'Why. Father, and were you the ragged
ittle carrier ?'
, Even so ; is it any wonder I feel an inter
em in the boys who carry about the New
Year's Address:es ?'
•We had the promise of a New Year's
Address from Uncle Jesse ; but after read
ing Aunt Ilatti,t's story the old gentleman
says, be thinks there is enough of it, and
that it is good enough to make an Extra by
itself. Ile hopes therefore, that his,neph
cws and nieces will excuse him this time :
and he wishes them all a vervi-Jappy New
Year.'
Sale of the Public Works.
Our old friend, I Irsav K. StnoNo, has
introduced a bill into the Pennsylvania Le
gislature to provide fur the incorporation of a
Company to purchase the Public Works of
this State. The Company is to have a capi
tal stock of $300,000 of $5O each, which
shall be appropriated to the purchase of the
main line of Public Works, extending from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg. The Company
is to have possession of these works so soon
as $300,000 shall be paid into the State
Treasury, and the delivery of twelve bonds
of one million of dollars each, secured by
inortage upon the canals and railroads pur
chased as aforesaid, each bearing interest at
five per cent, and payable at yearly inter
vals. We hope this proposition, or a better
one if it can be devised, will pass the Legis
lature at an early day. Action in the mat
ter cannot be had too soon. The Public
Works will. sink the State in irredeemable
and inextricable difficulties, if the present
system of management be continued for a
few years longer. We conversed within a
few days, with cne of the most intelligent
and experienced gentlemen in this State,
who has had more to do with the Public
Works as a transporter, than any other man
in Pennsylvania. He assured us, that the
exhibit made by the Auditor General did
not show the true state of the public finan
ces, so far as the earnings of the Main Line
is concerned ; that the real condition of
things is covered NJ—and that for years
past there has been a positive loss—the rc-.
ceipts not paying expenses, so far as the
Main Line is concerned ! Ile believes there
is a deficiency of more than two hundred
thausand dollars this year—and perhaps all
of that amount last year. Ile is clearly of
the opinion that the present system must be
changed, or the State Will be bankrupted !
The amount stipulated in Mr. Strong's pro
position strikes us as low—our estimate has
all along been some sixteen to eighteen mil
lions for the Main Line. But no matter,—
Sell it at whatever it will bring. Better
save seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars interest per annum than pay two hun
dred thousand dollars to make up deficien
cies. We are glad to notice, that there is a
good feeling prevailing among the democrat
ic members of the Legislature on this sub
ject. In this County a large proportion of
that patty strongly-favor the Sale, and we
have heard it suggested—in which sugges
tion we most heartily concur—that there be
a County meeting held at the approaching
February Court, composed of citizens of all
parties favorable to the Sale of the Public
WorliS. What say the Democratic press
to this proposition ?—Laneasfer Tribune.
Death of the Russian Minister.
"Mr. Bodisco was a noble by birth, and
first entered the public service in Russia
about fifty years ago. Ile began in the bu
reau of the Nlinister of Foreign A (lairs at
-St. Petersburg, in the. twelfth class of the
Ischia, or official hierarchy, which embraces
all branches of the public service ; and died
of the 'third class, as a privy councillor, or,
in military valuation, as alieutenant gener
al. Ile owes' his good fortune principally
to having been attached, in the quality of
secretary, to Count Suchtelen, who, after the
secret interview at A bo, in 1812, between
the Emperor Alexander and Bernadotte, the
elected hereditary Prince of Sweden. resided
in the quality of an imperial commissioner,
at the headquarters of the Prince during the
campaign of 1812-'l4. With Count Such
telen, Mr. Bobisco went to Paris, and thence
to Vienna, during the famous Congress
which settled the oinks of the continent.—
The Count was appointed the Russian En
voy at the Court of Stockholm, and Mr. 13o
bisco first secretary of legation, Count
Suchtelen enjoyed great favor with the Em
perors Alexander and Nicholas, and on his
death - bed. some eighteen years ago, recom
mended his secretary to the sovereign. Al.,
ter the decease of his generous benefactor,
Mr- Bodisco was for some time Charge
Aflaires at Stockholm, whence he was sent
in the capacity of Minister to Washington.
A few years after his arrival here he mar
ried Miss Williams, of Georgetown, a young
American lany of remarkable beauty. .
her he leaves several children."
Important Change Contemplated
A bill has been introduced into the Assembly
of this State authorizing contracts for a higher
rate of interest than six per centum, The follow/
in,s arc its provisions
...Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the autbority.of the same.
That from and after the Ist day of April next, it
shall be iawiul fur any individual to contract for
and receive a greater sum than Six per centum
per annum fur the loen or use of money loaned
on notes, bond or mortgage. In all cases where
no contract is made for the rate of interest, the
same shall be deemed to be six per centum per
annum.
Section 2 laws, er pails or laws inconsist ,
cnt with this Let, are hereby repealed."
Graham's American Monthly Alaga:ine.—The
February number of this excellent American
Alonthly has already come to hand. It is a
iruly splendid number, containing some very
fine contributions. The 'lllustrated life of Gen.
Georgo IVashington,' by J. T. Ileadley, cam
irnences with this issue. The Engraving, Nature
P.r 1 the other illustrations aro good.—
L. E. Graham, 106 Chesnut el., ,Phila.
1)e Register.
Allentown, Pa.
WEDNESM, FEHARY 1,1851.
['Our friend David Lauri, , has our
thanks for valuable Legislative documents.
Court in Session
The February term of onr court went in es -
sion on Alonday last. Judges ArCartney, Dil
linger and Haas,in their seals. Parr Snylcr, Esc.
of Lynn, was chosen chairman. Several bills
upon minor cases have been found. Further
proceedings next week.
Fatal Accident.,
Oa Friday last, the 9.7111 of January, a Ger
man, named Christian Klinderchcr, employed in
the Iron Ore bed of Messrs. Balliet and Kock;
in South Whitehall township, Lehigh county,
came to his death by the caving in of a heaiy
mass of ground, completely covering him up,
and when he was got out he was a corpse.
Attention Farmers
We would call the attention of Farmers and
Mechanics to a notice, in another column, of
the meeting .of the Lehigh County Agricul
tural Society. .All that is necessary to secure
permanency and usefulness to the operations
of the Society, is the manifestation of sufficient
interest in the cause, by !how who are most
deeply concerned in its success. Let farmers
attend these meetings regularly, interchange
their views, and profit by the united experience
of all, and a vast amount of good will be ac
complished. We trust there will be a large
gathering at the meeting on Tuesday next.
A Fight in Jail.
On IVednesday last, the 25:h instant, two
Irishmen, named James Scott, a Protestant, and
Edward Crampscy, a catholic, imprisoned in
our County Jail, by some way or other got a
bottle filled with brandy, furnished by some of
their friends outside, and drawn up by means
of a string. The sons of Erin after partaking
of a good portion of the contents of the boils,
felt "boozy" enough to discuss the great ques
tion of religion. They of course could not agree
upon this important point. The discussion fin
ally ended in a quarrel, when Crampsey made
a regular " set-too" On Scott with the "stove
poker" and inflicting a number of serious blows
Ott his cranium, also by a side blow on his body
broke the glass bottle that Scott had hid under
his "jacket," the pieces of which made very se
rious cuts in his breast and side. Sheriff Weiler
was from home at the time and the females'
about the house, ran to the neighbors for assis
ance, who came in numbers and parted the
combaletits.
The Thieves at Work Again
The Harri6burg Union, of Saturday, the Dem
ocratic State organ,contains the following item :
I:RAUDS ON THE COLUMBIA RAILROAD.
"Rumors of outrageous robberies on the Colum.
bia railroad have reached us. They are of so
startling a nature as to demand immediate in
vestigation. Suspicion attaches strongly to the
Collectot's office at Philadelphia. Have the
Canal Commissioners any knowledge of the
facts? We call upon them to answer at once,
and boldly. No matter who may be implica.
ted in the transactions, the public are entitled
to the whole truth. Let us know who the
robbers are, and to what extent the State has
been swindled."
Here we have the admission of the Opposi.
tion that the D e mocratic 'Thieves,' are at their
old practises. And yet Goy. Bigler, recom
mends, in his last Message, that the Public
Works bo retained—in order, we suppose, that
his beautiful party may enrich themselves by
the 'wenlings which they afford. But what
say the people? Are they willing to be taxed
year in and year out, to support a set of scoun
drels who have the control of these works ?
Will not the honest yeomanry of Lehigh—and of
the whole State,—cry out as with one voice—
" Down with the Plunderers and get out peti
tions for the speedy sale of the improvements
that afford the opportunity of this wholesale sys
tem of plunder. This is a question 'that rises
far above pity, and every true friend of Penn
sylvania interests should act upon it as such.
Lebanon Valley Rail marl.—Mr. Osborni3, the
Chiel Engineer, submitted his estimates of the
cost of constructing the road from Reading to
Lebanon, at the last meeting of the Directors.
They concluded, however, to defer definite
action, until an estimate of the cost of the en.
tire road could be prepared. This, Mr. Osborne
thought he could have ready, by the meeting
in February. The letting. of contracts will
doubtless be made, as soon as the estimates
are laid before the Board.
Special Election fin• Congress.—The Sheriff of
Berke County, in accordance with a Writ is
sued by Governor Bigler, has published a Proc.
lamation announcing that an Election will he
held on Saturday the Ith day of February, next
for a INiember of Congress to represent said
County of Beiks in the room and stead of lion.
Henry A. filuldcnberg, deceased.
rfir We have since learned, that Hon. Glancy
Jones, received the Democratic nomination.—
The Whigs.took up ths;ir candidate on Monday
last, who it is we did not hear.
771 e People's Journal.—Alfred E. Beach, New
York ; 50 cents a velum°, or $1 a }•ear, for 12
numbers, comprising 400 pages illustrated with
500 engravings. The February number of this
monthly is now out, making the 4th of the Ist
volume. The price of of subscription is far be
low its full value—throughm!t it is interesting
and instuctive.
Montgomery's Pictorial Times, is the' title of a
new weekly paper which has succeeded Bar
num's Illustrated News, in New York. The
!Gulfs is carefully and ably edited, and contains
illustrations fully equal to Barnum' paper
while the :ceding matter is excellent.
Election of Collectors, &o
The movement in Congress, in favor of the
election by the people, of collectors of ports,
post-masters, and other federal officers, is one
that should meet the hearty approval of all true
republicans. Every good patriot sees with re
gret the immense power of executive patron
age. What Mason, and other early Virginia
statesmen foretold, has come to pass; and the
President is practically more potent than almost
any constitutional monarch. One of these far
sighted politicians, on the day when Washing
ton took his first oath of office, when asked to
give his goon wishes to "the mu. fledged con:
stitution," shook his head, saying, refering to
the appointing power, that he could not, for he
beheld "the prison under the wings." Nearly
seventy years have passed since that day, and
the feats of the old patriot have been realized-
The immense growth of the country, as he and
his school foresaw, has increased the number
of federal ofdice•holders almost to any army.—
In one department alone, that of the post-office
the appointees have risen from less than a thou
sand to more than twenty thousand. Nor is
this all. The introduction of the maxim, "to the
victors belong the spoils," has made it custom
ary to throw these appointments into the hands
of every new executive. Hence it is that the
Presidential election has become, what it was
never intended to be, and what it ought not to
be, the vortex in which state and municipal
politics, Congressional elections, and all other
elections, are hopelessly swallowed up.
But it the danger of this patronage is great al
ready, it will be infinitely more so in fifty.
years. By the close of the present century, the
population of the Union will reach a hundred
millions, and the number of the Stales will
have also greatly increased. What the patron
age of the President, A. U., 1900, will be, it is
frightful to contemplate! It requires no stretch
of the fancy to conceive that a practical cen
tralization will be our government, hall a cen
tury hence, if the present state of things is per.
mined, to Continue. Already local questions
of politics have to succomb to federal ones.—
Alembers of Congress are elected, or defeated,
not according to the real wishes offfieir consti
tuents, but in obedience to party behesis issued
from Washington. Pennsylvania has always
been a tariff State, nor is there a congressional
district in it, which, if polled, would not show
a large majority in favor of protection ; yet, for
years, the hulk of the Pennsylvania Congress
men have been free traders, 'nearly because
the fiat to that effect has gone forth from Wash
ington. We might, in a similar ivay, show
other States have succombed, to a ['resident or
['residents, through the influence of his cohorts
of office holders. The removal of Judge Brbn
son, because he would not be a mere tool, and
the meekness of the party majority in the House
under the outrage, is the last proof of executive
power and party subserviency.
The only cure for this evil is to elect all post.
masters, collectors, and other suitable officers,
by a vote of the people of their district. An
amendment to the Constitution to this effect
would bring back the Presidential office to its
true sphere. It should be a warning to Ameri
cans, that, in all ages, liberty has perished, eith
er by the slow encroachments of the executive
power on co.ordinate branches of government
by the people sinking into lukewarmness and
anarchy. The latter peril we need not fear in
this country, so long as the press is free, and
education diflused. But the former danger se
riously threatens us. Not that the executive
power is nominally any greater than it was orig
inally. The form's of the Constitution are still
what they were. The House of Congress, the
Judiciary, and the President are still, theoreti
cally, the three branches in which the powers
of the federal government are lodged. rho
practically the President is master of Congress,
and almost master of the Judiciary. In the
long run, the executive influence has always
prevailed, in every collision between a Presi
dent and either branch of Congress. No Senate
has ever been able to drive a President into
obscurity. But Senators and Representatives,
proscribed by an executive, have neatly always
been crushed in the end. Few, indeed, can
stand before an angry Prerident no matter how
righteous their cause. Duane in the past, and
Bronson in the present, are potent examples of
this fact.
But the curtailing of a baneful and excessive
Presidential patronage will not be the only good
end served by delegating the election of lederal
officers generally to the people. At present, it
continually happens, that a Whig State, or a
Democratic one, has to suffer the infliction of
federal officers of opposite politics. What is
true ot States, is true also of collector's districts
and of communities over which postmasters
preside, only to a meth greater degree. Why
should a Whig town have a Democratic post
master ? Why a Democratic town a Whig'post
master ? Surely the true republican principle
would be to give to each district and town the
choice of its own officers. There is no'deny
ing the fact, often urged by foreigners against
our federal institutions, that, in this feature,
they are essentially anti-republican. If we are
wise, if we have forcast, if . we are even con
sistent, we Americans.will hasten to amend the
Constitittion in this weak point: We therefore
hope that the reform, already proposed in Con:
gress, will be carri ed into execution.
Pennsylvania Prohibitory Convention. The
State Prohibitory Liquor Law Convention assem
bled at Harrisburg on Tuesday, about 1000 dele•
gates being in attendence. Colonel. Huliz was
called to the Chair, and great enthusiasm prevail.
ed. Two public meetings were held in the even.
ing, one in the Hall of the House of Representai
tires. and the other in the Lutheran Church.—
Neal Dow,Esq., was present in the House and
made an eloquent address. Gen.Cassey,ofOhio,
also made a great speech at the meeting held
in the church.
la" The bank note circulation of Great Brit,
taln amounts to $108,450,000.
Pa. State . Agricultural Society
This society met at Harrisburg on the 17th
inst.—in the absence of the President, Hon. A.
Mcllvaine, of Chester, taking the chair.
H. N. !WA lister, of Centre county, the chair
man of the Committee on Field Crops, read the
report of that committee, making the following
awards:
To Benjamin Covert, of Fayette county, the
first premium of $lO for the best crop of corn.
He claims to have produced 158 bushels and
7 quarts of shelled corn, pure yellow red cub
gourd, upon one acre of land—of which proof
was furnished by actual measurement. o,her
competitors did not comply •with the rules of
the Society, and their claims were ruled out.
Tu John AlcCord, of Bradford county, the
premium of $2O, for having produced an aver
age of 513 bushels of white blue stem wheat
per acre,'upon a field containing seven acres,
filly-two perches.
To Antos Stone, of Erie county, the premi
um of $lO for having produced 140 bushel., of
white wheat .by weight, on 31 acres—being
an average of AO'Bushels Per acre.
To James Sampson, of Erie County, the pre
mium of $lO, for having produced 3313 bush.
els of barley, weighing 48 pounds per bushel,
upon a field containing seven acres and ninety
six perches; being a yield of 43,1 bushels per
acre.
To John It'uthrauff, of Franklin county, the
premium of $2O, for having produced 322 bush
els of barley, weighing 48 lbs., upon 6 acres
112 perches.
The committee recommend, among other
things, that the amount of these premiums be
hereafter greatly increased, so as to secure a
a larger number of claimants. There were
(our competitors for the preinium for corn, two
for wheat, and two for bailey.
The Treasurer of the Society, Mr. George 11.
Bucher, made his annual repurt. The, balance
remaining on the operations of the last year
was $9,058 6.1. The amount previously inves
ted was a-7,011; making the total profis of the
Society, since its organization, 516,069 61.
The officers generally were reelected :
President, Frederick Mitts, and a number of
Vice Presidents, &e., C. A. Luckenbach, is
among the Vice ('residents,
Legislative Proceedings.
SENATE.
January, 23. Mr. FRY, presented three peti
tion from Lehigh county, for the incorporation
of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, of Cata.
sauq ue
Mr. FRY, offered an amendment relative to
the place of holding elections in Weisenburg
township, Lehigh county; adopted.
January, 24. Mr. HAMILTON, presented a
petition from Lehigh and Northampton counties
for a bank at Catasauque.
Mr. CRA 88, read in place a supplement to
the act incorporating the Allentown railroad
company.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. MONTGOMERY, reported a supplement
to the Allentown Iron Company.
Mr. LA CRY, read a bill to. encourage manu
facturing operations in this State.'
January, 24. An act to incorporate the Pure
Spring water company of Fogel, ville, in the
county of Lehigh.
News from Lower California
Intelligence has been received in San Fran.
cisco that a second battle had taken place in Low.
er California, between Walker's party and the
-Mexican' forces, in which the American were en.
tirely successful, routing, with about thirty men,
a force on the opposite side of about one hun_
Bred. The guns, ammunition, and a field piece
of the enemy were captured. The invaders had
acquired new courage and confidence from the
circumstance that the Attila had arrived with re.
inforccments. These have probably before this
joined the original party.
Col. Walkins, •.vith a battalion of two hundred
and fifty men, taken from San Francisco by
the Anita, has reached Encenada, and joined
the Expeditiunists. The party, strong, enough to
resist any forces that could be 'brought against
them, were ready to make an advance further
into the country:
The Governor of Sonora has Issued a procla
mation to the people of the State, calling upon
them to take up arms against the Filibusters.—
Ile calls them •pirates and robbers," and adds,
"Let them perish to the last one, and let their
fate serve as an example to thieves and rascals,
who may attempt to imtimate them."
The proclamation was issued on the oth of
November. On the day following the governor
issued an order in which he says that "a:1 strang.
era who invade the department without permis
sion will be treated as pirates."
The Sacramento Union says an expedition is
being formed in that city, and that certain mer.
chants are engaged in it.
It is understood that a company, now forming
in San Francisco, will shortly depart front the
seat of war.
Sunbury and Erie Railroad.—At a meeting of
the Hoard of Directors held on Saturday last, the
Hon. James Cooper was elected President of the
Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company. This is
an excellent selection, and cannot but give char.
acter and confidence to the prospects of the great
enterprise. Mr. Cooper.is a gentleman of nil.
questioned ability and undoubted integrity. He
is, moreover, a man of untiring energy, and in.
deed in every sense fully qualified to he at the
head of such an undertaking. We congratulate
the Stockholders, and all concerned, on a choice.
so judicious.
Urea! Snow Storm in Itionois.—A terrible snow
storm prevailed about the 10th instant, along the
line of the Mississippi and Chicago railroad east
of Bloomington, and from thence as far north as
Chicago, covering the track in many places to
the depth of eight and ten feet, cutting off, for
the time being, all communication between Chi.
cago and St. Louis, and other points. A train of
cars which left Chicago onlVednesday, the 11th
did not reach St. Louis until the Sunday follow
ing, and the passengers, some 150 in number,
hai a narrow escape from freezing and starving.
Demagogueism in the U. S. Senate
There are none so blind as those who do not
want to see, and gra:re United States Senators
can shot their eyes to self-evident truths for the
MOM paltry purposes of the demagogue, The
.Philadelphia Sun says: we regard the discus
sion brought up by a motion of Mr. Cass- on Mon,
day, to be the very quintesseheeoldemagogricisin
on the part of those who supported it, and ap
proaching as near the d!-sg,racefalty ridiculous
as we would care about designating any action
of that generally august body. The venerable
Senator from Michigan npened.the ball by intro ,
ducing the following resolation
Resolved, That the Pt esident of the United
States be requested to communicate to the :Sen
ate, as far as he may deem it compatible with
the public interests, a copy of any correspon
dence which may have taken place with the gov•
ernment of the Papal States, touching a.mission
to the United States.
Mr. Cuss supposed that Bertha had been charged
with some special mission,and he wanted to know
what it was. This was natural enough, for we
ourselves would like to know how much further
the impertinence of the Papacy has gone than
accrediting, to the President a purely ecclesias
tical functionary, who, if in a civil or diplomatic
capacity, could not so summarily dispose of
American church property as he has done. But
why did Gcn. Cass go out of the way to vindicate
the murder-spotted fiend? How did he dare,
even with his years and experience to back him
—how did he dare to rise in his place in the free
Senate of the United States, and say that he had
investigated the facts of the cold blooded assat ,
sination of Ugn Bassi, and profess himself sails.
fled that Bedini had nothing to do with Gen
Case is sent to Washington to legislate for Amer
ica, not. to apologi,e for Austrian butchers and
Romanist assassins. Does Gcn. Cass know the
facts better than the German and Italian exiles
who were at or near Bologna when the most hor
rid cruelties that ever disgraced humanity were
perpetrated under the sanction of Bedini 7 The.
people of. America will show their dislike to ty
rants and tyranny, whenever and wherever they
choose and no wretch, deep dyed in human
slaughter can ever seek our shores,' without ex
pecting to be hooted out of the country ! We
feel with the poet the wish ' , to put a whip in ev
ery honest hand to lash the rascal naked through
the world 1"
Of all the speeches made in the Senate that
day,and Messrs. Mason, Butler, Dawson, Badger,
Douglas, Everett, Adams, Petit, and others, par
ticipated, there was but one which touched the
vitality of this question ; and that was by Mr.
Weller; of California. He calledattention to the
fact that eversince the arrival of Bedini in this
country, the public mind had been agitated and
excited. The Italians and Germans who had tak
en part in the revolution of 18.18, and who had
come to this country in great numbers, believed
whether just or not, he could not say, that this
man took a part in the wrongs inflictedupon them.
Ile regretted that there slould be violence any
where. Ile did not doubt but that any man, ty•
rant or oppressor, as be may be, could have trav
elled through Georgia without in,des:ation—but
there were few Italians or Germans there to what
there were in New York or Cincinnati, and who
were an exciteable people and easily led away by
the presence of one whotn they look upon as hav
ing been their oppressorand tyrant. lie thought
it could scarcely he necessary for the resolution
to elicit front Senators a disapproval of violence.
It could scarcely be necessary to Mot m the peo
ple of their obligations to observe the law, for
the great body of the American people know full
well that there was nu safety for properly or
right but the sanctity of the law. What could
then, be the objects of the resolution ? Was it
to tell the people that they might not peaceably
assemble to express their opinions and grievarr•
cos? If so, it would not have its effect, for such
was a right too well known to - them, and if these
people charged with outrage, did nothing but as,
setnble peaceably for such a purpose, and if this
person be guilty of only one.half of what his own
countrymen accuse him, then the people were
right in what they did. This sentiment elicited
applause from the galleries. Did Mr. Cass hear
it I It was the throbbing of the American hearts
—the true American Impulse, and it ought to
have shamed Mr. Everrett, from the State of the
Puritans; Mr. Bottler, from the home of the
Huguenots, and Mr. Mason from the refuge of
the Cavaliers. The ground taken by Mi. Wel.
Icr, was that he knew nothing, of the guilt or in•
nocence of liedini, and before he could accuse
these people of having done wrong he would
have to examine whether he was guilty or not of
what his countrymen charged him. 'file resolu
tion,could not be necessary with a view to any
further legislation. If lie were here under any
diplomatic authority, the President must know
the fact. Congress, as' early as 1790, , enacted
law on this subject, reviving a penalty of three
years' imprisonment, and fine at the discretion
of the Court, for any attack, &c., upon the per
son of a Foreign Minister. If this law has been
violated, all that the President has to do, was to
instruct his District Attorney to proceed against
the otTender. His desired in no way to encour•
age a spirit of violence. He well knew that no
act could justify violence, but it was useless to
attempt to put down the people in their assem
blages, peaceably to expose their horror and in
dignation for crime, oppression and tyranny.
They may legislate at Washington as much as
they please, and talk to Romanist Buncombe,till
they arc tired, the people of the United States are
right upon ,this great question, and will never
permit a Nuncio of the . Pope to be received in
this country, for it is an office unknown to the
spirit of our Constitution arid rePugant its pu
rity. The great body of the American people are
justly indignant at the interferences of this Bed
ini, as the spiritual representative of the Pope,
in the questions of Church property among us.
Pr Alfred Iverson, of Columbus, was on
Monday elected on Me fourth ballot United
States Senator from Georgia. He is a thorough
going State Rights Democrat.
larThirly thousand men are employed in the
UniteedStalcs on iron castings; twenv IMrTe thou.
sand in the manufacture of pig i run fuur
lean tbousand in wrought iron.
Wild Race of a Locomotive
In the Cincinnati Commercial, of Saturday
last we find an account of a somewhat singular
collision on the Miami Road at Milford. The
engine of a freight train ran into the rear car of
a prissenger train,which was standing still at the
depot. The Comm e rcial says :
.4 When Mr. Watt; engineer of the mail train
heard the cissit of the collision he supposed his
own train would be run over, and with his as - .
sistants, sprang off The furnace had just been : ,
crammed' with wora, and there was a full head .
of steam on. The force of the blow uncoupled'
the locomotive and tender front the tmgr , ,,age car,
at the same instant Jerking the lever and throw
ing the throttle Valve wide open ! Awn . ; slied . tii';
locomotive like an arrow,or,if we might so say,:
like a hat of omnipotence, sweeping down the
track at seventy miles an hour! God help any
hapless train met or overtaken; help the city;
but full fourteen mile, below, for thakdistance
will be devoured in fifteen minutes! The es.ca'p °
.
ed engine came howling by Plainsrifle, visiGle
for an instant to the appalled vittagers,iwilched:
off into tire double track, as lightaingfrom one
steel rod to another divergent, and thundered on'
to the city whose spires might now have been
seen from the iron disc of this fiery comet ; but'
there was none to see, for rider, or driver, or liv
ing human soul had the engine near. Happily
the furnace door flew open, the draught ceased,.
and a little way above the upper engine honse,"
on a heavy up grade, the locomotive's breath was'
spent ; it came to a dead stand, and stood the re
silent and cold, forming as mach a part of the
still wintry landscape as the whitened rock and
shrouded trees on the hillside above."
Legalizing Dhseclon.—The medical faculty of .
New York are making an effort to induce the.
Legislature to legalize dissection. It seem that ,
while the medical colleges are required by law'
to teach anatomy, they are forbidden by another .
law to impart that knowledge in the only way int
which it can be acquired—that is by dissection',
—They ask that the bodies of all who die in pris
ons and in the almshouses be given to the col
leges fur anatomical purposes. The subject is
much discussed in the newspapers, but while ad
mitting the necessity of the medical universities
twin provided with bodies, the feeling is against
granting the prayer of the memorial.
Marriage at a Father's Death Bed.—Majar S.
R. ILibbie, First Assistant Postmaster General
is lying hopelessly ill, of consumption, in Wash
ington. It is said there was an affecting se , n
in the sick charinber of this gentleman on the 19th
inst. His daughter Mary was there, in the pres•
enee of her prostrate and almost dying father,
united in holy wedlock, by the Rev. Mr. lltiuler.
to Nathan Reese, Esq., of Newburg, N. Y. The
fond father, apprehending his speedy dissolution
requested that the nuptials should be celebrated
before he had seen the last of earth. Major Hob
ble was at one time a member of Congress from
New York, and as an officer of the Government
it is universally conceded that he ever faithfully
anti assiduously discharged his responsible du-
Son.
Arrethd fin. Seduction.— Deput y
Sheriff 8) lies arrested in Pelham, Mass., on Sat
urday n ight, Bev. B. W. Wright, the pastor of the
Methodist church in that town, on a charge of
seduction and adultery, and committed him to.
jail. As we get the story, Mr. Wright wrote tri,
W.lberham, to a young lady, at a school there,
requesting her to meet him at Palmer Depot.—
This young lady was the daughter of a deacon of
his own church,and had previously, on the occa
sion of his wife's illness, resided in his family.
At Palmer, he purchased two tickets from the
New London railroad and night Sound boat, with
state room Geniis. The young lady was on the
spot and they proceeded to New York together.
A day or two after, they returned; he ornamented
with a pair of whiskers, and she sitting before
hon. On arriving at Palmer, the whiskers, were
taken ill and he.proceeded home, while the girl
went back to school, and reported that she had
been home. Suspicion, however, was on the
scent, and the girl at last stated the whole terri
'Wale stoty.
D.•cisinn of the Supreme Court of Pa.—ln. an
action by husband and wile, fur the trespass in
taking her separate goods, it is unnecessary to
prove property in the wife. The allegations of
the husband and wife, that the property is hers,
is sufficient to make out a prima_ ficia case, and
a trespasser who does not claim under either of
them has no right to dispute it.
A Large rerdiel.—The suit of Thomas H. Silk--
man against Davis & More for injuries received'
by plaintiff, by the upsetting of the stage coach
belonging to the line of stages of which they are
the-proprietors was brought to a close in the U.
District Court, eight before last, and the jury re
turned a verdict yesterday morning of 0,400,—.
The accident happened at Vernon, Wis., in 1850
The plaintiff fractured the elbow joint, Irons
which he almost lost the the use of his right arm.
One point decided by the Court, we understand, .
was the fact that -the plaintiff had been maltreat.
ed by his physician, was noCto be taken into •
consideration by the jury in mitigation of dama
ges, as he must be supposed to have employed
the best medical assistance in his power, and the
stage company was therefore responsible for all
the consequences of the injury. Mr, Silkman is
a merchant of New York city.—kiftuuukcJan. 7.
A Mata Shot by his IV/A.—Sarah Cru field has
been arrested at Leavenworth, Ind., charged with,
shooting and killing her husband; She alleges.
that her husband was absent from home,, and
that alter night she heard some one trying to
get into the house, when she seized a gun, tired •
through the '6or, and shot a maw through thu
heat t, iviur proved to be hes husband.
Ottr !'ti Work&—The Actual Cus,l,of the
Public Work,. of Pennsylvania is not less than
(Mr, II UNINIED 11111.1 Q NS Oli DOLL:ARS.
as can he readily Show t ? bY.s, =femme: to the
offAcial records. Nearly ITU this sum is still a
debt upon the State: Thii mipii ratherdear
for the whistle.
r3^Pennsylvania maintains ma' pm le
schools nt a cost of a little more awl nflatilimil
c!°Piqs a year.