging on their part, the duties for which the exclusive privileges which they possess, were originally granted, and for which they demand payment in advance. And whereas the managers of the Water Com pany have lately created a duplicature of fic titious certificates of Stock, of no real value, and evidently intended for the sole purpose of de frauding the State of the legal tax on all divi. dents over six per cent: And whereas the Borough of. Allentown is the holder of five thousand dollars wortli of the Capital Stock of said Water Company, and an acceptance of such fictitious certificates would not add one dollar to the actual value of the stock held by said Borough. But on the contra ry would be a direct participation in the fraud. thus attempted on the reveuue laws of the com monwealth. And Whereas, judging the future from the past rough Resolved—That when this meeting adjourns. it adjourns to meet again on Tuesday evening next. Charcoal far Steinc.--It is not perhaps gene. rally known that one of the best articles that can be given to swine while in preparation for the tub is common charcoal: The nutritive.proper lies are so great food they have subsisted on it without other food for weeks together. Geese confined so as to deprive them of motion, and feed them on three grains of corn per day, and as much charcoal -as they can devour, have be. come fat in - eight days.. The hog 'eats voracious ly after a little 'time, and is never. sick white she has - a full supplY. It shotild \ aliveys.be kept in the styes, and be fed to the.lOmates regularly like all other food. . • ' • . ri ..ZtatinANlNerfer:,- lefferso'n Nval'boio 46 ; thO 24 of ME April; 1743. James 7'homlion . and. wire; fit. lioatoil - coubty,,Ky., have ohjeleedlso6ollarnageit from Jahn:P. Cacripbep; (or -elaadei.- '• • ` EFThere'it're gg.o steainera on:the Olijo and . Mississippj of 156000 Infinage t - Wnrih' $16,000e oclq,'Lind cariycog s2so,ooo,6oo'tieight yearly.. t 1 The Buchanan Rifle 'Corps is the name or anew miiimey company Jost formed at Lancas ter, IM'Adverilsing in English papers.—The loaf. eat charge for advertising in the London Times is about three dollars a square; even a line an,. flouncing a marriage or death costs.seven shil. lings—nearly two dollars. (;:I.A. White Partridge—A gentleman in Hope well township, York county, Pa., trapped a few months ago, a partridge that was perfectly white, with all the other marks peculiar to the race.— The York Press says it has been purchased by a gentleman of Baltimore. . CR•The jury box now in use in the city of Lynn, Mass., has been kept for its 'present pur- poses, 120 years. The one used in Portsmouth, N. H., was made in the year 1730, and has' been in regular use for 122 years. 11f Some•enterprising merchant has recently chipped five hundred dollars worth of dogs to California. Pennsylvania and the Tariff. The annilti*report recently presented by the directors of the Philadelphia . Board of Trade In the members embodies a statement of facts bear.. l ing upon the' tariff question, and the condition of the Iron Trade of Pennsylvania under the oper' ation-of-the-mcasure-of-1840.--That-branch_of_ Industry is represented as still experiencing a &cline that threatens ultimately to deprive it of all vitality ; and the figures introduced by the Secretary of the United States Treasury into his report are cited as in strict accordance with the individual experience of many members of the Board. We quote from the directors statement: "•In 1840, according to the census of that year, Pennsylvania produced 98.395 tons of pig iron, and 87,244 tons of wrought iron. In 1847, 389, 350 tons of pig iron, and 203,727 lons of wrought iron• In 18.50, the census returns, 285,702 tons of pig iron, and 182,50 G tons of wrought iron.. "Had there been no change in the tariff, or had that change been only so far modified as to have permitted the manufacturers to continue their business at a profit, instead of a loss, it cannot be doubted thaVennsylvania alone would now be producing pig iron to the extend of 800,000 tons per annum, and that the demand of the country would have warranted this extended production. "The loss of the people of Pennsylvania, and to the merchants of this city, whose business is prosperous, or the reverse, in the exact ratio of the prosperity of the producing classes, is at this moment felt in the great falling off of de mand for merehandize among both agriculturists and manufacturers in this State. The Common wealth feels that she has sustained a loss to her revenue in ditniniAed tolls on her public.ime proveinents, made at a cost of $40,000,000; and instead of a traffic which ought to press upon her canals and fill her coffers with revenue, het furnaces and rolling mills are half idle—the coat ore, and limestone lie comparatively worthless in fite ground—her workingmen, the treaters of her wealth, are in a measure, idle—the cropS of her sturdy farmers arc neither wanted at home nor abroad, even at their present low prices; and the treasurer of this great State has been ob liged to call upon the Legislature, now in see, sion, for authority to borrow temporarily $300,- 000, to enable him to meet the semt.annual in terest upon the State loan payable today. "That we may not be considered as having at tached undue importance to the existing depres sion in the manufacture of iron, in its effects upon the interests of this State, we submit some facts, taktn from a statistical work on the man ufacture of iron published by the Convention of Iron Masters, held in this city, December 30, 1840: ' , The total imports of iron, including mann. factures of steel andiron and steel, was 319,375 tons, value $15,058,961, whichwas composed of the following items: Coal Iron ore. Limestone Breadstulls consumed in feeding 56,471 labor. ers in Great Britain, representing a population 0f.383,355 persons, at 30 dollars worth per head. $8,470,650 The same population in this country would have consumed 50 dollars worth of breadstuffs per lead, or $14,117,750 “The total exports of breadsiuffs for the year ending December 24, 1819, from the United StateA to all the wovhl , .was $22,895,183. Of which Great Britain and . Ireland took 111,757,- 66G, ivhich is a less amiiiintin value than the iron imported from that ClBO4, and lees, than the 282,355 persons dependent an the works pro ducing this huge quantity of iron would have consumed in breadstulTs had they produced. it on the bank; of the Susquehanna, Schuylkill,. or Lehigh, at the Wages:plad to American work men. bit was thought a great matter in 1840, to have the whole world fur a market to our agri culturists, and it was made the chief motive, and most potent argument, in faviirrof- A re duction of duties; but while the custom house returns the fact that we have exported fewer breadstuffs to• the world's maket in 1861 than we did in 1846, before the duties verir-reduced on foreign imports, and bafortr i the English corn laws were abolished; and the further . factit we are importing, more than,five tintetsas,tputi7 - iron as we did,by which wehavi. lost a honie market for more than 1114,000,000 Of breadatuffs, and have alliwed to remain, wider ground'say.. eral tzgllions of tons of coal, ore, rind Milestone —the, delusion at once become , apparent; and we cannot doubt that, if the matter ki proper.. ly brought before Congress, a wirier legislation on this snbject "will result pi Oryiedyfog t he ~ evils ao,grieVous,to„the•peopte;tif Pennsylva• Mya and -. injurious ,to like growth' nd prospetily of this city. .. . . ~ • . On tlai - Ifst.of March . : . t bin to restrict the maniifacture and. sale of inloiticadng liquors 'eatie up in order on Ihird'readreg and passed by a vote of 19yeas . tti 15 nays. 7 • Mr. Ban*lto r . moved that the tlettrte proceed to the considdition . of the Bill to increase the cap ital stock'of the Southwark Bank, which was car ried by; a vote of n to' 12. The bill was their laid over for the next day. On motion of Mr. litAnlin, the further stipple ment to the act incorporating tile Efelaivat'e, be. high, Schuylkill and Susqu'eh'anna Railroad Company, was taken up, read a second and third time and passed. On the Ist of April, Mr. Crabb moved tint diet' Senate proceed to the consideration of. the Wilt& recharter the Easton Batik. The , motion was negitived by a tie vote. The bill to increase the capital stock of the Southwark Band, came up In order gn second+ reading. • Mr. Muldenbeig moved an amendment regtite , ing the new stock to be soldat public sale, and ,the amount of premium realizcd, paid into the State Twasury as ibunrrs. ~ • The bill to•increase the capital stock of the _Suuthwark_Bank,came_up_on_the_seeon_d_QTApsti .on second reading. The qubstion , pending being upon the amendment of Mr. Muhlenherg,requir ing the new stock to be sold, offered yesterday, which was adopted by a vote of 20 to it. On motion of Mr. Crabb, the farther consider , ation of the Southwark Bank was- then postputr. ed for the present. On motion of Mr. Shimer, the bar to incorpoo ratethe Farmers and Mecha - rtics - Bank - of - Allen• FOThvas taken up, read a second and'iltird time and passed finally by the following vote: Yew..--Messrs. Barnes, Carothers, Crabb, Dan lington, Frailey, Hamilton, Hamlin, Haslett, Kun. kel, 11Tarland, M'Murtrte, Malone, Matthias, Meyers, Robertson, Shimer, Slifer and Walker. Speaker-18. NATB.—Mcssrs. Baily, Buckalew, Carson, Ev ans, Fernon, Forsyth, Fulton, Hoge, Junes, Weaslin, Packer--19. On motion of the same Sehator, the bill to re charter the Eason Bank, was taken up, read a third time and passed finally by the intluwing of yeas 19, nays 10. On motion of Mr. Frailey, the bill to ineorpo, ate the Anthracite Bank of Tamaqua, was taken up on second reading and passed finally by the vote of 17 to 12. On motion of Mr. Carson, the hill to incorpn, rate the Erie City Dank was taken op. read a second and third lime and pa+srd flnally by the vole of 18 to 11. On motion of Mr. Lilly, the bill to incorporate the Mauch Chunk Bank, was taken up foritoak passage Mr. Bonham moved that the House go into committee of the whole for the purpose ofamend. ing the hill so as to restrict the issues to notes less than the denomination of ten dollars, which motion was defeated by the very decisive vote of 46 against 15. On the'2nd of April Mr. Bonham, chairman of the committee of Ways and Means, reported an amendment to the appropriation bill, to issue certificates of stock with coupons attached to the amount of $5,000,000 at 5 per cent, to be allott ed to the highest and best bidder; for the purpose of paying that portion of the State debt which iv now due, or will become dee in the year 1851. Ordered to be printed. The following public bills were acted upon, and passed. • An act to authorise the County Commission ers to subscribe for and preserve two or more newspapers published weekly in their respective counties. A further supplement to an act in reference to partitions in Orphans Courts. , An act regulating the descent of property of the mother of illigitimate children. The Southern Press is out in favor of a sep arate Southern Rights Organization, and against Scutt and Cass for the Presidency. The Petersburg Intelligencer, [Whig,] says that Gen. Scott must come out fully for the Corn. promise, or it will unite in any opposition to de feat his election.*The editor says his native town, and every Southern State, county, and Pre cinct will vole against him if he does not boldly come out in fakir of the Compromise measures. The Washington Telegrspkpublishes a leiter from lion. James Buchanan to Washingtcys,l4- (toy, in which he says lie has no speCial tion fur the Presidency, except it came as a-corn plimcnt from his countrymen. , . Tons. 1,412,649 1,053,720 411,700 Democratic Conterilion--Thc Southern Rights . Democratic Convention reassembled at' Mill. etlgeville, Georgia, April 1, at 3 o'clock, according to adjournment, and received ibe committee Thirty-Three, rvaffirming the Ba lti' more platform of 1844 and 1849, and reeom. mending the appointment of forty Delegates try the Baltimore Convention. This report was adopted, and the Delegates• were appointed; four from each Judicial District were nominated by the Delegates from the Dis..; trict, and eight for the State a large were nomi nated by the Convention. The Delegates to the Baltimore Convention go instructed to show n 6 preference for any par. neuter candidate; but, although not expressed, it is understood that a large majority of the Von* vention were in favor of t Buchanan as their first choice. The Convention adjou i rned at 9& o'clock; P. M. i CterStpiacorcry.—ln Sweden, they have frozen, atemale Cons,Jiit h, for nine monthy, after whic 'she gave signs of life. Iri6ts, system should prOVo successful, sr boory.it would , be to maidens of a * certain age, •y would. have, to do, after running their first dare c ofcoquel!*, would hero freeze themselves up foci few yeers, and come out again tender virgins; - • Afri. swisshelm the editress of the rittsburg fiinturday. Visitor, has reoently—aftor,l3, years of mania life—be-602e kir the,OSitithe a mother. • . 'On the twentieth Ontpril next, Louie Na. roleon t rig foal. four years of age. dee -:••••• edingtio : , - 7Htititssuiti;.litsrebi.3l,lBsl: SDNATE. Political =I
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