COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
17, 18 II.
llltODE ISLNU.
Wt have hervcd wilh great gralifi
e.iiion. the 'i ked rxpirMiim which Hi'
a i.n innii iiiou at V..slungion has givei I
of iti 1 'np'hy wiih the popular caus I
in Rhode Island 1 " ih appointment.
lhal
hjv hern m " '"r-
Thev have all been ee lecled I'om moi)t
the active members l the oUge par
friends of tiuveritm
Ijf, llie
0ir .. II
Tne collector al Piovidi'iio; n nez
i.:. i. Wiit.r.l who was seua'.or under
.t. P-nnle' Constitution, and who ha.l
slo, with firmiieif Kin to mai wmt-i r,de him in public eanmvion io
Jus distinguished lov. Doi r, leimed o jUoy hj jnfj,,, nc in the Senate to iu
tika advantage of the Amneity Act, and M) hj (nietic peace & wring the hearta
to take special oath of Allegiance. so ) r,j, Wife snd childreo were moat in
thai he lemains, we believe, to thia day urously circulated over half the Stale
under indictment. This couise, by ih Kiirr;eij mmuitously tothedeak of every
, . . . u:.ul
.., i. in no resneel at variance with a
full recognition ind support of the ptes- inrown purposely in the way ofhisfim
ent Constitution of the sine, y. The officer who held the warran'
The new Post Master of Providence imt Wit urged to arrest him in
ti Welcome II. Saylea, who was the own house, in the presence of hia
Speaker of the House ol K-!)tesentstive
.11 nil A I
iha People's Cjnsiituti n.
The new Mirshall is Uuirington An
ahnnv. who was Sheriff ot f rovtaenct
the same su'honty.
And finally -W. A. Durgees, Gov.
r.rr. ,u voted triend. snd his counsel
on his trial, has been appointed the Die-
will n'lu'.'V . ,
Neither. r. Ssyles oor Mr. Durgess
nrioinallv membes of the Demo-
critic Pjrty; they were formerly Whigs
, r t tiiiTiaira haul
whom l ne cause ui
;Kro::ht over -nsturally snd nuy into
,hmr nmner nssittan as
dsmocrats.where
we hsve no doubt they will now always
remain with the ssme unflinching ae-
votion to ths persecuted csuse of demo
.t; nrinrinlea in their state.
TK.,a oin ha .us doubt thai Dorr
..will ha liberated henorably and uncon
ditionally by the legislsture recently
. alecled. The current 01 tne puonciee.
' inT,!M: " :h
" 10 ,ne.3li,f " Tl ' 6 I ? " ,
irontter in
inl otrciion. ii ow...
iVinotmn. where there was no
hn
f renreaentatives st the Jste
-lcrtion.
. . .
wo liberation men hare been eleeteu
r..n.iAn hpfnrp
on seeona inai.wi ...-.
repor.ea ss n.v.nB ;-:;' .
. , . Wh s n
innii out there wse
'00
iCiloitc
jsi... . ... ? Sj'
The official role has just ibeen deciar
to, and Chsr'es Jseeson is relecied Go
tereor by 140 msioriry over ill. The
rest of the ticket from'4000 lo 6000 ms
iori'T.
The Providenee Osjetle, of Tuesday
announces that the supreme Court mei
at Bristol on Mondsy, when Messrs
Bosworth snd Heath, , previously cjn
Tided of an offence sgainst the Algerint
law whose sentences - were posponed,
were brought up, sentented lo sn im
priionmedi in Ihe Bristol jail, snd com
milted. The Gazette says:
These gentlemen, it will be recoiled'
ed, got a postponement of sentence for
the purpose of petitioning the General
Assembly for their discharge, but, as
is known, without success. Their im
prisonment jiiht stthis lime, and after
the people of this State have by theit
solemn verdict, declared a cardon to
all the friends of Mr. Dorr, and an act
of almost unprecedented boldness, nol
to say atrocity; and if not rtbuked by
the immediate, unconditional liberation
of Mr. Dorr, and an act of general am
nraty by ihe Assembly now in session,
msy tend to renew those -animosities
which all ihe lovers of peace, snd of
rourse the Liberation party, had sup
posed were buried forever.'
The Legislature of Rhode Island has
tiljoarned wiihoot palling a law for the re
lief of Governoi Dorr. The Atgerines ate
riatrrmir.td to hold on until the laat gasp,
That will soon come.
Prof. Huneti, ol England.has invent
tl a sort of Greek fire. It consists of a
liquid similar lo alcohol, in which the
osygen is replaced by arsnic. It ignites
the moment it is exposed lo the air. It
any vessel filled with it, like a class 01
iron g!ob, should be thrown upon the
dccM or into the pons of a ship t
would ignite the moment the vese
truck any hard substance, and the in
flimmttble liquid instantly would be in e
fcjaje. iha atmosphere st once be
comes filled with clouds of white arsnic
tf whieh a deadly poison is evolved
and inhaled. Being heavier than, snd
Insoluble In wster, it could not be rx
lingoisfted, end, of course, it bicomex
fatal to all within its influence. A
dreadful Implement in the art of war.
It II said thai onions will really add
(0 tha fragrance ol flowers. Plant a
ir! onion near a rose hush, so as to
-touch Its roots, snd it will wonderfully
IfCrfSfe Ihe od jur of tic fljwerj. Thi
1; s rin;, l) Ir.".
From ilia Faston Argos.
Th lone tilked of ease of the Com-
mnwgtlth vsJutrEHsotrK. IIkckman
. wai concluded on Friday evenmf
ii i ii.. ...i .......
iii, Tins, II will oe rccyuecou,
in indictment for adultery sgiiosl our
Snn'or for this District, sn
which hai made much noise through'
h Commonwealth. Hie charge mr
,.. .u.,,,,,1 oV reckless snd deeper
f,ction of political enemies throul
hi. medium of a enll more recities
neij which ii:)on all occasions took hi
itiili for granted and spoke of him at
hough he were already convicteu. me
.ihlie mind wai poisoned urn ucts
.reverted mens' opinions were fore
IuIIhiI. iha vocibularr of vile epithet
it exhsusted.end theao alanden cal-
,iile,i tnA no doubt intended to
(16'
' .. . ... .I-
mpmi, ,, 0t ih- Leaislaiure, and even
wife BnJ not ,0ip8,k (0 him atone
Evei v device that malienity could in
vent waa resorted lo, lor the purpose
f Persecuttne him and forestalling o
l.inion n to his uuilti and no doubl they
Lere l0 , certain extent successful. On
Vvdneadav lat the Jury were sworne
t0 lry ,he causej ii wss fully, fairly and
hv frinrf. Some 50 witness
mwi-w6-..j , . i
were examin8d, snd the result has been
. mQg, iriumnhant acauiial. The ver
(Jicl whic), wai ifot Guilty and iht
n j . jA A,r ' ttiat fine
irosecuiurs myuy c
h,, which the Jury unanimously concur
anj hid it not been for the q uestion
Lf CQtlt anj (0m9 difficulty ss to who
w ,he res pr0aecutor wouia nave
been rendered Dy
the Jury wilhou
leaving the Box,
SEVERE HAIL STORMS.
The past month has been rem'rkabl
forseveVal violemhail storms and loi
Jn.does in differenl sections of the coon
. ,
eclTy. une occurreu ai "u."
Li., on me mem 01 tne ioin uu
m l. 1 P i L ..II
I...U..U ids kuilflinol lore (
H -
line ireeiops, anu ciumcu u
l a a J . . . . I. l . Aiiarianl
.....i. d ki
. ... B:n.houie. Qn the
Hnu ilirec nrzrues iu ucin
o a - " .
2o:h ult. tornado passed over jjuu.iu
mail tun iiouaes 'rtcia . uot.iu-rtu;
several lives lost. On Friday last
great hail-siorm occurred at Hollidsys
burg. lis direction wsseastern or nr h
eastern. Other towns also suflered
thai vicinity. On Monday evening
week a severe hail gtorm occurred
Hartford, Md. It raged wjih terrific
fury, prostrating large trees, throwing
down lences to a considerable extent
md besting the wheal and other grain
mlo the ground. Some of the ha
clones were ss large ss a hen's egg, and
generally of the size ol a hulled hicory
nut. 1 he ssme storm appears lo have
passsed over Louisa courthouse, in Va.,
where it was equally violent
A CUKIOUS ANIMAL.
A letter was read before Ihe Geologi
cat Convention giving a description of
curious animal found in the Mimmoih
Ravine as il is called, near Natchez
which is styled the nondescript;' its
head was 18 inches long and 11 inches
wide; there, was a place for a liunk
ke that of an elephant; ihe tusks were
11 inches long, Ihere were no (races of
any eye-sockets; nor formina for the
passage ofan optic nerve; no place for
eyes at an; it was a blind animal; hail
10 leeth; ita foreleg W8S S feet lonc.and
very powerful; ihe bones were com
pletely fossillizsd, and were vry fer
uginous.
Seven years go. iheie was a family
in ISew York worth five millions of
'lollars. Properly fell every where,
io all appearance, utterly ruined. It
noithy head soon died aflei warJi.and a
leep gloom settled on Ihe prospects ol
the survivors. We now learn, thai by
me recent advances of the real estate
the assignee has been a ble lo clear ihr
existing incumbrances, and lo hand
over three hundred thousand ilolljra lo
the heirs-ai-law
A cure has at last been found for lock
jaw. The remedy is electricity, whicl
was snccerafully tried, the other day, in
iew j urn. ine patient was a young
.voman, in whom the diseese had been
brought on by cold and fatieue, and tin
jaws had beer, closed 5 days. Thi
electro-galvanic apparatus was applied
to both angles of the jnw, and had not
made 40 revolutions befoie Ihe com-
laiut was entirely removed.
It is said that by
planting lansey a-
pencil trees, the
effectually driven
round Ihe looif of
peach worm will be
Jit Xacittn httnmt in th$ Jlubum
Prison. Qtten, the Reformed Gambler,
recemly mado an excutsion through the
Auburn State Priaon. lie gives the follow
ing account of hit interview with t murde
rer.
On my return to the prison office 1 wai
introduced to the chaplain, Ilav. O.K. Mor
i ill, which reverend gentleman informed w
ihat a man by the name of Wyatl, then con
fined in one of the cella for the murder ol
Gordon, on llie 18th of Mareh. in lite Au
burn Slate Priaon, hail conlmed to hin
.i..i t.. ku,l liuail a nuinlilflr ljprl vein in I
the South and West, and he would like 1
hnuld call nnon him. 1 aucomnanied him
io the cell of the murderer. The door was
thrown upon ila grating hinges, when llu
reverend gentleman introduced me as an c-
quaintanceol bis wno nau iravcneu U
everal years, anu liiougm uui ne ( yij
ouiuoe g.au iuduu.o... ....... -
lit. I . 1 i . . aiinjA rain lltl a I 0
I,, ui.. hnnv io iee me. and askea llu
i,i he aeaied. Alter a abort diaconrae rela
live io the diuerent rlaaaej of men then in
connnemeni, i iau m.u w,i..,u
. . ..I II.. 1. . I I. m f, lkiirail
... hi. i,...u ihmuffh the South. He told
,,.... .
Ui: 1 ..barf him lifliv l.in( II I
tml been enaiKi'd in thai n.farious busineis?
la said twewe or tl trieen years, l aaxeci
him if h knew maiiv cambltrst He said
he did.
1 isked him if he ever knew one by the
name of Green, He said he did. I asked
nia mime He answered 'John;' said he
, . . .
i L : - : . IQQ1 O A and R anti a 1 1V hlfll
Knew nun in wti v,a"" "a
.,iq.o i. si i.miii. luflkiidhini iie
III 181 " ' " " I
imimatfl with Green. He said he knew
uirn as oneirambler knew another I asked
I " II. : ll aA.1 If I Hfnillf' .lam'
I l UToreu nun. no ..iu u
n the light he would tell me. 1 did so.-
i. I Linked I k th man. I Inlil him
n rb u i iiiun.u a ... ........ - - - .
hv ihe name of W vait. He said I did not,
hat Wyatt was nm nureai nime, no men
old me' another, which waa not his real
... . i'i 1 1 .i
name.
and asked me if I did not hear of a
man being murdered near Si. Louis, in ihe
year 181. and ol two men oeing arresieu
hoth tried and convicted, one having a new
irisl pianud him, the other being huug. 1
iold him thai 1 tnougni I nau, lie imu ur
was the nun that had the new trial granted
. . P. . . i . i i i f r . i l
, mai nau u Bra"eu
and was acquitted; 'and, snd ne, iney
huna- ihe wrone man; he waa innocent: 1
am ihe euilty man, but they hung him and
cleaied me,' 'Uut,' says 1,'yoti were un-
.r dinerem name .... m. .
. . -l.ll n I a. I list '
n ..;,( .Yss. bv none of these names do
" .i - ' " . h ., m ,e,l num. vou are
yuu Miuw i.ivi
rmilisr with. Your name, said he, 'j
kntw in the year 1832, the gamblers called
vou 'John, but Jonatnan is jou reji name.
My curiosity was highly excited at lie
::'Z: . e increase of it when he
. .....n.ni.m ni in nuinipri-r. mill
to d me his real name.
tore me a Itvin? msrv'er. "' IT nfve ' niVrffefil
.... ,1,. m.n hut ihstl never knew "liin.pnd failhluliy
secrecy as io his re! name until alter hisvo'ded entangling alliances on Ihe one
execution. 1 interrogated hira on hi firsi
-teps in vice, ,nu nov ne oecame eo nar-
dened.
1JQ IUIU IIIO 1W IVlllCIIIIJCl IUO llCdl
. In . r.a In waw.aw.k.. . 1. . .....
menl he had received from llie Lynchers
. . . Tf I l t J I l
man ai vicKsourg. i am, out my em
could scarcely credit reality. 1 had known
him in 1832. 3, 4, and in the eaily pnri ol
'35, as a barkeeper in Vicksburg. He wa.
never a shrewd card player, bul at thai limr
he was considered an inoffensive yomh
I he coffee house he kept was owned b
North, who with four others were execuied
on llie 5th ol July, 1835. by Lynch law
Wyail and three others were lakei on the
morning of the 7ih, stripped and one thous
and lashes given lo the four, larred and
feathered, and put into a canoe and set a
drill on ihe Mississippi river- It makes my
mood curdle and my flesh quiver io think
il the suflenng r.ondiuon ol these unlortu
nate men, set adrift nn the morning ol llu
in oijuiy, wnn ine oro'iing sun upon
their mangled bodies. 1 wo died in aboui
two houts ifter ihey were set afloat, Wyaii
and another remained wilh their hands anil
feel bound forly hours, st iTering ninre than
tongue can tell or pen describe, when they
were picked up by some slave negroes, who
started the two survivors lo their nunrics.
His companion died before they arrived.
Wyatt survives lo tell the horrois of ilir
Lynchers last. He told me seven murders
had been occasioned by tln-ir unraeicifu
treatment to him, and one innocent man
huog. I know his testuinents to be true,
for I had known him btfore 1835, and bit
truth in other particulars cannot be doubled
He murdered Ii s seventh man, for which
rise he will be executed
WORLDLY WISDOM.
Do you fate the news paper?' Yes.
'What ont?' 'Any one I can lav my
hands on.
The above, though good, is not quite
m good ss its original, 'lake a wife,
om,' said Kichaid IJrinsley Sheridan.
io his wild son Tom, Ihe father of Mrs.
IT. m . r I
.orton, ms ne a wile anu reiorm.
With all my heart, sir,' replied Tom
innocently, 'whose wife shall I like?'
A PICTURE OF WAR.
Durine the wr of 1812, we cantured
horn the nnlish 56 armed vessels, car
ying 888 guns; besides 2369 merchant
ships, mounting altogether 600 guns
i nere were, moreover, zh uritish vef
els, rating C74 guns, lost on our coast,
rrobihly there was about an equal num
ber of American craft carried into th
Hiiiish ports as prizes. We have thti
a loss of 5000 vesselc, lo tiy nothing ol
their cargoes, as the result of a war
I'.hat did ool lasl S yens.
L'glLS'l.'HIUm..
"truth without seas
li.1TVHIt.1V, JlaV IT, IMS,
Fee mills
FOR
JUSTICES AND CONSTABLES,
I'rinted on slieel for the purpose of Post
ing up in iheir Oflices,
FOIl SALE AT THIS OFFICE
t.-7.irhe i,aw reaiiiiPi evorv Justice and
Ljonalable to have Ins bill of feespoated up
0Ujte
.nnnIVTMPMTanvmiVIi!RNnn
.n ' .on '
SHUNK.
fin. John N. Purviance. of Duller
- ir.l
"D
L'l
T-l l.,rinrl
of Bradford
iJUII. mn. j-i.....
county, to be Surveyor General.
1 11 U M A3 A. I'U.oiUrt.
Our representative in reviewing his course
in llie liegisiaiuie wnnci mh juo. v.u.
.. ff I ..... I .. ... I... mai II1I
for feeling a complacent aatisfaelion and an
IIUI IVHIMIS
1
itnnrM n-ilfl
honorable p.iae
He has acted throughout
He has fulfilled all the
mosi wonimy.
...
pledges made prior lo his election; he has
. .. . .1- lllc
fn r.nme iid io r e riucciauuu u .
f.illu rnme nn lo the expectation o
. . . anJ hg repreg(n,cJ llie county abh
'"V r
Mr. Funston's vote last fall
was, lor him and for the cause he represen
ted, a moil brilliant and decisive triumph,
and he hat shown himself tu be worthy ol
ibe vote then given him. by his legialative
uourse and conduct, ilpon our local ques
(inn. his ennrse of dutv wss plain, anJ it
was faithfully followed. He alisres lsrgel
u . I
in the honor of having brought los success
f..l ,..mi.,i. . far the LeirUlature is
- "
Uneerned.tlie just measure of removing the
public buildings from the eeof the Loun
ly lf) ,he ctnirt; and he will be favorably
.
.,! Ui...llv remembered bv our citizens
' .. . , ,
hereafier, for Ins act.ve and auceeaauu ex
i ... ii . .i, ,
eriimis in mis goou anu mrnmruu. wu.n
rerno?I Upon other queiions, Mr. F.'s
j v .ps )are been commenitabie
He has civen lo the honesi
Ldminis.ra.ionof Francis R. Shunk sue.
"
ifiunsimcin anu ciicigci. ur,. -
land and biiier enmities on ihe other, ha
i,eBn creditable lo him. and
Agreeable tc
1 '
hose whom he lenresented. Mr. F. ii
tternly honesi and faithfully firm; always a
his post, and always ready to discharge his
,tJ(y. His modesty is, wilful, equal in his
nenl, and he is never found acting as the
rumpterofhis own fame. As juJicioi.s
is he is firm, as intelligent ss he is patriotic
snd as modest as he is talented; Thomas A.
Funston has lived thus long lo be respectrd
is a citizen, and he will live hereafier lo be
idmired as a Representative
Connecticut The message of Governor
llaldwin was delivered on Tuesday. Th
itnances of Ihe State are represented to
n a flourishing condition, and there was
balance in the Treasury, upon ihe 31st of
March, which terminated ihe fiscal year, ol
125.300. The sum permanently invested
in stocks, and applicable lo ihe civil list,
$100,400. The sum of $5,000 was appro
priated lor the insane poor lbs lasl year.&nd
JOno for lie deaf and dumb.
Twenty nine beneficiaries have been sun
ported at the Deal and Dumb Inst tution
luring the year past. The number of nri
loners now confined in Ihe Connem
State Prison is 101, of whom 176 are malef
anu 18 females. There were recived into
the Tnson during the past year 57. Th
entire expenditures of the establishment
wiinin that period have been $10,982,05
and llie earnings of the prisoners have
mounted lo 519,284 68, leaving a surplus
of $8,401 03, of which 0,173 30 accrued
during the first three quariers, and $2,128
D I during the last quarter of the year end
ing on Ihe 31st of March Lit, The educs
r i
uon ninuoi l onnecticut amounts lo l)2.0EI
323 77, of whish was distributed duriiit
ihe pssl year $115,730 20 amoi.ff 1058
school districts into which the territorv i.
,1;..;, i..,t '
RS-5BEH5?3
MILITIA LAWS.
G The lawa telaiing to the Militia ha
)een so olten altered and amended of late
.1. n, , . i - .1 . ! 'LI. . I
uini i is annuel impossioie to Keep pace
with them. The act of the Legislators of
1844 required minors between 18 & 21 to
lo duty, fe subject them lo a fine The law
if 1845 repeals that section and leaves it as
it originally stood nol requiring minors to
do duty, or subjecting them io a tine.
smji l
The Jonipelier Watchman estimates
ihe value of ihe sugar ciop of Vermont, the
present year, at 1 ,000,000 lbs.
THE GREAT RACE.
The Great Rice botween Fashion and
eytonacome off on the Union Louise,
iong Island, on Tued.y last -reylom.
winning llie 3 firsl heals.
Peytona's lime firsl heat 7 minutes
39 seconds second heat 7 ininuies Hi
semnds This, is not ss good time as was
made between Roslon snd Fashion.
I- .!
UmttJ States and Mexico. The Wash
ingion Union of Thursday evening.saye ihe
ublie Ledger, in publishing M laie for
eien news, taxes occasion to coneci Bmr
of the misapprehensions of the London
rimes as to tfie want of preparation in ihe
United States for war, which the times con
iHKii x irnnd onnortunitv for Mexico lo
n ' i '
take advantage of in order to prevent annex
slinn. It is amusing to read these diatribe
of ihe London papers, snd see how little
txey know of the spirit, enihusiaum sr.n
nnsnimitv of ihe American nenple when
war is talked of. Tlioy have no idea thai
in the United States, every man is a soldier
snd thai every man would be found battling
for his country and his fireside. The Times
lays greal siien upon the fact that we have
bul 9000 troops in the standing army, Noi
one of these men can be spared from tin
garrisons on the coast, and of course wi
should not have a single soldier to send t
Mexico! Where then, it asks, are we u
ibtain the twenty or twenty five ihousanr,
nen which would be necessary io march tf
Mexico! The auswer is furnished by the
Union, and il is worthy of the consideration
of those who profess lo be fiiends of Mexi
o, and do nol wish to see the whole ol
hat bejulifu'. e iuntry 'annexed' to ihe U.
Slates. 11 is as lollows:
'Let nol Ihe London Times first blindly
lnrnive itself, and then deceive ihe Mexi-
ans. We should nol want twenty five or
iweniv thousand men, but len thousand
nen would be sufficient; and such gallam
tm( enterprising spirits as the iccming valley
of ihe Mississippi could send lorm, in ies
lhan three moiniis, would be sufficient lo
,)vemin the whole country. What! nol men
notigh? Why, let ihe United Stales but
sound hei clarion and display her flag upon
ihe banks of the Mississippi Iflt hr but
ay to this man, 'Go to the capital of Mex
,co,' and to these men, 'Go with your wives
mil children to the region of S.mla Fe,'
40(1 io anotherMarch with your neighbors
to the delirious banks cf ihe Colorado, ?ur
Cililomia.'and they will not only have vo1
unit era enough lo answer to the call, but
h keeping men back, not in sending men
forward. Does England really desire, by
thu fanning Ihe flame into a Mexican war,
lo see us lake California; and nol only take
it, bui keep n? A worse than Egyptian
darkness his come over her land, if she is
ruled by such infatuated counsels as ihi!.
oracle ol ihe 'London Timea' would preach
up to her people.'
The Dublin Freeman's Journal.holds the
following language respecting the present
difficulties between England and Atmrica.
It is somewhat different in its poiiiive and
lative calculations from other British au
lliorities:
The receding of England from the posi
.un biic nuu irfurii hi; 1)111 I e.;13 IS (let plyl
B.gn.nin, aim nmory may nereaiicr use n
.a . i i. . i .
narv nower. Her greatest ai.ntl. -n h.
put fonh upon EngUnd's own ocean do -
main. A quarter of a century ago, when
uuhi.uu w- auppoaeucapapieoi arininiiai
..6 .i.i. ..me i.iuiiuo ui mucin; uy a single
stroke of h.Tfin-and ihe relative dimen
sions of their navies justified ihe sunoosi
uon tne younger nation seized the knife
. . .
neiween nsr leeili. dashed la meet her ene
. . . .
m on hir finpnt vfii iiu' n nlMinuni oriil
. r 1 '
a Bimnlirur vain 1 . t Mia . . 1 . . f . L -
j - ...... viv.iii. in,niiu iwoii
:rimiuned (he deeo on ivhirh iU.,
cled.
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America is belter grown now. Her com
mercnl navy covers every sea. and iis oual
ines icavcu an rivalry tar oeiiino. Ureal af
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uae ueen hit at-Vjuces in population and I
weatui, her progrcs in coinmerce has f.
nn inooen tnese. I lie niaralime strenct
of u nions is no longer inemured bv count
ing their sh ps of var, bul by soundintr th
dtipths of that source whence the inilitan
marine is lo be supplied their commercia
navies. England is mightier at sea thai
France, nol because thai for every 101
one of Louis Philippe's rov?l navy. Viclo
na i navy numbers 120 or whaiever elst
may be the propoition of the excess but
becsuse the commercial tonnage of Franrt
heing but 600,000, thai of Enpland Bmounit
. . . wi i iuiii i
iojuuu.Uv", U- the same lmdarJ thi
narnime strength of blnifland and that rr
the United Stales may be tumpared, bki
they stonu ihust'ngland has 3,000.001'
America hns ilteady 2 000,000 1 Thi
is ine re.mive position, no 0 ronntrit'..
whose tlisianrp hss Ini.g mainlsined a sin
lonary proportion, out of countups. th.
second placed of whom is gztm upon the
I rsl hv ciri.lp uln.n,, in,.,ll.l I.Vf
im.iti.iuiC. Ill It. P I
ears, perhaps twenty vears certainlv
in reverse uinr position in the race
'England will not go 10 war with Amer
of Oregon; and barrel, on acoun. f anv ,
viu ii i nut uu iicruur.i n
thine else thai the New World .ontains. 1
'bugland will he especially enutious of
K..ii.g iu war wnn Amerna. or ttas)iini
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UMt" Bjjunin mo luuipati coiisiitbilon
if her States, when she reflects thai A men
a It a country wilh whom foreign nations
ire ambitious to become united, while she
herself is a country from whose nxrcilesa
tripe kindred nations struggle lo be releas
ed.
England! keep cool don I go lo war.
Ita content to show your abhorrence or
slavery by robbing your people of two an
nual millions ai home, to put tnem in ine
pockets of ihe ex slave dealers of the Wi-si
Indies. Do not exhitit your philanthropy
ly dashing ynur brittle empire against the
iron clamped federation of America.'
s-BSMeeHBHaee
The Greatest Draught Ever Made over
tnv railroad in the world, was made on
ruesdav. by Win. Morris Si Co.'a new
engine, ihe 'Atlantic' over Ihe Pottsvilla
ud Philadelphia road. The Mnera Jour
nal says;
The Atlantic' started front Schuylkill
Haven on Tuesday wilh 150 iron cars,
weighing 390 tons, and containing 744 tons
I cwl. of coal total weight, exclusive of
weight of engine, 1,134 tons 1 cwt. This
enormous train and weight she started with
out aid. and during the whole draw from
Schuylkill Haven to Philadelphia, she nev
rtr once slipped a wheel, or required assist
ance from olher engines, bul petiormed ner
vorK none anu utauviiuny, mm mi a bhui.c.
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time than has been made before over the
oad by any engine with a coal train. She
uoke but two couplings in the whole
Iraw between Schuylkill Ihvesand Phila
lulphta. Hanging A roan has been hanged in
North Carolina for stealing a pais of sus
penders worth, perhaps, two shillings.
What can be the guiding spirit of her legis
iators we know not, lo permit the barba-
rous code of British origin yel lo deface
'ier statue books. Il is quite lime, for the
take of our entire national dignity, that the
laws of all (lie Stales should conform lo the
lictales of reason and humanity. It sterns
lardly credible that, in some of the States,
there should be an effort made by a strong
and increasing parly to abolish capital pun
ishment, even for murder, while, in another
State, il exists for petty larceny. In the
reign of Henry VIII twenty two thousand
persons were execuied for small offences.
The people were kept poor and ignorant,
and hence needy and deprived; accordingly
small thefts were universal, though the pun
ishment was so lerrible. The prosperity
growing out of good government is the
source ol diminished crime, nol cruel pun
ishments. Mall Lemurs vf ioij rue roiiowlng
are the mail lettings for 1845, as given in
ihe Madisonian: Maine Coach and torse
service lei lo contract al less thin present
price paid, by 828,836 per annum; New
Hampshire, $20,001 Veimonl, 822,721;
Massachusetts, $10,124, Rhode Island,
$2 463; Connecticut, $11,053; New York,
$91,702, Total, $105,990. The stale of
the bids on the railroad and sleamboat
routes is such, thai that branch of the ser
vice in llie States abov e named excepting
the Hudson river route, which has been let
at a reduction of costj remain yel lobe as-
R'ned 10 con,rac,
BOSX999
I m.
J lie Texas Question Settled. The de
1,1 Mobile, now in session, settles all doubt
H'011' 'annexation.' We learn from the
Herald, thai a few days ago Judge Dragg
decided Ihat Texas was n part of the Uni
., Pi;.,i im,. .
ltJ Stalesl il" question came up by a
J,,f0' pe"oning to be excused from ihe
l - c . . . .
l,0"ormance oi nis assigned duly, on ihe
i...
plea ihat he waa a citizen of 'JVa n.o
1 i . i i .
ijiiiitrfl nmsrpii mm tn i.ii .1
I b" .-ivm tiim tone jiim ecu l 111 llllf
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cioyci., giving (or his
I . ...
reason that lexis was a pari of the Union,
"'d all her ciliaens liable lo be called nnon
10 do dutv riii,n, r it..:...i
Siaies.
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Duelling in Louisiana. A disposition
eems lo prevail in Louisiana lo pul an end
o the practice of duelling. The Slate Con
enuon lias incorporated a section in the
general provision of the Constitution, which
nsirancnises and renders ine iirihl f,r
ny civil office under the State, any per-
-
-uu ni.uoiioii ucicdiier ngiH a iiuei, ue a
ilrl ii, .Lall I. ...... f, ..L. I
second at a duel, or carry a challenee to
flg,', a dueI A Jllsl a"d salutary pro-
. . .
"sion.
The Secretary qfffar. Wm. L Mar.
7. ith his own hand, captured the first
British flag laRen during the last war; since
which time he has had every post of honor
in his State, and thn.. n v....
. great
3 ' '"' '
ne Magnetic J ttlerraph. The ar-
rangements for the establishment of a line
nisA iv.i
7 '"""""B ""-g'apns between
,,w,,eiP", anu ww York are nearly com
?lele"' 11 18 supposed thai the line between
me iwo cities mav be n nnPF.il,.,, in .l,n.
. .
hree months.