—■■ smoKSITH. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Bloomshorg, Thursday. April 10, 1851. . A VAI-DEVU.IT. CONCERT is advertised lobe [ Xfiven this, (Thursday) evening at Mr. Brad- j y ley's School room by Mr. and Mrs. Chipp. j The entertainment is to consist of a selection { from the well knowu comedy of the "Honey ; Moon;" Interring between Tag and Miss! Pickle, a Selection from the vaudeville of! the Weathercock, and songs by Mrs. Chipp. ! Admittance cents. Spring. The season of joy and gladness is here, | and the dull dirty eardt puts on a clean, gay garniture of smiles and sunshine, and laughs j outright witli merriment. A thousand un- j seen fairies dress end deck her in the richest robe, and a thousand sweet toned songsters hold high festival to the happiest season's advent. A good k'ud spirit in the balmy | breeze, as it plays with our lochs, whispers j to us to smooth the wrinkles of the brooding j brow, and be a guest at tbe feast of song and i beauty. Aye. the light heart is full to o'er- ' flowing wi.ii the gush of thankfullucss and j joy- I But tun lite picture, dear reader, and j think for a moment of one to whose sorrow- j ing, sad mind the world's vision of beauty j is a sealed book, blotted and blackened with hideous deformities—to whose unstrung ear j the melody of mellow-throated songsters is j madness and mockery, and to whose un- j hinged mind the merriment and mirth of j spring can never come. Host ever seen the i mind whose life ne'er knew of spring, save j as in a fitful, feverish dream ? Hast ever j known tho poor child of sorrow whose soul j could never taste the gush of earth's gayety . and gladness, when all nature was vocal j with joy, and all living things jubilant with the vernal festival? Then drop a tear on the fairest flower of spring, and let us dance on. North Branch Canal- Tho proposition made in tho legislature on the 6lh inst., to appropriate $251,000 to the completion of the North Branch Canal pass ed by a note of 61 ayes to 34 nays. The Harriet) urg correspondent of the North American says this is not as it should bo, and thinks it is spending the state's money too fas!. He forgets how prodigal of promises Gov. Johnson was just before his election, when be would have had us believe that no one so much as himself cared to see the North Brar.ch Canal completed. But just now it seems he has found many friends whom lie thinks more deserving of the pub lic fund, llian the people of'the North. EF Our pleasure at listening to the address of William 11. Shoemaker induced us to re quest a copy of il for publication, and he nas furnished ns that, which will be found in another column of this paper. It ceriainly doss credit to him, and we arc sure, will be read with interest by bis young friends. or A bill is now before the legislature, , re districting the Judicial divisions of this State. It is the bill ot Mr. Packer in another stiape from that which it exhibited at the opening of the session. It now joins Col umbia, Luzerne and Montour, for one Ju - dicia! District, and if it should pass in this shape, the probabilities are that we should have Judge Conynghara ot Luzerne, to pre tide in the District. THE NORTH AMERICAN MISCEM.ANY is a new weekly reprint of tho memorable arti cles of current literature trora the best pub lications of >).'}• 66untry a".d Eu'ropd. P/"" 1 ' nnrobet contains 48 pages of mailer, select-j eft with the best judgment and tasle, and the work is "printed in most commendable style, i It appears simultaneously in Boston, New j York and Philadelphia. Terms S3 a year, j or 6J ecu It a copy. THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW fur April is a j work full of interest and usefulness; and the : steady reader of this valuablo periodical can not resist becoming a sound and truo Demo crat. The current number contains good articles on the following topics Thirty-firtj Congress; Uncle Sam anil his b hoys; Car not; Tho land of tbe Cherokee ; Admirals; j Proposal to establish one uniform system ot [ weights, measures and coins, by l'oter A. Brown ; The fugitive slave law ; Biographi cal sketch and portrait of lion. Geo. W. j Wright; Financial and commorcisl review ; Eulogy oil Col. Richard M Johnson. Terms $3 a year. >4l.v * One of 'hi.''- Robatk the Astrologer of Philadelphia lias become one of the chaps we read t., r —•'* 'ho police reports. The ledger of last Tuesday j has the following paragMpli about him: • POLICE MATTERS.—Alderman Ogle yestor- I day held C. W. Roback in SJOOO bail, to answer a charge of swindling in obtaining money from James Washington, a colored resident of Camden, for the cure of his wife by conjuration. Ho was arrested when in full regalia, and he was conducted through th sirpets, having on his bead a fancilul looking cap, decorated with a crescent and s'.ars. The colored fan paid SlO, and was to give a tike amount when his wi f e was cured of her disease. W topped" ahd " Standing Collars" are the names of two parties in existence at | Manch Chunk. The standing collar party at a recent election for borough officers, tri umphed. The Gapfrtte, in an appeal to the anti-standing collar party, urges a peaceful submission to the will of tho majority. %3T Friend Getz, of the Reading Gazette> has adopted a new plan to make hi* delin quent patrons settle their accounts. Instead of publishing a " black list," he advertieee for sate all acoounts that are over two years Standi^ Speech ef Mr. Buckalew on the Mon tour bill. Correspondence of the Pennsylvania. HARRISBCRO, April Ist, 1&51. The bill for the re annexation of the coun ty of Montour to the county of Columbia, came up in order this morning and the ques tion being on its final passage, Mr. Bucka lew said to the Senate that the bill was pure ly and entirely a bill of local character, and that there was no state or publio interest whatever involved in it. That it was neither ! a measure to introduce a new slate of things ji that portion of the Stato interested, but I merely to restore the old; that the bill was !in its nature emphatically a consolidation I bill, and nothing more; that the county of 1 Montour was a county only a few weeks | old, that when the bill before the Senate was ; introduced into the other branch of the Le | gislature this county had been organized on j ly nine weeks, and that now only a few weeks later, it was certain that no great j amount of business had been done that would be disturbed by the passage of the bill. He thought that in tho case of an old county where tho business properly belong ing to county authorities had accumulated, I when the long established habits of the peo ple had been accustomed to desire their pub j lie business to be transacted, it might appear i hard, unreasonable, and perhaps unjust to | take the action proposed in litis bill, but that no disturbance ol business transactions nor any injustice to anybody could result from j annexation in this case. He said that the | people of Montour and Columbia had sent j members to the Legislature for the purpose of having the law of last session repealed, and the County of Columbia restored to her I original position and boundary. He thought, I inasmuch as the large majority of the peo- j pie in the district concerned were plainly and i decidedly in favor of this measure, and had j sent their representatives here expressly to j have it effected, without any parly distinc tions or consideiations, and as it was a local I measure which concerned them alone, that their desires and their interests ought to be heeded and regarded. He asked the Sena tors from the other portions of the State, if they would overrule and override them in their wishes, which were so plainly and pointedly expressed, and made known in their elections and public meetings, which were impelled by a spirit of indignation, immediately after tho bill erecting Montour; County, sundering and sadly mutilating tbe j County of Columbia!—tnat no county ever had been erected in Pennsylvania, except in which tho people of the coun ties concerned had not concurred or acqui esced. Mr. Buckalew then exhibited maps, and showed the objectionable shape of the county, and referred to the mutilated state of, several townships which had been left in j fragments by the new county line, and | which could not be annexed to any other . townships adjoining, nor were they large j enough to form townships by themselves, j bavin " only forty or fifty voters in them. He said that Columbia, in its original shape, was one of the smait .counties of the Common, wealth, located in the Sid."'® regions of the North, ami having wlthtn It no nto-.itio. or circumstances calling for any disntsmber ment or division ; that the people then had j lived on terms of friendship and fraternal j relations up to the time when his ptedeces- j sor wa9 elected to the Senate in 1847 ; that j at that time no individual could have been j elected without the most unqualified proles- ; tations against any division of that county j and here Mr. Buckalew read to the Senate | the letters of Valentine Best, declaring him- 1 self opposed to any such division, and also ; a letter to tlie editor of llie , desi ring him to republish this letter which was j addressed to the convention which nomina- < ted Mr. Best for Senator, and to the senti ments of which he pledged himself in all his official conduct should he be elected • mat foi iiie purpO 60 ° f preserving his politi cal standing, by falling upon a local n-C.." 1 " , in the county, he had basely violated all his ] pledges, and through this misplaced confi- j dence of the people, his district had been*! made to endure all this outrage, dismember men! and division ; and now would Senators role against these deceived and betrayed people—against the wishes of their repre sentatives, merely to leave untouched work of perfidy and wrong 1 Mr. Buckalew i said he did not blame the Senators who had j last year voted for this new county, ho did : not desire to impugn the motives of such Senators, but was willing to allow that in going according to the desires and wishes urged upon them by the Senator from Col ' umbia at that time, they were doing right, but he asked thenr. now in the name of his ! constituents to reverse the action of the Le gislature of last year by voting right,—vo ting for the merits of the bill, as ho placed • the bill upon high ground, upon i'.s merits j alone he desired it to pass. | He mentionod the fact that the majority of j the people in the new county limits were in ; favor of the new county, including the peo i pie of Danville, who were actuated by a 1 town interest, or an interest of speculation, I wi'.'ich always existed in new county cases, but thk't i>t 'ire agricultural parts of this coun ty itself, ti'.re majority of the people were op posed to any thvision of the old county of Columbia in which they had lived so long and so well—that altogether Montour had within her borders together with her majori ty, a minority whoso rights and whose wish es ought to bo respected. But talking of ] Columbia and Montour, ho would otdy call I it Columbia. The party interested ihert' was - a powerful majority against any division i of her Territory. And what if a majority within the new county limits, was in favor of such division. Any new county now asking to be erected within the common wealth, could draw an uncomely and un shapely lino around a certain portion of a county or of different counties, whioh would have a majority in favor of a new county ( but no good legislator would think of making this an argument or a justification foraooun ty to be orected—that such a legislator would aak, have you causa for what you ask—not do you want it. But in this oounty Montour, no cause for complaint existed—*.ke people there by being placed back with the people of Columbia, would then have open courts, a speedy administration of justice, and eve ry advantage which a county administration of government can possibly aflord. Mr. Buckalew then said that the passage of the bill under consideration, would be an act of pure straight forward legislation—an act of justice lo the people interested, and a proper rebuke to any man who would ever dr.re lo betray the trust, and abuse the power confi ded to his hands, ot break and disregard the solemn promises he has made. That the bill was right, and if passed into a law, would bo followed by the most beneficial results. He then went into an argument to show that there was 110 constitutional diffi culty in the way of the bill, and did show beyond a doubt, that such was the case. I This speech of Mt. Buckalew is eulogised I by all who heard it as a powerful effort, and a triumphant vindication of the measure up jon which it was delivered. Mr. Buckalew, iif he shall live, and keep his health, and I there is no one who knows him, who will j not pray that he may, is destined to become | one of the best public speakers in I'enr.syl • ! vania. He has a degree of intellect, an i earnestness of manner, and a sweetness of voice which cannot fail to lift him far above the most of mankind in any country —even in America in this age of the world Mr. Frailey commenced an argument in enswer to Mr. Buckalew, and spoke to the hour of adjournment. We shall probably | have another on Montour to-morrow, provi ded we have a full Senate. HARKISBURQ, April 3. The bill fur tho re annexation of Montour to Columbia eatne up in order this morning, and Mr. Frailey being entitled to the floGr, continued his speech in answer to Mr. Buck alew. He said the kill enacting this county was signed by the Governor on the third day of March, 1850, and that a proposition to repeal the same was moved in the Senate on the thirteenth of the same month, but was negatived by thiee votes more than, the ma jority which passed the bill in the Senate. He would ask them would it be judicious, or j just for a subsequent Senate to act so directly in opposition lo the expressed will of those who passed the bill and know all about the circumstances attending the passage ; espe cially when the principle reason given for the passage of the present bill, was the per fidy and corruption in which the county of Montour was erected 1 Mr. Frailey then examined the constitutional*bearing ol the question, and concluded that the Legislature could not blot a county from the face of the Commonwealth, after it had been once fair ly erected. That it was a proposition to do directly, to wit: to hurl from the bench associate judges, properly appointed by the Governor, and confirmed by the present Sen ate. He said it would not do to instance a township that had been stricken out—that the same objections did not exist in such acaso as were palpable in the present—thet no similari ty existed betwesn obliterating a township and a county ; the officers were not the same nor had they the samo constitutional charac ter. Mr. F, then went into a minute history of the divisions of ttie psopU m itio nKi | county of Columbia, and of the rival politi. cal factions existing there, and said that the proposition for this repeal arose from these family quarrels and political divisions—that, eSbCußg 'l'® repeal wouIJ bring back to the Legislature, all the difficulties ?nd complaints of this section which had so long been toil ing in our Legislative Halls. He then made ay apology for Valentine Best, and said he did nothing that the wishes of his constitu ents did not require him to do. tW The Schuylkill Mining Boatd of Trade in their annual report for the year 1833, say that so early as 1890, coal was known to 1 abound in this county. According tp the statement of Abraham Pott it was not known j till 1807. Scull's map of the Province of | Pennsylvania, published in 1770, has "coal mark norlu Cf ,lic Tuscarora mountain. It is said that about i! 1? y? ar 1800, a Mr. 1 Wm. Morris, who owned a large tract of land in the neighborhood of Port Carbon, procured a quantity of coal, and took it to Philadelphia, but he was unable, with all his exertions, to bring it into notice; and abandoned ail his plans, returned, and sold his lands lo Mr Pott. About the year 1812, Messrs. Mellon and Bishop, at the earnest solicitation of Col. Shoemaker, we/e induced to make a trial of it in their rolling m'.ll in Delaware county, and finding it to answer fully the character given it by Col. Shoema ker, noticed its usefulness in tho Philadel • pltia papers ; and from that period, says the report quoted above, we may date the tri umph of reason, aided by perseverance over prejudice.— Pottsville Register. Authority of Law- Certain popular errors, touching lite funda mental principles of society, have been ! brought into prevalence by superficial and inconsiderate enthusiasts, which need lo be { rectified. The authority of law in a Republic I does not rest udon the inherent correctness or I justice of a particular enactment, but upon i the social compact. The whole people are | under an actual agreement, a binding con -1 tract, to obey and uphold such laws as may 1 lie enacted by their agents, within tho limits ! of a Constitution established by the whole people. Scarcely a law passes without op position, based tnoro or less upon principle; but when passed, and whilo on the statute book, it binds all. A departure from this j principle involves the utter overthrow of all j the securities and privileges of society. PRESS.— Be either delicately pale or rich j ly dark ; beware of blue, red, and yellow— ; the favorites of savages, unleis your red bo i deepened with black, or contrasted with I green ; your blue aniiaateil with orange; and your yellow illuminated with purple. Let the brilliant eoilors be small, like the lights io a picture; and the main body of toe dress of a mixed color, or pure while, which is all colors. Beware <ff eolipsing yourslf, by making your dress so beautiful thrat you will not be seen. X3T Court begins on r ext Monday a week. Our Ctnnlry—Her Influence and Destiny. An Address delivered by WILLIAM H. SHOEMA KER, in the Courtflouie at Bloomsbure, at the public examination of Mr. Bradley's • scholars, on Friday evening, March 21 tth, 1851. All is calm, and serenity reigns throughout the whole of nature. But yonder, far in the distant heavens, appears a dark cloud as a speck on the great blue arch above. It is not noticed for any strange or striking peculiarity, but merely as a common cloud that tbo eye would meet ill its every day gluncings to ward heaven. No emotion—no visible ef fect is created by the sight; yet, however insignificant and trite it appears to be, there is an awlul majesty of power and sublimity lurking within that cloud-like form, which will soon burst upon the earth, with a hun dred fold the force of a tempest at sea, or a hurricane on land. It increases in size as if it would fain shut out the light of heaven and darken the earth. The sky has assumed a most solemn aspect, and the winds are making a melancholy moaning as if they were singing a retptiera for the dead and dying. All objects begin to clothe them, selves in garbs of gloom and dismay, at | these prognostications of evil The sub j limity of the approaching scene is indescri. bable, and is still becoming more so as the ihreatenings come nearer and grow more fearful. The whole civilized world is affec ted by the coming storm. Aye I it now breaks over the earth with the most terrific violence. Hint there yet remains one bright spot, ovaa which no dark cloud haVe ap peared, ana on which the orb of day, stiir shines with the same effulgence and benign influence as befote. That bright siot is happy, proud America, towards which the innumerable hosts who seek refuge from the fury of the storm, bend their way. It as a star guiding tho sea tost mariner to a place of safety. But let us continue the description of the storm and see its effects on all parts of the world, while this one seems as if ex ulting in its good fortune and bidding de. fiance to the storm. The winds howl io sounds of terror and despair, spreading destruction with their every violent gale. The sea is teemirg with tempestuous wnves that rise higher than the tops of the highest mountains leaving be tween them deep yawning caverns of hor ror. It seems as if the sea had refused to give up her dead, and was warring with the other elements lor their retention. The thunders roar in louder sounds than ever be fore greeted the ears of mortal man, at the first bursts shaking the earth to itR centre, and as they again cease leaving it in a state ot vibration like a feather suspended in the wind. The forked lightnings, in all their characteristic fury, flash through the dark ; portentous, cloudy mass above, until they reach the earth in their downward course, shattering trees that have defied the storms of centuries, and hurling rocks ffom their dizzy heights on mountains, down steep precipices into the valleys below. At other ttmes, one sheet of vivid lightening envel opes the earth with a flood of light far ex celling the brightest day. The rulers of every land- especially those who have ruled with the iron roil of despotism, tremble in every nerve at the violent tumult of the elements and think it a merited visitation of Divine Providence. The storm has not aba ted, but continues 'lo rage with increased violence. But we will not beggar language in imperfectly describing the storm. Let us drop the allegory, and apply it to our theme. In that " small cloud" first noticed before the " storm," will be recognized onr country in its embryo. And as the 'cloud' increased in size so our country increased and grew into importance among the nations of the earth. Aye! this glorious land of liberty which we now inhabit was once covered by a dense wilderness and .populated by a race of savages ; bnt colonized by a few Euro peans, who sought religious liberty, as well as lo escape from the political bondages of tyranica! governments, she made the first step lowards becoming what ehe is. And wneu !!>® col oo '® 3 be"an to flourish, and the > forests to disappear before the axe of civili zation, just so soon Great Britain asserted her right to tax America. This, with other unjust oppressions and outrages, so aggrava ted the people that they'declaicd themselves independent of mother country. She, not liking this proof of obedience and affection, sent an army to quell the rebellious spirit of the Americans, who nobly and justly resist ed this new outrage. Hordes of British hirolings now crowded our shores; bit*, there were brave hearts among our forefathers who wero determined to be free, or not be at all. Truly 'tis said that " these were times that tried men's souls." But after a seven years' war Great Britain became satisfied of the truth of Patrick Henry's remark—" That three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty are invincible by any force, and acknowledged the independence of America. Peace established and harmony restored, our country again began to prosper under the auspices of a government whose constitution has no equal for soundness and simplicity. It is not yet a century since her name has been numbered among the nations of the earth. Ar.d now she embraces a vast extent of territory, enriched with inexhausti ble mineral wealth. She can no longer be called "tho feeble thirteen." On the oast and west her bouuderies are the Atlantic and Pacific while Canada on the north is knocking tor admittance into our great Union of States, and Moxico on the south will soon follow her example. California has already been admitted with her inex haustible mines of gold. And in no time heretofore has the world known such institu tions as ours. In short, all the elements that constitute true greatness in a nation, are combined into one harmonious whole, form ing our glorious republio. Her commerce rivals that of any of the most prosperous na tions. The sails of her vessels whiten every sea, while the smoko of her swift winged steamers in all parts of the world, announce to mankind that all things must prosper under 'he supervision of a republican government, jn which the poorest has as much power as the richest—in which tho advantages of birth and education, ot more properly, the influence of riches is not considered a sure passport to posts of honor and prefe/menl. TJie American shores are the asylum for the. and down-trodden of every clime. This is very plainly illustrated by the alle gory which represents numbers as Beeking a refuge here from the fury of the storm. Our countrymen go forth diffusing the-principles of liberty and saying unto other nations " do likewise." The principles of our govern ment are gradually spreading and taking root like the branches of the bannyan tree, thus exerting the holy influence of liberty over oppressed millions. Hero again we see the application of the allegory which repre sents the influence of our government, or the effects of her principles on monarchy. Our country has been beset with few evils. From the. day of her birth up to the present, she has enjoyed one continual course of the most unexampled prosperity. Our Eagle, the emblem of liberty, flas faithfully watch ed over the great and growing interests of our country, giving the alarm whenever there was an.y encroachment mado upon the rights of the people. But with all ottr mul tiplicity of words we have failed to describe the greatness and glory of our republic with half the force that Lord Kussel did when lie remarked in one of his celebrated speeches during our war with Mexico, and the (amine ' in lrelauu. 'The Ami r'ean nation is the most powerful nation in existence. She is fight ing one nation with unprecedented ruccess and at the same time feeding another.'— Who has not felt the truth of this 1 And what may not the most stiiiguino expect for her in the future I But pethaps you begin to ask " why all this noise about the storm," in our com mencement; we have heard 110 applications sufficient lo warrent ro extravagant ait illus tration of our subject V We have answered that the description of the storm and its destructive eflects was given in order to illustrate the influence of our country upon other nations. And fur ther we now answer that they were given as a basis for our conjectures of tier future in fluence and greatness. Before America was acknowledged to be a nation, nil was cairn and sereno in the system of nations, the same as in the ele ments before the storm. But so soon as she had acquired for herself a name, she began to exert a. powerful influence upon the desti nies or nations, like the cloud upon the ele ments. Thus we can trace up the similarity of the two, until tho storm bursts forth, which is a good illustration ol the efforts that are being made in alt countries to ob tain the common rights of mankind. These efforts are made in consequence of the not ble example of self government which America presents to the world. This is her direct influence. It incites men of all climes to action in the great causo of emancipation. We are now at the period or epoch at which tyrants tremble with fear at tho sound of our name, ard at which monarchs anxiously feel for their' crowns for the name " America" J is synonymous with " Liberty and Death lo tyrants." Our country is last causing the j oppressed of Europe to do groat ami heroic actions by working out lor tliemselvea a j glorious future. Nolhwiihsianding the rapid ! progress ol" liberty, there are a few monarch ies extending their domain and flourishing prosperously, but this is only uniting many small kingdoms with their evils into one huge monster like "Russia the Great Bear of the north," lo be the more easily slain by sorr.e Hercules of Freedom. Though the causo of liberty has not been so successful j in all its efforts as we could wish, yet it has so intimida'ed Kings that tho condition of the oppressed has become ameliorated. The monarchies of the world hold their preroga tives by a frail tenure. Popular opinions and measures are adopted in defiance of King;; and aristooratic nobles. The sweets of lib- | erty and the pleasures of knowledge have I been tasted and tyrants may 110 longer trifle i with the sweat and blood of toiling millions, j Truly tlte storm is very illustrative of lite '■ effects of our country on monarchy. For how couiii we better describe or illusiraid the (ottering of thrones—the falling of em-1 ptres—the violent political commotions that j agitated every country—the progressive spirit of liberty that pervades ail classes and all societies, in short, tlte entire subjugation of tyranny than by it. To be free is the ul timate destiny of man, but to our country may be attributed the many efforts made to wards attaining that end. It is our country ; that is forcing it on with such gigantic strides, j With all these evidences of our greatness 1 and commanding influence, what can we not expect for America herself and her ltoly influence 1 For 'the storm' has not abated, but is raging with a continually increasing and indescribable violence. Scarcely can our imagination, however well cultivated, picture our country's future. The only reasonable conjecture we can make concerning the destiny of her influence is that it will terminate only when all moti archial governments shall have disappeared from the face of tho earth, and when great and prosperous republics shall have taken their stead. The future of Our Country is bright before us. Her territory will continoo to increase, so that our Eagle may have a vast extent of country over which he can flap his fast growing wings free and uncon trolled. America must inevitably reach the high est pinnacle ot everything that is great and noble, for brighter and brighter grows every path of her future progress. And whon re publics shall have become the only govern ments, they will ail unite in thanking our country—the cause of all their happiness and freedom,'with the most sincere gratitude that ever warmed the hearts of any people or nation, for the blessings conferred on them ; and also in praying tu God for his especial cere over us as well as over them selves. Does not the heart of every Ameri can light up with an undeflnablo joy, at the bright prospect before us, and our country 1 And in conclusion, to show that we have not overrated tho solidity of our government, or exaggerated her greatness, we cite a re mark from the London limss, itself "the Jupiter Tonans of the press of Christendom." " The two nations most likely to the rtorms of revolution, the American Union is one and England the other." When an , Englishman admits that America is equal to England in any particular it is time for us to feel that we are actually deserving respect for such a sentiment must be extorted not freely given. FROM HARRISBURG. Correspondence of the Pcnntylvtmian. Harrisburg, April 4, 1851. The bill providing for the election of Jnd ges of (he various Courts in this Common wealth, caroo up in the Senate to day, and pending att amendment to the bill providing that persons testifying relative to frauds and fraudulent voting'for judges or members of Congress, should not be held thereby to criminate themselves, one of the most singu lar discussions arose that has ever been heard in the Senate of Pennsylvania. This amendment was attached to the bill some days ago ill committee of the whole, and when the bill came up to day Mr. Buckalew led off in support of it, and Mr. Crabb fol lowed against the same, alleging that the j amendment had been offered by the Senator | from Columbia, and was intended for a par ticular case, to wit. the case of Messrs. Ful- ! ler and Wright in the Luzerne and Colum j bia district in which frauds had been allodg ; ed to have been committed by persons in j the borough of Danville. This gave- the i alarm, and the universal whig party on the; floor were much excited against the amend- I ment—declared they were opposed to it, and then inquired what it was. . j Gen. Packer obtained the floor and ad- i dressed the Senate in an eloquent and inter esting argument, to show the great propriety 1 and necessity for this feature in the law. Ho said that it was impossible for any tribunal, i as the law of Pennsylvania now stands, to 1 compel unwilling witnesses to testify in a caso of alloged fraud in an election for a member of Congress; that such witness j would fall back upon the common law right ' that no one was obliged to testify to what . would involve them in guilt, and that tho j amendment ought to pass, giving an injured | party the opportunity of redress. lie allu ded to the fact that all contested election ca | ses stood upon this ground, he could see no reason why elections of members of Con- I gress should be p'aced upon any other. ! This argument must have convinced the minds of every whig who heard it, of the ! justice and the importa-ice of tho amend ment; but when the vote was called, it was seen that justice, propriety, necessity, consci j enc}, and all had yielded to parly sway, and | the amendment was lost. If fraud had | been committed, as foul and palpable as it was alarming and dangerous to the country, | it was confirmed and rewarded by the wiiigs of the Senate. Married, at Cambridge, Mass , 2d inst, Mr. I S. W. Dabney, of Fayal, Azores, to Miss j Harriet VV. (daughter of the late Professor) ; Webster, of C. We have heard it stated, on the authority j of a neighbor, that, on the conviction of lior | father, this young lady, who had for some j time been betrothed to Mr. P., tho brother j of her sister's husband, absolved Ititn from his engagomcnl, which, however, with a ■ manliness that did Ititn honor, he would not j accept.' We learn that they, with Mrs. Webster, j are about making a visit to her birth plat e, | Fayal, whore her eldest daughter resides.— I New York Express. A ''California widow'' publishes the fol- 1 lowing in a San Francisco paper. Julia ap pears to ba qui'e particular in filling her va- ! cancy: HUSBAND WANTED. —Whereas my hits band has lately lelt my bed and boattl witb- j out provocation on iny part. 1 hereby advor- j tiso for a suitable person to till tiie vacancy. The gentleman applying must have blue ; eyes, light colored moustache (my husband | had black.) an attractive goatee, and a gen- ; teel figure. He must not bo over tweniy fivo years ol age, well educated, of ttnex.- ceptionable morals, and agreeable address. ! It is a requisite that his personal incumbran- | ces should be limited, and Itis prospective ; fortune fluttering. No gamblers need apply. Address JULIA, At the desk of this office, j NICXING THEM. —Two of the Philadelphia i b'hoys were last week convicted before Judge Parsons of receiving stolen goods j with a guilty knowledge The first chap j was sentenced three years to ttie Eastern j Penitentiary ; and the other who had appear ed as a witness against the first, was sent to the County Prison for two years and nine : months. Mu. RANTOUL —At tho meeting held at Lynn, Mass., on Thursday, Mr. liautuul, af ter the speech against the fugitive slave law, lobe found in another column, was unani mously nominated as the candidate for Con gress of the Democratic party in Essex. FARE REDUCED.—A passenger can now start at Blooinsburg Danville or Northumber land any morning and reach Philadelphia on the evening of the same day, for the low fare of Jour dollars and jifty cents. Jeff says that women arc called hie "softer sex," because thoy arc so easily humbugged. Out of one hundred girls, ho says, ninety five would prefer ostentatien to happiness— a dandy husband to a mechanic. Few men make better use of their eyes than a coxcomb. While his opeta glass gives him an insight into other people, his looking-glass helps him to some knowledge of himself. i XV Girls who rise soon and walk apace, Steal roses from Aurora's face ; But when they yawn in bed till ten, Aurora steals them back again. Rather than marry a slattern, buy a shil ling's worth of opiutn, and open a bachelor's paradise—an Eden of your own. FOR SALE.—A sorrel overcoat 4 years old, | and subject to debenture. Apply to tho au- j thor of the Piscataqua Ointment. XV Deaf is deaf, and hear* no denial j PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. TUESDAY, April 1. SENATE —The bill to re-annex the county of Montour to the county of Columbia, cam* up in order on second reading, and was sup ported at great length by Mr. Buckalew. Mr. Frailey followed in an argument against it, which was not concluded when the hour of otto arrived and the bill was laid aside. Wednesday, April 2. SENATE. —The bill to re-annex the county of Montour to the county ol Columbia came up in order, and Mr. Frailey having again obtained the floor, resumed and concluded his argument in opposition to its passage. Mr. Buckalew made a brief reply, and the question recurring, shall the first section of the bill pass 1 The yeas and nays were taken, and were as follows : Yeas—Messrs. Bailey, Buckalew, Crabb, Fernon, Frick, Fulton, Guernsey, Hogs, Jones, M'Caslin, Muhlenberg, Sanderson, Savery and Shinier.—l 4. | Nays—Messrs. Carothcrs, Carson, Cun | nifigham, Forsyth, Frailey, Haslett, Ives, Komgmacher, Lawrence, M'Murtrie, Ma i lone, Myers, Packer, Robertson, Walker and : Matthias, Speaker —l 6. So the bill fell. Harrisburg, April 4. j SENATE. —Mr Buckalew submitted a reso 11 ilton requesting the House of Rcpresenta fives to return to the Senate the bill re annex ing the county ol Montour tothecounty of Col umbia. The resolution, having been read, was laid on the table for the present. Harrisburg, April 5. SENATE.— The resolution requesting the House to return to the Senate the bill re an ' ttcxing the County of Montour to the Coun ty of Columbia, was then taken up, but its passage being decided by the Speaker a* un- I necessary, in order to allow amo ion to re -1 consider, it was passed by Informally. | The bill to provide for the elecion of the Judges of the several Courts of this Com. 1 monwcallli, was then taken up on its final j pas-age, when a motion was made to go in to committee of the whole, for the purpose j of amendment, by adding at the end of the bill, the bill read in place sotno time since j by Mr. Packer, to organize the several Judt | cial Districts of the S ale. ; Tho motion gavo rise to considerable dis ! cusHon, and was then rejected ; yeas it—nays 21. The bill then passed finally. The supplement to the at revising the militia system of the common wealth, came up in ordet, and after discussion and amend, ment.was agreed to, and ordered to be en grossed. HOUSE.— The general app opriat oi bill : was again taken up. The section requiring the Canal Commissioners to locale and put under contract so much of the railroad on I the eastern or wostern slope of the Allegheny j Mountains, lor the purpose of avoiding file present inclined planes, as they may deem expedient, was agreed to—yeas 56, navs 26. The section appropriates £250,000 to the Work, and provides that the nt tximuru grade ol the roads to be constructed sit lit* not exceed 75 feel to the mWo The sec',ion authorizing tho negotiation by the S'.ato of a loan ol SdoO OO'J to most this expenditure, the certificates of said loan to be exempt from taxation, and to bear att interest of five per cent, not agreed to—yeas 43, nays 48. Harrisburg, April 7. StvATr..—The bill granting pensions and annuities to soldiers and widows of soldiers, of the revolutionary and Indian wars, was taken up and passed. Mr Brooke submitted a resolution, provi ding for a night session every night through the week, which was adopted. Mr. Myers moved that tho orders of the day be suspended, for the purpose of pro ceeding to the consideration of the bill au thorizing the Banks of tho Commonwualth to icue tiolov ol the denomination of one, two and three dollars, which was not agreed to. The bill revising the Militia system of this Commonwealth came up in order and wa* pa saJ—yeas 16, nays 18. The bill to incorporate the Allenlovn Sa vings Institution passed final reading. Yeas 12, nays 10. The bill to increase the capital stock of the Southward Bank from two hundred an 1 fifty thousand to lour hundred thousand dol lars was passed. Yeas 17, nays 14. Yeas—Messrs. Brooke, Carothcrs, Carson, Crabb, Cunningham, Frailey, Frick, Has lett, Konigniacher, Lawrence, M'Murtrie, Myers, Kobeitsoii, Savory, Shinier, Walk or, Matthias, Speaker. Nays—Messrs. Bayley, Ilockalow, Fer non, Forsyth, Fulton, Guernsey, lloge, Ha gue, Ives, Jones, M'Caslin, Muhlenberg, Packer, Sanderson HOUSE. —Mr. A E. Brown rffjo to a al explanation, denying (be statement in the Pennsylvania , that he was secrotly opposing and cpenly favoring the passage of the bill for the recharler of the Easton Bank. Harrisburg, April 8, 1851. STNATE. —Messrs. Forsyth and Walker moved the reconsideration of the vote upon the reanttexing A on ton r to Columbia oouri ty. Agreed to, and the bill was postponed until this afternoon. XV It is intimated tbat Daniel Webster will retire from President Fillmore's cabinet, FAME —To bo abused by the newspapers and have mud-scows named after yon. DIED. On last Monday, in Bloom township, Mr. MAIK.ON HAMLIN, aged about 45 years. On last Wednesday, in Bloom township, Mrs. HAMLIN, widow of the late Thomas Hamlin, aged about 40 years. In Williamsport, on the 30th ult, SARAH, widow of the late John Bowman, of Berwick, Columbia county, aged 65 yeers. •In Salem, on Tuesday the 25th of March last, CHARLES, infant son of William Harris, aged 5 months. At the same place on YVednasday the 26th ult., MATHIAS, sou of William Harris, aged 2 years and 6 mouths.
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