al)e t'eliigli itegigter. Allentown, Pa. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1862. rirOar thanks are due to the Hon. James C. Jones, Hon. Richard Broadhead, Hon. William H. Seward, Hon. Thomas Ross, Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, for Congressional documents; and to Hon. Conrad Shimer, and Messrs. Laury and Hart for Legislative documents. The Allentown Bank It is probably known to all of our readers that the bill chartering a Bank at. 41Ientown, has passed the Senate last wo:k4;_and now awaiti - rits result in the (ions !' Monday last was set apart for tho consideration of the Bank bills in the House. We were informed by Tel _egraph,_ however,_that- the-consideration-was again postponed until Wednesday, the I 4th in stant. What the result will be, time can only determine. We have very encouraging news from Harrisburg, and we oust our worthy Rep- resentative Mr. Diary, will be able to carry the bill through the House. The Mauch Chunk Bank bill passed the House on the 2d instant b the ver decided vote of 41 to 35. The bill now only needs the signature of the Governor to become a law. So here is the point. Many entertain doubts as to whether Governor Bigler will give his sanc tion to an increase of Bank capital in this State, although we have comparitively speaking, less banking capital, in proprotion to the trade and population, than any State in the Union. We cannot fora moment believe, that should our bill pass the House, that he would think to refuse his signature. He has travelled through our sec tion of country, and bad an opportunity of be coming acquinted with the large business operations in our county, which we doubt not, have fully satisfied him, that if an Institution of this kind is wanted in any part of the State, it is in Allentown. The Manufacturers, Mil lers, Merchants, Traders and Mechanics are at present laboring under many inconveniences from the fact, that they have to travel a great ,distance to procure business facilities, all of which we trust will be taken in consideration by the Governor. The Meeting on the 9th The proceedings of the adjourned meeting held in the Courthouse, on Wednesday even ing last, were handed to us for publication. The extreme length of the Report, accompani ed with the proceedings prevented us from giv ing them in our columns this week. The fol. following resolution, however, contains the sum and substance of the report : Resolved—That a Committee of three be ap pointed, whose duty it shall be, to proceed against the Northampton Water Company, either by Quo Warranto or by sire Facias, ns ahall bo donmod mn,t f1:1V:`.•LIOP, in or der to effect a forreiture of tool- (-barter, %von power to employ Counsel,colleet fon,l.=, to .1e• fray the necessary expenses, kc., ttnu.! to .lo every thing necessary to effect the obyrt of their appointment. The following gentlemen were appontted to carry out the instructions of the above resolu tion, namely: Jesse Samuels ; John B. Moser, and Charles S. Bush. We understand that it is the wish of the pres ent Board of the Water Company, to withdraw from its management, and in their place desire an entire new Board to be elected.. This meas. sure will no doubt allay much of the dissatis. faction that now exists. The Road to Pottstown We are pleased to see that our worthy Rep resentative David Leary, Esq., on the 6th inst. took up the Allentown and Pottstown Railroad Bill, and passed it through that branch without any opposition. This will be gratifying news to the citizens of both these thriving places, and also to those along the line. The bill is now in the hands of our attentive member Gen. Ski mer, in the Senate, in whom we have the con fidence, that he will secure its passage through that branch of the Legislature at its earliest pe ried, in accordance to the unanimous wish of his constituents. We trust the friends of the project at Pottstown will keep the ball in mo. tion, in order that the bill may be passed to the Governor's table, and there receive his signi ture before the Session closes. New Bank Proviso The following proviso was attached to the Bank bills which passed the Senate, on Friday last. It is said the same proviso, with an un important modification, will be appended to the Charter of each of the new Banks: "That the said Bank shall pay into the Trea sury of the Commonwealth, within three months after the expiration of the present char ter, two per centum upon the ‘Vhole amount of the capital stock thereof; and shall be subject to a tax upon such capital stock, according to the rate and amonnt provided by the 33d sec tion of the Act of the 29th of April, 1844, enti tled 'An Act to reduce the State debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail- road Company,' in lieu of the tax upon the capi tal stock imposed by the 46th section of the Act of the 16th of April, 1850, entitled 'An Act Regulating Banks Provided, That should said Bank, at any time hereafter, be made the subject of taxation, not now provided for by ilogeneral laws, the percentage so paid shall be credited to said Bank on account of said midi• tionaldaxation." State Agricultural Fair We are pleased to learn from the Carlisle Herald (who is no doubt speaking by authori ty of Judge Watts, Chairman of the Pennsyl vania State AgricultUral Society . ) that the Com mittee entrusted with the selection of a place, have decided hpon accepting the proposition for holding the next State Fair at' or near the City of. Lancaster. .It will be worth the trip to many of our Lehigh county Farmers ; to see that magnificent county. Bible Society The annual meeting of the "Lehigh County Bible Society" held its annual meeting on the evening of the 12th of January, 1852, in the Lecture room of the German Reformed Church. The minutes of the last two meetings were read and adopted. The Treasurer presented his report, which was read and accepted, of which the following is a true copy : • Christian Pretz, Treasurer for the year 1851, in Account with the Bible Society. January 1, To Balance in the Treasury, $l2 07 February 3, collected at the Courthouse, 677 March 26, " Rev. Bleentisen, 9 19 -May 23, " Rev. Jos. Schantz, 435 July-18 , August 26, " Rev. Walker, 383 Sept. 17, " Washington Church, 5 76 Airs. E. Thomas, Life membership, 5.00 At sundry time? for books sold, 7 57 4.. et Receipts, 7 . . • . slb6 80 February 3, By Cash paid for Candles, 59 _May_27, Paid-Penn-Bible-Society,- 55 July 18, Paid Adam Snyder, 10 00 July 29, Pennsylvania Bible Society, 15 00 August 14, Paid Adam Snyder, . 12 27 Balaneein - theiraltds 33 69 Total, . . . . . 6 106 80 This Society owes the Pennsylvania Bible Society $l4 00. They have yet on hand 23 german bibles, 4 english bibles, 1 english bible.in fancy bind ing, 24 english testaments. They have also in the hands of Rev. Mr. Carlisle, 6 english and 5 german Bibles. C. PRETZ, Ti'easurer. . The members then proceeded to the nomi nation and election of Officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as fellows: 'President—Jonathan Reichert. Vico Presi dent—Jacob Ritter. 'Recording Secretary—E. Moss. Corresponding Secretary—William S. Young. Treasurer—flenry Weinsheirner. On motion a committee of three were ap pointed, to revise and amend the Constitution and draft By-laws, consisting of Messrs. Chris tian Prinz, Rev. S. IC. Brobst and William S. Young. The Secretary to confer with the Pre sident, and fix upon a day, on which the com mittee is to meet. Adjourned. Sunbury and Erie Railroad We learn that D. D. Miller, jr., President of the Company, returned on Friday night, from a hasty visit to Clinton and Lycoming counties.— During his stay, the Commissioners of the form er county subscribed one hundred thousand, and the latter two hundred thousand dollars to the stock of the Company. The borough of Lock Haven also subscribed twenty thousand dollars —making, in all, three hundred and twenty thou sand dollars added within the last week to the subscription of this railroad, the importance of which to the State and to this city cannot well be over estimated. s 10;10,,vs Warren c. , utit, Elk do 100,000 Clinton do 'lOO,OOO Lycoming do 200,000 Lock Haven Borough, 20,000 Philadelphia j o rtdividual subscription, 420,500 Warren county, '52,000 Total, one million five hundred and fifty one thousand five hundred dol lars, A large amount of individual subscription has been secured by committees, still actively em ployed in increasing their lists, and from whom no definite report has yet been received. The . foregoing list embraces nothing but what is ab. solutely in possession of the Company. •Exclasiire of $16,800 conditionally subscribed. Congressional Plunder. The liuflalo "Commercial Advertiser" has geucer" from Alr. Edward Armstrong, a mem• been cyphering out the amount of plunder ber of the House of Representatives, from the which each member of Congress gets. It up- City of Philadelphia, who framed the bill in pears that the books amount to nearly a thou- question. The act, it appears, is only compd. sand dollars, to say nothing of crooked mile. sory, so far as the City of Philadelphia is con• age. The list is as follows: corned. In every other portion of the State.it American State Papers, 21 vols. $532 50 Is left optional with the people, whether to Registers of Debates, 31 " 145 00 make the registry or not; merely providing a American Archives, 7 gc 117 32 place where a person may go to record those Congressional Globe, 20 " 80 00 facts, which, in some instances, are highly im- Laws of the United States, 9 " 31 50 Porlara to be known. Diplomatic Correspondence, 7 " Elliott's Debates, 5 " Finance Reports, 3 tt Senate Land Laws, 2 " Contested Elections, 1 " Opinions of the Attorney Gen. 1 " United States Constitution, 1 Annuals of Congress, 6 gc Constitution of Congress, iNorks of Alex. Hamilton, Works ofdohn Adams, Total volumes, The Commercial then cyphers up the pay and perquisites of a Mississippi niernbCr of Congress after this fashion: Alileage both ways 1600 miles, 51,280 Per Diam for nino months, . 2,000 Books, . . . ! . . 865 Papers, . . Stationary, . . . . . 30 Stealings, . . . . . 6O If to this wore added the franking privilege, (for eaoh member franks home a tart load of books) we find the coast of a Mississippi mem bor to be about $5,000, for a Session of Con gress. If to this be added the damage which he is apt to do to the manners and morals of the country, we find his "public services" pur chased at a pretty dear rate. Refused Pardon—President Fillmore has re fused to pardon the two unfortunate men, Reed and Clemens, who were some time since convict ed in the United States Court,• at Richmond, in Virginia, on the charge of piracy. They will be executed. They 'Were executed on the plO Inst. The interminable speeches made in Con gross to promote presidential intrigues, are se verely commended upon by the independent press of all parts of the country. The Louis ville Democrat contains the following timely, well eserved protest against the prevailing practices of converting the halls of Congress into arenas for the. settlement cf family dis putes, to the neglect of urgent public busi ness : "The Constitution of the Union has imposed upon Congress the bu Si 11 CRS al4ki duty of mak ing laws; with the people alone is reserved the rights and business of_making_VresidentEH But of late years the members of Congress have taken the.especial privilege of manmuvr, ing and wire working, to become the 'War wicks! of this-Republie in-this age - of the press and steam. Louis Napoleon excused his usurpation as the overthrow of a jaigling, elec tioneeriag., ob:ginide legislature,' and many approved of his conduct as a choice devils. -- "If - the - memb( if" Cr _.Jers of .ongress do not pay more attention to their legitimate busines, but continue the procrastination of legislation to await the issue of makingdlreßidentsrthe-neo- plc may make a sad overhauling and overturn. ing oldie honorables. Three and a half months of tho session have expired, and wJnit has been done, and what is now doing, in eit:ter (louse ? Chattering and disputing the meths 01 A, It. or C, Whig or Dem;ler'ane canlidates; mcnr• bets visiting their homes and constituents, to see how the card is playing in their immedi ate neighborhoods, arid give a hint to the pub lic sentiment how the game may be played at the Democratic or Whig Convention. The Harrisburg Keystone says that the annu• al statement of the amount of appropriation to which each school district is entitled, will be transmitted to the County Commissioners dor. ing the month of April, whose duty it is to cause tho same . to be advertised immediately in ono or more newspapers of their respective counties. The appropriation for the present will be tim same -to each district that it was last year. Blank reports will be sent by The Superin• mildew to each Hoard of Directors during the month of April. The Directors are urged to be prompt in making their reports within the time specified by law. Pennsylvania has a queer way of traing bu : siness. She seems determined to make the world believe she is very poor and very heavi• ly taxed at the same time. This is done,4 making the State tax 30 cents on the hundred dollar, and then, in order to make the tax light, value properly of one forth, one half, or two thirds its value. The I'd ontgotnery Ledger thinks that this does pceomplish that object ve ry hand,otnety. wets 0., t.. mat the above rate, and the as-essors instructed to tt alair market value on property, we would 4ot tuore icvmme, and make a much better appearance before our neighboring States, as well as secure more equality in taxation. It is a discreditable and lamentable truth, that many men are not taxed to more than one fourth the extent of their property, while others are taxed two thirds the value, and over, upon their properly. The man who owns much properly, is generally taxed the lightest—and the poor laboring man, who owns but a small cheap house and lot, is generally valued, com paratively the highest. =I 1 () 11l (1 150 MO $1,551,500 The Registration Pill. Many persons may be under the impression that the neglect or refusal to registe,La mar riage, birth or death, subjected the proper per , . son to a line of twenty dollars. T4Filt-7.is not the case, as we learn by the following letter re ceived by the Editor of the "Lancaster Intelli- 15 00 15 00 Communication with China. It has been justly said that there is no bounds 10 00 10 00 to AMerican enterprise. 'Among the most !nag -500 nificent and attractive projects now occupying 500 public attention,. is the propm;ition to establish 500 a line of Steam Ships from our possessions on 30 00 the Pacific to Shanghae and Canton in China, 12 50 now stands foremost. \We have had in our 15 75 possession for some - - 104., , ,4T1 have carefully 22 50 read and examined the methanol of Messrs. James B. Moore, LaWrence, Goodman, Diehl, 25 " 7 (C 10 " and their associates, with a Chart, evidently prepared at the expense of much labor and money, descriptive of the line of communica tion and the prominent points in this country .and tbe Chinese Empire, which will be mast immediately affected by the opening of this Trade. In our next number we will publish 'the memorial with the commontaties of oursell and others, upon the sul,joet, and would have done so sooner, but have been anxiously wait ing 'for, the report of one of the able and en lightened Committees of Congress, who have had this and other propositions before them, since the commencement of the present seg. sion i for aid 'to open a direct communication by steam, between this country and Asia. A number of our intelligent and scietnific fellow citizens have examined the Chart, which has a conspicuous place in our office, with the ex planatory papers, and they appeared to be en thuSiastic in wishing success to the grand pro ject. Tho propositlon of Mr. Moore, and others,. asks no money from the Treasury, and this strongly commends it to favor in this State.--r- Linicas/er intriligencer. $865 57 Waste Time in Congress School Appropriations What is Done in Our State Legislative Proceedings. SENATE. April 2. On motion of Mr. Muhlenburg, the Senate took up the bill to incorporate the Read ing and Kulztown Ilaitrond Company, when it passed second tending and was laid over. • On motion of Mr. M'Caslin, the supplement to the act to revise the Militia system, and to pro vide for the training of those only who shall be uninformed, was taken up and passed a second reading. April 5. On motion of Nit . . Mnhlcnbcrg, the bill to incorporate the Reading and Knztown Railroad Company, was taken up un third read• _ing,,_and was passed-linally: On motion of Mr. M'Caslin, the Senate took up on second reading the supplembitt to the act to revise the Militia system, and passed it finally MEI BE3 On motion of Mr. Fernon, the bill to incorpo• rate the Philadelphia,. Easton and Water Gap Rail Road Company, was taken up, discussed, and passed finally. April 6. On motion of Mr. Shinier, the bill to incorporate the Easton Savings Institution, was taken up and passed finally, yeas 10, nays 10. On motion of Mr. Fraile , the Sonate_took_u tic i to repeal the act requiring the registra tion or births, marriages, and deaths, when it passed second reading by 16 yeas to 13 nays, and was then laid over. Ai - ill! 7. The Congressional Apportionment bill was made the special order of the day for the Bth, and every day till disposed of. April 9. A supplement to the charter of the Cattawissa, Erie& Williamsport Railroad pasted. The bill repealing the act providing for the re• gistration of births, deaths and marriages, was negatived, yeas 13, nays 13. HOUSE Mr. Lilly introduced a bill to change the 'name of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Comdany, and mint. ing to subscriptions to the stock of said company. The bill to incorporate the Mauch Chunk Dank came up on final passage and passed— yeas 41, nays 35. On motion of Mr. Gillis, the supplement to the act regulating banks (construing it in such a way as to allow the payment of tax on dividends out of the contingent or surplus fund of the hank) was taken up on second reading and finally pas. sed, yeas 41, nays 28. April 8. The bill to incorporate the Allen town and Pottstown Rail Road Company was taken up and finally passed. April 7. The hank bills from the Senate in• corporating, a number of new institutions, and extending the charter of others, were made the special order of the day for the 12th instant. Mr. Lamy, from the Committee on Banks; re. ported a bill to incorporate the Citizens' Bank of Pittsburg. Mr. Acker, from the same committee reported with amendments a bill to authorize the banks of this Commonwealth to issue notes of a less de nomination than five dollars. The Maine Liquor law, beinu the order of the day, Mr. o'rqcnt moved to strike out all atter the enacting clause, and insert a new bill, requi ring all applications made to the court of quarter sessions for tavern license, to be petitioned for by twelve property holders in the proper ward, precinct or township, setting forth the necessity for such tavern the petitioners to certify, under oath or affirmation, that fact. If the tavern is to be located in Philadelphia ,city or county, thelic. cnce is to be fixed at 8500, for the use of the :State, and the act of 1849 relative to the mode of granting tavern licenses in Philadelphia city and county, is repealed as are all laws inconsistent With this one. Several amendments to the amendment of Mr. O'Neill were offered which were not agreed to, and the original motion was also lost, by the ful. lowing vote, yeas 14 nays 74. The question again recurring upon the pas sage of the first section of the bill, it was negativ ed—yeas 16, nays 50. Dangerous Frauds.—Thompson's Bank Note Reporter says: Refuse all notes correspond ing to the following descriptions, no matter'of what denomination they may be, or. what Bank they may purport to be issued by: ss, in the centre of the mite is a large circu• lar die containing a figure s—to the right of this are two men, ono harrowing with two par ses, and the other sowing seed. On the left end is a man with a double•horso plough team. On the right end-margin is a large figure 5 in the centre, and the letter V on the upper and lower corners. Oa the left end margin is the word FIVE running across the whole and. This is altered from some broken western Bank, and its last appearance was on the Farm ers' and Mechanics' Bank, at Easton, Pa. It is well engraved, and this makes it more like ly :o pass, where it is not known. It is im possible to follow these, notes through all their various alterations, and it is not only by keep ing their description in the mind, that our sub scribers may detect them, when again altered to some other Bank. • Great Spent in Railroad Travel.—A few even. ings since, the cars at Weldon were detained beyond the usual hour for starting, waiting for the Wilmington train. They had , to connect with the Baltimore line, and by the application of a little steam the trip was performed in two hours and ten minutes, including stoppings, a distance or 80 miles, arriving. at Portsmouth, in full time for the steamboat. Deduct thirty min utes for stoppages, it makes the above run at the rate of forty. eight miles per hour. This is not equalled on any other route in this country in the regular trips. Gold Mines in Auslralin.—The gold fields of Australia are supposed to extend over a surface of 200,000 miles. It is estimated that the amount of gold which will be sent to England, in the course of the present year, will be about £3,000,. 000, while the ultimate yield of £8,000,000 per annum Is talked of. The Government Commis. stoners have •reported that the mines are capa ble of giving highly remunerative employment to at least 109,000 persons, or at least four times . the number now there. GLEANINGS f7:o"The amount of coal mined in Pennsylva. nia during the year 1851, was 1,400,000 tons of bituminous, and 4,900,000 of anthracite, of which the aggregate value is $22,000,000. tar The German population of Cincinnati is estimated at 00,000 EV - The discovery of what is true, and the practice of what is good, are the two float portant objecs of life. • reThe man who don't take the papers wants to know whether Lola Monies is a native of Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. Ile says he has forgotten to which of these States she belongs to. ("They have straWberries and green peas at Savannah. The latter were selling at eight dollars per bushel. 1. - Pools draw false conelusions_froril 'list principles, and madmen draw just conclusitins from false principles. Fillmore Flag.—The New Orleatt . Commercial and Bee have both raised the flag of Millard Fillmore for the Presidency.. ci-Nine steamboats are now running regular ly between New York and Albany. Between the river and fire railroad, opposition must be n u ally_wartn I e - The battle of Lexington, at which the first Revolutionary bloodshed moistened the green sod of that ancient town of the Old Bay State, April 19, 1776, will he celebrated this year in New York, on its Anniversary. Remarkable Financial Pacts Among the many wonderful things connected with our banking system, says the Keystone, is the fact annually set forth in the report of the Auditor General, showing the condition of the banks as reported by their sworn officers, that their affairs are so nicely managed that in every instance the resources of the banks are exactly equal to their liabilities, and vice versa. There is not a cent either way, either singly or in the aggregate ; they are just as much as they are able to pay and no more ; and while •the liabilities of the whole batch are shown to have been in November, 'lB5l, ,f. 58,618,886 11, the resources were also exactly $58,018,886 it. It is truly wonderful'how they manage to keep their accounts so axactly balanced all the time ; we are certain no individuals could do so, and if there is any thing more wonderful about these institutions, it is the fact abundantly proven in the case of the Lumberman's, Towanda, Lewis town, Susquehanna, and other banks, that where a bank happens to wind up between the making. of the return, there is such a material dif ference shown between the liabilities and assets, from that shown b the official returns, as almost lead to the suspiebin at the latter are things "sworn, attested, everyth 7. but true„" The 31 Gallon Law This is the form assumed by the Maine Liquor Law in our State Legislature, anti the friends and enemies of that law, regard it in its present shape as a humbug, and this, in our:opinion, is a correct endorsement. If the matter is to be re• f..‘rred to a vote of the peoplo, provOtod for in the bin, why not petmtt them to vote upon the matter in a proper form. The, people do noth_ ing by halves, and it is to be regretted that the bill has been put in a shape which will leave the main issue open to agitation, whether the bill now before the House is rejected or adopted by the people. The 31 gallon law is neither one way or the other, and we lope the Legislature will have good sense enough not to let such a proposition go before the people, which is alike distasteful to both sides, because it embodies the views of neither, and dues not embrace the point at issue Ifetween them.— BerkB CO. Press. Land Warrant Assignments. -- The following infonnation relative to land warrants, recently made assignable by Act Of Congress, has been officially announced by the Commissioner of Public Lands: • "The assignment and acknowledgment must be endorsed upon the warrant, and must be at tested by two witnesses, acknowledged before a Register or Receiver of a Land Office, a Judge of a Court of Record, a Justice of the Peace, or a Commissioner of Deeds resident in' the State from which he derives his appointment, and in every instance where the acknowledgment is made before any officer other than the Register or Receiver ul a Land Office, it must be. accom. panied by a certificate, under seal of the proper authority, of the official character of the person, before whom the acknowledgment was made, and also of the genuineness of his signature. Ac. knowledgments of assignments by Notaries will not be recognized. A Grad Newspaper.—The N.Y. Daily Tribune of last Saturday, published a supplemental sheet of 21 columns in addition to its usual double' sheet—making 72 closely printed columns in all —3B of which were filled with advertisements. The publishers say they expect yet to be obliged to print a supplement every day. They have just put up a new six•cylinder press, calculated to print some 12,000 copies per hoar. short' say they, the Tribune is bound to go ahead—and never on any former 3d of April printed so many copies by thousands. Quid nip from Albany.—The train which left Albany at ten minutes past 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, on the Hudson River Rail. road, arrived at the station in Thirty-second street, New York, at twenty minutes past I thus performing the trip in three 'hours and ten minutes. This speed is at the rate of titty.three miles an hour, including stoppage. It is hardly possible, that the Hudson River Railroad . Com pany could obtain possession of our person, be fore we had transacted a little business with the officers of a Life Insurance Company. J,icob W. Smith, of Selinsgrove, Union county, Penh., formerly a German Re. formed Minister, and lately a merchant commit. ted suicide by hanging himself in the gaVret of his own house, of the Ist instant. Family Poisoned.—On the t.!.9111 of March the wife and 7 children of Mr. Daniel K. Decker, Berks County, were poisoned by eating cakes, in which arsenic had been accidently put, and came very near losing their lives. Timely medical aid hcwever enlinternetinl the Stockton a Protectionist In his 'speech before the New Jersey Legisla • ture, on Friday last, Senator Stockton came out for Protection, economy in the public cxpendi. tures and anti - corruption, in the following strain: "The question of a Protective Tarif was al ways a Democratic measure in New Jersey.— The first resolution on this subject was intro duced by Mr. Wilson. No one will doubt that he was a Democrat—a man of eminence and worth—the leader of the Democracy in New Jersey. But soon after that the party split.— One side went ofF carrying the thunder with them and it was all the thunder- they had, and they would not let the matter settled, and it became a party question. With an'annual expenditure of $50,000,0& staring us in the face, is. there any. -thing-more-ridiculous than to talk about the va • gar ies of Free Trade ! To raise this amount it would require 331 per cent. on all our imports and when we all know that this sum has been raised, it is folly to talk about Free Trade. My polities do not hang very heavy on my shoulders, and when the interests of my country are aC 'stake, I can very easily get rid of them. I have. passed the grand climacteric of life, the be•• ' the best have but a few years to live, and I live but . in my children. If I were to consult my own feelings only, and wanted to have a good time, I would kick up a row, and would be more certain in the confusion to get into the White House than lam now. But I speak for my chil dren, for my colttry, and I may say, without profanity, for my God, that I desire peace. For here is the last asylum of liberty ; destroy . it, and where will he its resting place? The most im portant measure to preserve it, is economy in the public expenditures. They have increased in the last quarter of a century from thirteen to fifty millions, and if they go on increasing in the same proportion for the next quarter of a centu ry, they will amount to two hundred millions—, nearly three, fourths of the expenses of the Brit-. ish Empire, independent of the interest on the public debt. If you don't arrest that enormous increase, you will be ruined. Its consequences will be corruption, with its hydra.head, and all its train of evils, and if they have once begun to sap the folindation of Republican:Government freedom is at an end. I want to see our country come back to the simplicity and eronorny of the days of Jefferson. It is not the money I regard, * but its consequences—corruption and other evils." —ln the sane speech, the Commodore express. ed his personal sentiments toward. Mr. IVebstee, in these words : "This is a proud day for those here assembled, and New Jersey. I feel it as a New letseyman —as a man—as a patriot and a Christian.—. Whenever I contemplate itlr. Welistt r, ray heart goes up in devout aspirations to Ifeaven, that it has endowed one of our species with such vie -tue and intellect. It is not simply for his manly form, that noble brow which seems placed there as a crown by the Almighty, but the virtue of the man. I have known hint for thirty years I lin vn II him sitting st mnn2 the wise and good in the councils of the nation ; I have sat as a boy and heard the words of wisdom falling front those lips, which I deetned - inspired. And I say it before this assembly, and before Ihe world, that if there is a patriotic heart in any man, that heart is in the body of Daniel Webster. I have heard him, at various times, discourse of public affairs in private, and I have never heard a word that might be construed against his country or her interests, or that should not emanate from a great and pure man. I have seen hint in the sports of the field, with his gun upon his shoulder following my own clogs, and whenever and where ever I have seen him, he was the same great and pure man." Terrible Disease.—We learn from Cumberland that a disease which has battled the best medi cal skill, has been prevailing, for some time past, in the Glades, the upper part of Allegany coun ty. Its approach Is known by a slight pain, which soon extends over the' system, drawing the'body nearly double, and causing the most excruciating pain to the person :attacked, who is only relieved by death, which usually takes place in a few hourS. Families have been almost destroyed by it, and we hear of an instance where a widow and three children were attack ed and died, one little child only escaping.—Bal tintore Clipper. Interesting 91rlesian Well—There is an Artesi an Well at the cotton 'Factory of JoehMatthews, Esq., in Dalfni county, Georgja,'which is 710 feet 10 inches in depth, and which discharges 600 gallons of water per minute, or 761,000 gallons in 24 hours—exceeding any well in America.— The water flows out with such force that if pie ces of stone as large as an egg, or a half dollar are thrown in, they are immediately ejected. The sand, gravel, &c. made by the auger are al so forced out by water, which is perfectly clear, limpid and pleasant to the taste. The diameter of the well is a little over six inches, and it is. Mr. Matthews' intention, as soon as he had it tubed the entire distance now completed, to have the boring continued to a greater depth. This will make it, it is believed, the most wonderful Artesian well in America. • Rccovery of a Los[ Work of Franklin.—lt pears by a statement published in a London pe riodical called the Notes and Queries, that a copy of the first work written byUenjamin Frank lin, when eighteen years of age and n journey man printer in London in 1723, has been found. All attempts to find a copy of it have hitherto failed, and it. was supposed that they had: all been destroyed. In Dr. Franklin's Autobiogra. phy, he mentions this as his first work. It was written partly in answer to SVollaston's Religion of Nature, and its title is, "A Dissertion on Lib. erty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, in a Let, ter to a friend." It is addressed to Mr. Raines) R(alph,) and concludes, "Truth will be truth, though it sometimes proves mortifying. Conrcheiti Elertion.—Seymore's ;majority fur Governor will not vary much from 000. Rettirni have been received from all but a few toitlia; and cannot materially change the result. The Senate stands Democrats 15, Whigs six. In the House the Democratic majority is forty one, and t hei r , majr,rity on Hitt ballot ME=
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