Tsui Wiemouoa (N. t) Blicursi*Cess..—The trial of Emden Darrdar; indicted for the murder of SteplieUand David Lester, at Westerloo, on the 28th Of -September lut, which has been ping on ler two weeks past at Albany, wu concluded on Tuesday, by the jury rendering a verdict of guilty. The evidence wasaliopther circumctae• tialoo far as the pill of the prisoner wu ear. caned. The circumstances of the me were heledy as killowm The_ children 'murdered dere two brother., aged eight and ten years respectively, residing with their uncle,David Leater,-atepfather of the accused. Oa t he day specified, when there was no one on the farm but the two boys the prison. • or, and hia mother, the boys were both miss Mg.— This was on Saturday. Starch was made Mr them on Solidity, and the days following, until Wisdoee. day, when the body of Stephen was Coned abder a ledge of reeks, with a heavy:stone !yin cross. wise on his breast. The skull war fractured, the breast was crushed, the legs were bent, and six of the ribs broken. On the succeeding day the body of David was toned hanging one tree to the vi. chilly of the ledge. Stephen's wounds had dently been indicted with a swingle belonging to • Mr. Lester. which wee (bond secreted near the child, and David was suspended from the tree by • rope, which was also Identified by Mr. Lester u his property. "The prisoner was the last seen with these bogy, and white the search was gong on for their bodies, ho endeavored to divert the; attebtion of those engaged in it from the preciee spot of concealment, by the most cons tmdictory stories. The idea of cell' aggrandizement appears to bear been the impelling motive to the mime, yet the Interest of the prteoner, If we understand it, was indeed remote in the removal of the poor children. They were entitled to acme property, but it could only revert to him through to being W 3 willed by his stepfather, or by inheriting it from - his mother, in case' that it were bequeathed to her. Amocg the painful auendints of the case __ were the recta the the prisoner had only been married two weeks, and that the most important witches against him wee his own mother. Ile was sentenced lo be executed on the 3111 . January, and when arraigned for sentence dented that he was guilty of the crime charged upon him. The witneues, he said, had perverted his 'lvignage, icr which he hoped God would forgive them. Bourn LAII Da —We have been requested by the Commissioner of Pension* to publish the fol. lowior 'ln answer to various inquis'es relative to the Busty Luna Act of September 25tb,1630,1 have so inform you: • 1. That where the service has been rendered by a subs:Utile, he is the person entitled to the benefit of the law, and not hiresnployer: 2 That the . widowof a soldier, who has roe. stored the service required by law, is entitled to bounty land, provided she was n widow at the passage of the law, although the may have been manned several times, or although her marriage to the officer oksoldier may have taken place at ter he belt the service; but if not a widow when thelaw passed, the benefit of the act enures to tke minor children of the deceased soldier. 3. That no person who has received or is eon. sled to bounty land under a prior law, is entitled to the benefit of the ant of the 28th September, 11330. 4. That no soldier is entitled to more than one warrant under this act, although he may have nerved several terms; but, where a soldier has • served severed terms, ha will receive a warrant be the greatest quantity of land to which the nee. nal terms consoltdated will entitle him. 5. In all cases where any portion of the marine corps, in the)teveral wars was referred to in the act of 28th September, IESO, were embodied with the army in the field, and performed service as a. por• lion orthe line of the army, the marines who so served, if they served the time required by law, and were honorably discharged, are entitled to land. Nil seaman or any other person belonging to the navy proper is entitled to land. And notelet:met or artificer is entitled to Inn& ?creel:m.lom were engaged in the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia, in 1936, or in removing Indians at any time are. not entitled to land. Tun Stutter or Sccons.—What is it! In this country, among people who are equally protected and encouraged, it lies in the steady pursuit of in telligetme, industry, temperance a. frugality. So far as outward comfort and competence consti• into wealth, there is but a fraction of eceiety who may not tomes, it, if each will hit torn Mr hand and brain to the vocation re , we'ch hie io atinet and capacity most fit him. If the great for times which ao dazde the migudging pan, be analyzed, they will be found, in nearly ninety nine of the hundred cases ' to have sprang and matured from calm, patient, and simple toll—ma which had au endurance and faith behind, and an object and - hope beforelL So, too, with talc =sin whatever man seeks to accomplish. A clown may stumble upon a splendid dincoirery in artier science, but a fixed general law provide that high sebievement shall require profound and ceasolcie labor. The arise at screen, except in isolated Cate!, It the devotion of one's life. He is a fool who trusts to any dream for ponession or adraeccrucut, unless h' connects with it the pru dent extreme of hie two energy and judgment— The little spring in the mountain rock, becomes • brook, a torrent, a wide rolling river, and a part of the fathomless oxen, timely by my. hi .g deed : 2 7sta britv*Mewerd.—Nere Yerkr. "; s Expait ot lb. Webitterease n the title of a sleaze volume of 610 page', Ant pub. Rabecontaining • report of the entire proecediegr in the case of Professor Webster,. from the tithe of his erred to the period of Wax. amnion. It tem:width', therefore, embodies a cumber of fonts end documents not to be found together el :where. We extvact the statements mode by Pr. Webster just before his execution, to the sheriff and jailor: At an interview with the jailor, Mr. Andrews Professor Webster said: "Mr. Andrews., I consid er this whole thing perfect justice! The officers of the law are right! Every body is right, and I • tun wrong! And 1 feel that If the yielding op of my life to the irjurcd law will atone., even in part for the crime that I have-committed, that it is a consolation." Ina cells - metier' with the sheriff, ho said the proceedings la my caw have been just ' tne Court ilschateed their duty! The lam o®• eers of the Cammonwealth did their duty, and no more! The verdict of the jury assyna! The eentenco of the Court was just! and it is just that I should die on the ecaffold, m accordance with that sentence !' Frani:man AND FATAL Aeon:mfr.—A sh7rt time since, Mr. James F. Welch. an overseer at the Atlantic Mills, while on a visit at Derry, N. H., wentout on a gunning excurrtnn. In the course of his rambling-, he found some walnuts near • stone wall. He garnered a few, and leaning hie fowling piece egainst the wall, commenced creek ing them auh • small atone. The concussion against the wall caused s stone to fall which, slidinghlang the barrel, turned the MUTIIT , towards Mr. Welch, mad striking the trigger, discharged the piece, and the whole cantents entered ' dlately under We right arm pit, and came out at tae ebou!der. The wound was dreadfolly severe, and It lingered in great agony fora Ruttish', when he died. Ho left a widow and two cnudren. • Ho wee it most faithful, worthy and true man.— ..". Lzwert,r, N. If., Sentinel • Mtss Liras SOninnEn Totta.—Tile move. Monte of Mlle Lind, after leaving Baltimore, will be as followc—A Concert in Washington, on the 16:h, and prebobly 18th. She will then proceed to Richmond, and - sing there on the 20M; thence to Charleston, S. C., and give concerts on the 26th and 29th. On the Ist of Jannaty, she will nil from Ctrlerton to the steadier Isabel for Havana, and remain there from the 9th of January to the Ist of February; thence to New Orleans, and re• main in that city from the 4th to the 16th of Feb• rutty. She will return on the WenCITI route, iting Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, &c., and start far the World', Fair In Jane. Sorb Is the present determination.—Boit. Bits. Sransrics orlYlation INSUEUCL—By report', made for the various collec . ion districts to the us& ted Sutra Stns.°, it appears that the number of known wrecks of Untied States weasels, in the 'Fear clic' June 30, 1848, was 565 ; crews of mess vcaacts,l9l6 ; pane ngers, 1969 ; lira bat, 477 ; vnl:te or the vessel", 62,021,495 ; of the carioca , 52,501,771; maki n g • total of 64 5 2 3 , 176. Amount ono-saes paid by underwriters on yrorria. 51.579,482 ; end on eargoes,l4l,22l, 827; total; 52,802,319. The largest number o. wreck.. at any one place wu on the Florida reef. —2O Ton Hneuntrina Envies or Tee A itate.—From a statement jest published by the Adjutant-Gene ral of me Army, we learn that the weeks number of recruits enlisted In the army daring the year coding on the 3031. September, was 3,695, of which number 2651 were for the general service," TB, for dragoons, 314, urine:l,4os, infirdtry, and 13 for the company ofaappers and miners. Ac mrding to tbe existing laws the number of enlists 'ed men of the line is 11525 The 'scuds allow abet of the 19,599 who ha' o offered thenuielves the current year at the recruiting station only 2, 566 were aecopmd by the recruiting officers' aa stile Milled and otherwise fit Or the service- A New em Summar:l. Puss Or itmecam The Travelier 'cabal that on Saturday, • broker in State street received what purported to is . telegraphic despatch from a person In New yak, ordering that a certain note about $5OO should be paid on presentation. The noto was presented and paid, but it ems afterwards dismayed that the whole affair, telegraphic derpatch and all, was a forgery througliont.—Borfon Tronallire. Ear-data or Ones Eminasi—The salaries of the amides engaged in the new Italian Opera Mere in Madrid, are on the following isolm—Al. MY, for three months, A:WO; Madame Frezzoli biotin mouths, £3,200; Cerilo and her busbuid, St. Leon, three mocha, £2,401:6 Herr Formes. leur months, £1,050; Sanitiovanni. six :months, 4340; 'Meant, tenor. ale menthe, £1,8065 Pardonft fence, Iwo months, £1,010; brand; tenor, was his fered £2,900 mod a benefit, for two months. - Malice Disaarra.—The steamship Palmetto arrived yesterday, reports Mat the U. 8, steamer -Anwar COI. - limit. from Brun Santiago, bound t e r ors pcm, was stranded during a gale blowing at the time, on the Matagorda peninsula on the bight a the 25th ult., and to a total ley:. The crew cod plasengers were sawed. A portion of the pirmerem anlved on tho Palmena—Pfrde Orleans J3ztgsin. 3d OW. - TCa steamer, Philadedphia, which sailed from Now Miasma, on the 3d Instant, En Magna, took out ISO laborers to • work an the Panama ltaLl Road. PITTSBURGH GAZETTE.' PUBLISLIED EY WHITE dr. CO PITT BB VILOTI TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 17,1550 WHIG & AATIAAtGaiO CONVICIITIUM In cormequenee of apprehension being esprerred of the insecurity of the Common Connell Chamber. in the Old Court 130.3, I have been requested by a number of perscms to direct that the Convention to nomioans a candidate for Mayor be hold in the 80. rooms Coca limn of the Now hol d Boras, on Wednesday, the Ifith:lnst,at to o'clock, A.M. WM. oCANDES , Ch M eirMan of Committee. Pirmitizon arm AI,ISOIIILTT Oanun Antral.. —This is an institution of which our cities have reason to be proud. The quiet and unobtrusive deeds of active benevolence which ate performed through its Instmmentality, are eufficient to call forth the patentl admiration and generous bone. valence ore great!, battened people. From its commencement it has been under the charge of a number of benevolent ladies, whose, prudent, and, beoefieient management has truly been worthy of all praise. There are at piesent filly five orphans in the institution, some c f them very young, and the number of the little urifono nate' is constantly increasing. From an adver tisement in our columns we see that the lion is much in want of a Matron, and we learn that it the proper person can be found, ■ good salary will be given. We hope that all the ben evolent will interest themselves in procuring the proper person. _ - The remarks of "Jeann in relation to the Ccii am of Pittsburgh are slightly incorrect, not in di groan population of the city and suburbs, but hr W amount of the population of the city proper. Ho ever, in a low days we shall have the full return to present to= readers. Owing to some delay and confusion in the mails, we failed to receive our Washington papers and letters on Saturday last, but found quite a budget on our table yesterday morning. As the letters of 'quoins" etc all interning, as showing the signs of the times at Washington, our readers will not complain, although they have several together.— They will amply repay a careful perusaL Beiletont.,llfa and Indiana RaII Road ILIC - 21011 OF DIAECIORL The Stockholders to the Bel efontalno and Indi ana Rail Road—one of the links of the great !tee from Philadelphia to St. Louis—met at Bellew, taine, Ohio, on the third inst., and elected the fol lowing gentlemen, to serve as Dilemma for the ensuing year, viz: COMITY. Parr Orr= James H.Godmao, Marion, Marion. Wm. L. Kendrick, Josiah S. Copeland, • Aaron Hartley, Logan, Bollefontaine. John Mills, Shelby, Sidney. Hugh McElroy Lost Houston, " -- Houston. JAMES H. GODMAN, Prca't. Wet. L KVIDItICX,Sec'y and Treasurer. At a meeting of the Board, the same evening, W. MIL2tOII ROLLtli Wu unanimonsly ro-elcot IA Chief Engineer, and the appointment of Is rael Pemberton, and Alexander Worrell, Real. dent Engineer., was confirmed. In the reelection of Mr. Roberts, the Board evinced a doe appreciation of fine abilities, on. tiring energy, ardent enthusiasm, and high Prefre• aional skill, allot which unite in that gentleman, in a remarkable. degree. U Mr. Roberta owned. the whole road, and was to share largely in the whole line from Philadelphia to St. Lottia, he could not manifest more ardor and untiring en orgy than he exhibita in forwarding the intereste of the Bellefouttine and Indiana Rail Road. The Board directed the Engineer to advcrtise for proposal. for the grubbing, clearing, and gr.. ding, on twenty five miles between Lirauce creek and the Western terminus, •t the Ind Una State Lice, (whem this mad connects with the and:Bellefordainen lied Roar) to be let at Jacksonville, Duke county, Onto, on the 2latorJannary next; and on about forty miles be tween Marion and Bellefontaine, to be let et Marion on the sth of February next— rompneir.p, the only portions of the line no: yet under con tract. Contractors will find the advertisement In nor colnmus. Reliable sunk, amounting to over 3150,000,b5s been subscribed along the roots, show tug au iu Mime of local subsenptions, during the cuncnt year, 3150000 of good stook. - --Tha is exclusive St some 'Toes! subsCriptions cf Which may nut be itrinadtabtly asiti!nb's. The rait,e.we I colt al the arelibien, e mg, and bridging, on the whale route of about .• hundred and twenty miles, from Galion Lo th. State Line, is 8480,000. Adding 5120,000, th - estimate oar of tarnishing and laying cross truer &0., ready for the heavy iron rade, make $600,000, showing that about 6150,010, only, ar required to. ensure at uninternipted sod teer getie prosecution of the work, op to the reeep non of the iron, for which it is already known that satisfactory arrangements can he made in du season. Those who are best acquainted with the ability and disposition ofthe people along this important link irr the longest COCItILItIOUn rail road thoroughfare ever undertaken, are entirely confident that thin addi • Lionel amount will be raised during the coming .scason, M the counties of Marion, Logan, Shelby, and Darkei and thin will certainly secure the opening of the whole road in the fall of 1852. A recent letter Gom • Director in the •India. °spas and Bellrfontaino Rai Road"—the fourth link in the great E, and Wei chain—says: 'Oar road is proareasing rapidly. We have the first erotica, from Indianapolis to Pendleton, in op erasion—the ears running on it. Ibe second se, -.iron, to Monica, is In 'great state of forwardness. We ,ball pat down the iron on eight miles of that Loch., to Anderson, by the fire of January next, and the residua in tee spring and summer. We have some hopes of getting the care to hluntee, the end of the second section, by the 4th of July next; but, at all cantata, we shall have that scene, permanently finialied by fah. A good portion of the cutting and grubbing on the next and last section, reaching to the State line, Is done, and the remainder will be dope this winter.. The present condition and future prospects of our connection through Indiana, as far as lodiatutp "ohs, are thus highly flattering; and thence to Terre Haute, the rail road is in the same advanced elate of forwardness. From Pittsburgh io Massillon, as we stated a few days ago, we now have every assurance of a roil road by next fall, and thence to the western terminus of the Ohio nod Pennsylvania rail road. In 1851. By the same period, the Penaisylvanta Central - rail road will present a continuous line of rails from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh; so that it is now al most morally certain, that we shall have no un broken line from Philadelphia, through Plitsburgh, Beaver, Salem, Canton, Massillon, Wooster, Mans field, Marion, Bellefordaine, Sidney, Winchester, Menice, Anderson, Indtariapolis, Re., to Terre Haute, (a total distance of 816 miles,) by the close of 1852. Within one year thereafter, we may look for the opening of the continuation across the state of Indiana to St Louis, and thence across the State of Missouri, as far as indepeadeiree ; making a grand total of over 1,200 miles. What an almost illimitable field here opens upon the statistical investigator! Who can estimate the extent of trade and travel which ouch a thoroughfare must in all 'human probability attract and concentrate to this Mississippi of Rail Roads? Great, indeed, must be the country which m the bnef space of a few pears; can by individual effort, without injury to any of her interests, almost without feeling the expenditure, construct more than a thousand ini les of this magnificent highway of nations! What n monument of modern enterprise will it present to an admiring world, and what an example to pos. laity? How much happiness, comfort, and profit, collective and individual, it will create, augment ing at:the mme time, without natiodel atd, the an tion's greatness, by unfolding her immense inter nal resources in lime of peace, and by affording, In time of war, her cheapest and best means of defence! And with so much effected with Buell com Par. lively hauled means, can the Government long haiitate to cwry out a wort: no ably be:guano its ulti mate destination—the Pacific ocean? The good of our own land—the commercial wants of two Rein isphetes--the spirit of the age hi which we live, all demand its speedy consumma lion; and proud should we be, arta people, to poisessing the territory oacr which - it must be conntrUcla All the conquests and glories of Alexrondcr and Napoleon %Ink into insignificance,(wbactre.wite are considered) compared with that one fearless de claration oilitmaan rights which Caveto m n coon• try free for such a triumph as Cans or KAWAILIk Corm, Va.—The total population of this comity is 1.5,354—free white in. habitants, 12,007; free black do. 207; 'slaves, 3,140. The total population of Charleston, where are the set works, is 1,469, of which 457 are claw. The population oldie; county In 1840 was 13,567; since that tints Kaaawila has parted wile poet. 5,000 of bet Malaga°. now tacleded IA other *MUM ViOIII WASEHINGTON. Conespoulew ve of the fhttatorgh t;tuae.. Wasunr.arrart. Dec. 11;1650. A A., irk Cooly teas—The Tsai= laternall 'wore...am a—Complaints of the Mex. lean 1111:itat Hampton's Land Buf—Death if dlr. Wood—grilet times —Dope for /loath Carolina—Fugitive Bill aof. le L. repealed. 'Yesterday was n blank in legislation, nothing of omens wan done in ocher [loose. I was much •• used, not thinking it worth while to be indignant in he people's bobs If, at the laborious folly with which he collected wi edam sought to wile away the day, it bout effeenng any thing,or even touching business. e cure with which they evaded Immediate contact with any thing In the shape of the latter, reminded one of the anxious, suspicious, and male., more• meets of the fish, fearful of the hook, but determined to swallow the bait. • A good many excused themselves for doing nothing and encouraging others to the lame, by crying that the erminittees having been announced only yester day morning, and the business of the testae then as signed to them, rt was proper to give them a little time to come together, that the members might have • (4. cent period Of Iciantr. I 3 take one another's atQCIIIII tamer, and take a eonalderate surrey of their duties. I will.brierly sketch tba triging of the day. After half an hstit's miscellaneous proceedings, many members commenced running abougand displaying a M.t fern clousdetermumtion 53 earn their eight dollars, by a good day's work. A dozen or two demanded of the Speaker to know if the lionse went Mtn committee, what would be the order 01 business. The Speaker blandly reformed the House, throogh the anxious en. quire" referred to, that it had bettor ark the chetnean after it went into committee of the whole. The sug gestion was adapted—and Mr. Strong, of irennsy Iva ni, wes called to the chair. The ea ender of last Serseloll was then iwkan up.— The bill tar establishing a beard of accounts oat clams against the government, was taken up, but quickly laid nside Its being of altogether too weighty and seri ous • enaracter for the then temper of the Beane. Mr. Wentworth and many other western members demanded the river and harbor approptiation bill. A shwing contest, therefore, ',trued. The anti internal Improvement men tau sr, stall on, the ultra constitu tionnints said on, the sown dog. of the Treasury— a limner.% park when they and their hunch are not to be triennial, advantaged—said nay, and princi pally the protectionists, who ore friendly to river and harbor approphations, but are determined that that salient ehall not be planed in advance of a modifies . t o n , of Ne tand, said nay, and of consequence. the East nod the booth overbore the West. and the harbor .4 river men went to the wall—ayes 71, nays to, the hard hearted earthman von. 'tit the negative " This uncspected rebuff seemed to chafe tee west -sni men a good deal, and darted the rest of the day they appented to Inc debating in heir own :Wilds the expedieucy nf betting on the - low comb cock," that is,the tariff, by way of bedgir g and tacos themselves In their river and bather intreaunents • Mr. Potter. chatotean of the post oflice,rommittee, then Mimed the Mouth the attractions of ifs bill for reiv-ins the postage rates to five gad three cent. lint the - tempers or rll patties had become soared be the little brash on the riven and harbors and the tariff, . aad there aeon a general cry of dinner! dinner:: met through the Hall like the 1111113060 r Of 6 not distant storm. , The yen and nays were taken no the din.er gentile, and by way of hoodwinking the ',nate, the (louse refused to ailjealo. However, af ter a little mare dalliance with the Ughtwingealhours, victunsand drank carried the day by an astonishing vote, and the sitting closed, each member while tak tog his Lat mi bumng the tune of, ' , eight Winn a day end toast beef " In the Senate, the proceedings were characterized bye lite opera or devotion to duty and attendee to personal ease and convestiet en. That body, how. , et, low the •dsontage over the other or being stile to acreenete lazpww behind the earl of an &locatives.. aton. Tot, brief, the Senate dawdled away halos three quarters of an hour. and then shot the doors upon the spectators, wad d d nothing probably ender less restraint. It Is supposed that the diplomatte non estiuns ur.derstood to have been made, were referred to the appropriate tOMMILIC.I. Mr. (hay to said to be no his way to the capital, and will be bete In a few days. The Mexican Minister has made the moat:nem rel .:presentations to our government of the ncreasi• ty of more effectual provision for the fulfilment of the at.pulations of the treaty of Guadeloupe. It will be remembered that by that treaty we agreed to protect the inhabitants living o• the Mexican aide of tie new line of frontier from the dented.s tions of the Indiana. Bo far, we have utterly fail. ed to de ;his. These outrage, hale teen more frequent and atrocious than ever before. The Mestean Minister save most truly that nothing effectual can be dote without the employment of a audscient number of mounted troops, and he hopes they will be at once forma/ltd. Ho gratta tint owing to epidemic sichneas and bad oro?a,1 the people of the frontier are in • move defence,' lees condition then ever before, and therefore doubly entitled to the sacred observance of the plighted tank at their never. Ile is scariested in all be Bays by notorious forte. On Monday. Mr. Ilainpt in notified die ktmse that be ahooM, co a future day, introduce a Rill gr.otlug three millions of acres of the public laude belonging to the United States to the Suave( Penn. ay' vati• tor the purpose of aiding in the ermstrec. mm of the Penneylvam• Railroad, the PIM/torah and Connelalle Railroad, cod that portion if the and Pew:missals Rtilroad lying within the State of Pennsylvania, m be distributed among the several companie• as follows, to 'Wit two millions oiliere, for the comereetiot of the Peng ',stream Railroad, five hoodted thousand for the cot...traction of the Pittaborgh and Coneellsvine fisibuad, nod Ilse hundred thousand for the rots struction of the °Sin and Pennsylvania Rail road. The macond w•.tion of the bill provides that the Coverts• of the Stare shell I•a'e post rto clec and to self Ms 1.t..1s desserts...l,st a ly they, reeds towards th etwahu t.en of the twts S. works named, to the pmpor.tuns l.idiested by the terms of the proposed greet. It is hardly probable that a bill cf this character will pass without et:en sue opposition from the Representatives of the new States, who seem beat upon the approgia• bon for their own use of all the public lands wit., in sot only their own borders, hut include-0 is the urorgairsed territories Though not ,oSte•ently iefermed upon the subject to have formed a clear opinion upon the best policy for the goveromen• to regard to as lands, I am matted to think that she ought to reserve them drat to meet the toter• est and principal of the debt for which their pro. reeds are able - 6 ray pledged, and next to furnish to nil boss firs emigrants and renters farms at a low price for gcnetutiOna to come. But it Seem. that mtent la to decide this question, and not right. The lends, which have beeo purchased, surveyed, and generally cared Gee and admioistered by the general government at the experwe of the whole mama, are to be seized by the separate States. and appropriated to their partl^_olnr beuefit, unless the old States step In any tor•: upon their equal share to their division. Mr. II opium's bill proposes and meets the true tissue. It saaa,lo effect, if you Intl persist in dividing ti:.: Wit ch should remain a common fend of wealth, e. sc us our part, to be applied to the same nor,...ves for which you are demanding the whole. Neatly all recant grants Is the sew States have been made upon the pre teem, or wt,h the real purpose of atdieg Is the cona'ructwa of reads sod canals, and improved chanrels of cOmMunicetton generally. Now, Mr. Hampton's bill rests upon the same arminiesit.— The Pennsylvania railroad. proposed to be ad. veneered by the grant, are links of a chain between the Minable and the extreme border of setdemeet, end of a line which will ultimately no doubt ex tend from ocean to ocean. It them is any proprte. ty in gear nag lands tor • road from the Wabash to the ,Mississippi, or from the lake,at Chicago, to Mobile, on the gulf, and with Charleston," on the Atlantic, both of which grants were made at the last aeration, hew ran Western men otject to aid. mg the Penesylvania line, which proposes to con. sect the same interior regions with the era at other points' If this bill should pars it would settle the rights of the old States to Mottle the lands equally retch the now. If it be defeated,lhe ateog• Mc win have bcce decided to laver of the each, wee a Mims of the new State.. It, therefote, Is a matter of great general It - tercet, as well as of uncommon importance to Peonaylvania. There tens nothing done in Congress, to day, farther than to announce the death of Mr. WOOO, of Ohio, which was dune to an appropriate and touching manner by Mr. Police, in the Hen., end Mr. Cease in the Senate. The some melancholy cerementcs will be repeated to morrow, probably, in honor of Mr. flarrnannon, of LOlliniatle, who died at home about the time of the adjournment, having waked to a shadow dining the year pre vious. I am mom and more enriched that we shall have a quiet time of it Its sitter. I have spoken in reapectfut terms, of Mr. G dings' speech against the fugitive slave tau,, far its ability, and a car. min rough sincerity and earnestness about it, which I always like to see in any effort epee which • wan has am his heart. But nothing will foLow it. lie or Thaddeus Stevens, or Ptestou King may Introduce a bill for the repeal of the law, but without any expectation that it wall be acied upon, aed without desipoing ter make any fuse, if It is not. But n very dwunguiahed Sena. tar who hates tied despises this act of legislation as heartily as myself, told me a day that It would rimer be repealed, and never be dec'ared Eamon stettowl, and yet, will never be enforced. It has already fallen into desuetude, although not three months old. The feet which I stated in your pas per, a month ago, as en important wnsideration in reference to the pending agitation, to wit: that the South did not want the law executed, is now becoming universally apparent. They do no' want the fugitives who have learned the lesson or liberty, to be turned back upon them, and are Infinitely more concerned about the barrier. which' some of than free Stater are effecting ageing the influx of free negroes, than at the failure to rue. cute the fugitive law. It will soon be a forgotten enactment, whether repealed or not, if the South are careful not to ask for it. enforcement, which I think they will not. Even South Carolina show. signs of recovery from mad... The moment the eight and pew tics of free discussion arc r sexed there, the din unionists are gone. Since Grayson, Romblon, Thompson, and Poinsett, have gained the public ear, the other side has been heard, and the dia. unionists have actually found it necessary to ar. gue the lodge. Argument its worst, fir them than cannon balls, and therefore there ia mason to hope that the State will soon be rid of their se. ditiouri and Kati:canal weasels. Justus WantMitlTOri, Dec. 12. Pointlath:on of Plttabozgh and Jleigh• bethood-.tteelval day In the Senate... Ohl Humbugs—Removal. f/01111 There have been so many OROUtollllatatementa concerning the population of Pittsburgh, as atm. tained by the present census, that I have drought it would be satisfactory to your reader, to obtain some authentic information upon the subject. I am en abled by the courtesy of Mr. Kennedy the supenn tendent of the census to state that though the official returns have not yet beep received, it is known that the population of the city moped w, ut found num ber5,65,000, and of Allcghmay 21,639—giving80A33 inboth place, '1 here is nothing frornwhich any re liable emulate of the number of inhabitants in the Opposite suburb can be made. The increase of Putsburabonclodum Alle;heny,since 1840 has been dent 55,000 persens; or about one hundred and seventy five per cent. Northumberland county has 33,323 inhabdantS, showing an increase since 1830 of 3,300 or about fifteen per cent. In a few weeks the whole of the Northern States will have been received and'ermfiged, so that the entire pop ulation of that part of die country will be known. But so numerous and various ore the inquiries di rected to be put for the collection of statistical in formation, and so distant urn many of the districta from the camtal,that the aggregate results cannot be classified sad prepared for publication for ninny mouths to come. Front present appearances j the population of the I 'toted `tats may be net donn at, between twenty three and twenty tour millions and the reboot rekewidation at nbout one hundred thousand There was an autii,inz discussion today intim Senate, together with some very critical reminis cences occasioned by otmrhauling the budget ofleg: relative remains which have come over to to !fop the last session. The lot of deferred 'resell:diet s came up, and one of the Mat which appeared was that famous ono of Gnu Coss for suspending diplo• matic intercourse with Austna. Ala. poor ghost was on every - Senator's lip.,ris it glided before theta is the habiliments of faded tinsel and fustian, With which the oratory of as supporters had clotheif, it a year ago. But presently after there broke forth from every seat on the floor and in the cutleries a good helmeted ha-ha ha—the father of the interesting] de facet shaking his capacious sides in the general glee—and It was laid under the table mew con, Next came up Bradbury's resotution, as genuine, though not quite so bald a flambee as the other,calk Ina for the names of all per Noiis removed Ineeel the installation of Gen. Tat tor's admintstration,and the reasons therefor. Many will omiember that this resolution was the touttiall of the Senate from the opening of Mit session sent Me death of Gen. Tay lor, seven mouths, and bin tor that melancholy e vent might have lean kicked and bandied about for seven months withdmwn by the movie . It is a plain and palpable party and elec. tioneernm movement. \V lien it was namedas still on the docket,tdr.blancton mid as it had been talk ed threadbare to empty bouies for so many maths he supposed it would only be. common charity to let it die a• natural death. • ..• - • It. author, however, said he would modify the same to suit CireUrllitatztle, nod called for a : vote, and thereupon area the debate of the day. 'Whit comb brought up the mire in Gen. Lane appo'nted by Polk, Governor of Oregon, end a iperseded by Gen. Taylor, and Gwin, of California that of Col. Weller, appointed by Polk Commissioner of the Boundary Survey, and superseded by Gen Taylor's appointing Prenium_ Whitcomb eulogised Lane without stint for hi. service,. in Mesico,calling him in the usual vein the. Marion of the War, and Or. Gavin entered upon a^rti , at ru•onons against the late ad• ministratiun,in connemtea with Weller's case. He brought an array el actoorns nod correspondence to contain nun In tlre :1,+,1101E that Weller was per fectly correct in iill semley affairs between himself and the government. Ile sste to a settlement there was a balm. dun Weller of four thousand dollars. • Mr. Ewing delenticti the minsmstrattou of which he was a member, w.th the most perfect mccese.. Notwithstaodum that be wee planed in a position of great delicacy. bring officially aware of many kat, motives, and co.rennormera bearing open the defence of the Imo mlrenietrelien, which he could not with prere tr adduce la hie oir• jus tification, he deve'oped titaradautly euoug to 4e• mouetrate iho propraty and necessity of titworse .!:a he took. The very . so , of compleinln of the ~, removal of Intieria Fartimi• an John B. 1. ellOr, In favor of such A era:: as eel. Frocront,is propos.. laves. The tient. I,ljoerrerl at half past three o'clock, over to r 4 :nosy, ss about concluding the debate. . The House tvaaea s •;c:. Ea a emsiderabk part of the morning, its a resoludan authorizing to Post fdeie u r Gene,' to despatch Map, 8, H. Hobble, gnu IILKIStf,I P. M. U., to Panama, New Grenada, Califon:, Jed ('regain, to mato much needed arranaeroes.te for 'he transportation of the malls tKlareeo tine atnan.l.r and Pacific roasts, and to arrange the route. through California and Oregon. After s , cog debate, and many alteration.. among others ryas of striking OW Mr. Hobble'. name, the wail laid over, with the prospect or as tt(tb.,:tt, to morrow. WASIII , tifON, IM-. 13, 1530. Babe. In the Wood Treeenrp Report d the liaritr-tieneral banspterie Cleirs-L nil' II tee piton.- Jenny Lind•s Concerts- tienerel Ugroty and Society. I reffered, to too pus vitertewa the Senate rock held over Muse de • parted innocent, —lmo one Weller. The debate Was adjourned so Ott t vv.- have art yet had a verdict, hut it o it.: the ingot - at wit be cOn• tinned on Monday, warn we may expeet some Interesting • VeNetcto .v. .1 Wednesday; there Wta 511 v Valet, tv I/11 the Ocertooratie side, to ‘ - p . teh ccc • :,t,, Ito a the last man In the world to emet while the milling pnxen is going sat h own pertion, and I predict that he will tl,rt.fy rimeelf wilt facts and documents, and I tar ~dad again, will give tome of the over ace time, i•ounie, in the pact,. moat unexpected, soot cot :vette ti - aaine. It it a tattle atagular that three try caret thOtlld just be tl• ken op, since one of ..heaa le ore:arty two-yeara, and Loa other of mole thaii one year's standing. 1 I liken them to Inc babe. sir tan wood, whoae little I Ladies the .paeroia. aerate:4 covered - with leaves, which were bli.wo away with the late au. tem. gale., and that. tacit , carotins were dlanotr. tried. perha-m, a is Well Coat these two pollll. elansateuld have a pubs, erd decent funaral a .st the hinc'•. - fthe r frio Alta stria v. •si . • e: Ito ewesiih 1:e Iraretietee, a. Ire friends of pre.ee :co a much csandinen, upon Me effects of int statements and arguments. in sdvancing their came. The house floundered through a ai.titig of thrve hours to day. 1 b eve the rewslutlon atittratising the appoletreent of it Pea, (Mice Agerit kr the Ptelfie Coast was pvkavtl. Bait the greater part of the sitting woe consumed in debating a bill for the rebel of the h,:v cf Grit. Suroptc,r, of South C4.191.G1a I wan anrprivd to see the till rejected by a Vary large tiaalor•lV. It it almeel-krlit Inman( cin vita-:h I het, ever known shine Sewhern chum ortate - d with rho foment the Disk, gation of the Stele presenting it, fail. Bel able did loll; and I had :t at en omen of greater seen. city to the treasury. I boor nothing about the fad ed . the ease, tat I am sore that it must have been an now trod or, comma from South Caroline, it would have. li-et, ptid. There is no end to the same, which the - treasury has been plondercd, within the trot melee years, on rotten claims from the 5.,111 , , Loth Writh'auil without the sand on of tiltirre.•. 'rho lialptioa and the Barron elatelt, e - az,:a MIA as they were, were fate specimens or the moat.. by which many manes Of dollars have brae ii!,•4.13 float the treasury on fraudulent revolut . iiiier„ •• men (ruin Vagina, and Cherokee and CIO - to .; and other Indian swindles from (caber S , ut.•. • o Lot that It would be any exaga,r,beoci 'het twenty GVe mil lions of dollars In:,, o upon such false preteue, a. c a. It ie time all effectual cheek wore ,p,a, !hunt practices. The levee, of the prese•eot begot to he crowd. ed by brillignt throng, of viaiteis Society hunts. shrilly gay here tht ,, or,. . I Love lever mown the place more crow Led. Bills and routs are the order or each suceced,cii ht. The concerts of Jenny Lind, whicu go to swell the *aid that rho tnontro ha pawns, and anal pn• e to bring from a and Idea that half that r cm one night. n Menday debt, will LirAl.le gayety. it is r n tinel to hold 3000 . ed epee the 00111 re S'toooo. 1 have no will be reiolved en sty .11M11314 111relaTAKT AR ra...r.—. S. S. Limas—Beatty of Ms .I,llsas of otor_ll leo, .s , honan —Oa Wedges• day Ole:coon, 111—.' ~s 1 nritr.t Street was affect. ed by police office,' Burls y end Nucleon. Mae, • tailor on board the I. eon/Mire, whose crew took off the pansy:tee, inqc Me Helena Slump, el Hambuuth, vhi - iii 0 iiinktug topthiton at sea, Tess selling U. i'.. ty3riti to woken, which had been taken from li !roe, .n the mail bags of the lost vessel., by id,. A:10) 11. ,Ine others. Ho bad sold three bonds !or trio if ten to a broker lo South tarter, for 515 e'en. r 1.- rater, traced him to a sailor's Wartime lo,i.ii ~ Weler street, and one of them pretend,. ,i,1 4, , ,, (A looker, and would give a higher midi Ad le bonds than Max bad Oilseed bon. the olio r ,kers. In this Way ha got into the Who:, I e4..1., nod ascertained the: name of the poop ti em the three bonds had been sold. Mae at, .I o e taken into custody, and seven bonds for $ll7 n-:-,til were found on his person, which, with de ,her three that had been (_, sold, made /MOO Til, item is important, as the brokers will, of cow, Le Warned to stop these bonds when o ff ered fir S alt, and persona purchas ing them, knowitig toe to he robbed from the Helene Stamen's tont A. WO: lie liable to arrest, as accessories eller the leo!, or as receivers of stolen pods . After the paseencer• w ere all removed from the 111 hated venal, the rood 1.,..t... were npeued, sod the contents taken. Th. ni , no asying whet hae been the extent of the ittibioy. but it is believed to ha very greaL—N. I. Ihr.ll. Tun CArrtys DAc.orritt Wurrs.—The St Loots Dcp.ttlit. t t pu 1,1 n the circular of the emu , intsttioner of Itidtio lino,. pd.lreerd to D D. Made ell, supenntedent tt.t.l nt St Louts, appris ing him th•t eat , t . oi toboattid dolisrsisof fered by Dm t utratt tor the roco•orr of the daughter of Ile Into d M The COMM,•i,:ll^ nd ,iittes abet having . ep p , opratted fa:‘,.en het da.ler. for the redemption of Ili. child, he 11 nnehlur tint the money shell be ea expended as to giVe Oil ca.:ri to the benevolent inten don of shot bode. 'Troia the latest received upon the sub /am,' he says. “il 14 Fri,. ved that atIC yet remains in eertislty mambo thr Al , n , lies proper. or that mixed band termed .la/tenures • u, far years pool, have Infested the isielnlty iir 9, n Fernandez de Taos, the country between it eii.d Fort. and the Santa Fe mad, near the settlement of New Mexico: Vol itts pos sible she may bare linen ieri by her captors to Ind , . aim of some other ti. , e lobe nan about three Yeats of •p.” It L e to be hoped that the iiiievolent design of Coo great may be •eremOished I,y the discovery and ma ma of Una child at an cite:). Jay . Weigh. Repub. VALe. Or • Selena Von:lc—We see It stated by a correspondent of the llama Journal, that Jenny Lind pays .L 1,500 cute- me English lee 'me ten. She has invented in the ilogii,ll three par cents. about '67:41/30. Iler anneal income, therefore, from that source alone is about li e gams that she nu given away in chanty about ioi,eoo-11400,1n— as near egit.be estituatc,L 1-tr,600 of this we. /O. an in England; 1.5,1.10.1 in Edinburgh. In Edinburgh she gave five concerts at a guinea a ticket. On the finite= she cleareddweaq Enousnnd pounds; and On the fifth an additionel five thousand pounds, which Iry devoted tc lave..., no ostimalSO the en tint Ewa one million of dollars. The celebrated Engl novelist. G. P. R. James, Esq., la at present sojonralng Is PbaladeLa tats. Gime Elmsneo.—A number of persons in the vicinity of Austin, Texas, San Antonia and Corpus Christi, are inakingentemove preparations toe:miens the traces of the old cities and mining operations on. the head waters of the Colorado, and on west to the Rio Bravo, betwoen El Paso and Santa Fe.— The government surveyorshave discevernd signs of extensivi works, and some specimens of native gold and silver have been found in the hands of the Indiana. Tux Groove or Now Sensor —The census re turns show the population of soma of the principal Cities in the State of Newlersey, as follows: Tren ton, 10,766; Camden, 9,5(4 New Brunswick, 7,893; 'Jersey City, 7 ,( 8 ) 0 ; Borlington, 4,536; Mount Holly, 2,783, Newton, Sussex, 3,279; Flemington, 847 ; Lamberisville, 1,416; Princeton, 2,440; Salem, 3,- 054; Somerville, 1,200; Woodbury, I,ooo;Bridgeton, (Cumberland,) 3,303; Bordentown, 2,769; Newark, 38,832; Patterson, 14,220. An out SatL.—A vessel was loading at Musquash;; near St. John, a few days since, which dents for' England, named the Atm which conveyed General Wolf to Quebec, about site year 1757. She is said to be 106yeans old, and was used in the olden times an a British transport. The Railroad recently erected between Callao and Lima ' in Peru, was formally opened for travel on the let November. A large patty, including the President of the Republic, made a short excur sion, when the locomotive ran of the track, kit ling one person and severely injuring several others. The tried of Ruben Dunbar, at Albany, for the murder of two inoffensive children who it was el. leged Wood between hue sad a small annuity, wits brought ton close on Tuesday by the jury finding him guilty of murder is the first degree. He is re. , presented as being but twenty leant of age .and married. It has been mated by the Rev. John Clark, for. merly a missionary in Fernando Po Africa, that there were at Feraandina, persona belonging to fifty ddlerent tr bee, who were so well acquainted with the English language as to moist in translating the Bible into their respective tongues. It is also said that the Scriptures must be rendered into at least two liondred languages before alt the tribes of Africa will be able to read them in that which is peculiar to each. Tho shortest day (tithe winter wAstice, will be the 21et of December, at which lime the sun ob. tains its greatest Southern destination, when will rise at 26 minutes after 7, and set at 30 min. ntca after 1. The new Methodist Episcopal pew Church re cently erected in Norfolk wee dedicated on Sun day last. The pews ore to be told. The church is lighted withopir, and is aald to be one of the hand &omen editiceain that city. the Cashmere ahawls prepared by Maharajah Gould, Biri6h. or /moo. for the Industrial Eobib• itioo io Loudon, are valued it .£lO,OOO, and are bestowed in free gift. On the trustees. Arlo. the, chief sende Caen of steel armor, inlaid with gold. The splendid steam yacht, the Poterholl; built in England, (or the Emperor of Russia, has been lost en her passage out to Bt. Petersburg. blue was neatly 400 tons burthoo, and was fitted with engines 01140 horse power. The boiler in the sugar house of Mr. G. W. Johnson, .et Plaquemine, Ls, exploded on the nd Immo, Instantly killing four slaves.and dsta gerously Wounding the engineer. The force of the explosion threw the boiler over three hundred fret from tin original position. The lons is mints. sed at *12,000. Tho St. Marv'. (Md.) Beacon azyi, that multi to the *nurtures of theospro crop in Inn oration of ottntry, Ss high as S3,so , per bbt. have been paid fur corn. The Comptroller of the city of Neu , York esti. mates OM the ..zrows of the City Govern. weal ter the leer 10 , 1 will he 2,817,597. Of this sum, more than 700,000 WO for the Pollee Depart.. meat. Dr. Turnbull ha chteovcre • remedy fur short wellrldung. by OA •ppilest.l or the eziraet of l oos., to the torehe•cl. aas affect the Oh pair of 1,, APPOINTMENTS BY T P RES] DEN T. By and triA the cultnce and r. Harm of the &watt. RreLard H Bayard, a , Debra. e, be charge d'Af faires of rho United Srateeof A •e ca in Delgerre,ro place nt Tbo• Clemson . . roe Charier, tt Haratr k, of Ne Ilampshrre. to Le Ceara , : dAllacroo 01 the VorroJ tares of Arnerrea in P0110,•1. inplaec Of h. Brown tray, recalled' at his own 1,11.1,11.1 VAIL°. A itun.L. au. Lear, Who is children. to an orderly heuseh. take eharan of the Pittsburgh Airylimb would hear of a g.l sGlary by &optima to MRS dapable of governirg eon, and willing to r ad Altrowy Ort , ban .od attutoon ar.d 1 ,1 / 4 111PLE KDBINGTON,or 110111NdON. MRS' Lel7 - ems itellautlon plesw roma eLsrgej ILIPRESII TO PH (A7E boos mode arrangom above KsproJot rLog Stueo to illonidaystmverh, ft :4 Ron. Rm. to Ph i . tkatymax hoots. thooll_pact de7:dtm D R FC :LAD/LLPIIIA. u for running the • e whiter vason. by from thence by Tsai.. delphia. Through in Ilkonly eon be taken. CO-Canal Basin Th. last Oars is Putsiargi to dui REAL GOOD TEAS is AT 11110/31118 de IIAVVOILTIPP TUA STOOK, ••• . t Mho, tel otaimmo oe, Ile, awl 61,00 pox. ponied, All n tlylgrondes Tear. The Block Tear at iSe the Green Teas at 11,00 are Me very boa Te imported into the U. State. del: Frans • .111. Inos, Le. 10 P: ;l?ees ii. e ‘ ,;:o k I t . ":‘,` 4 I ' l ' . 2." o; 1 IV do Pan= lta Cloth, ell olonr, ISO It Coburg do do • Ott do Alpsee t , Just opened by deli ! A A MASON A. CO, 6/ & GI Martel at --- 9niIPROCIIE, Pa State, Scotch, Waterloo, and UV Waterykit Long and Square Shrrla, Jet t calved by (del. A A 51AS V„..f"2'1- f - 11DER—SI I,lls to ottee 7 .'d \4ld ri t b f lint N s - ro ri % , del? FLOUR -1.6 W 4 far ddl7 I=l B' ~,,; 12-110 dos fa :.MM H JOHNSTON !tale by NM H JOHNSTON SUP:EP PliLTS—ltu r! del./ LEL 11-1000 pig. roe ..or, for sale by Jell R. El= M==l ptiACIIES-17.1 bass dcl7 R, r Mayflower. ter sale b• ES, MAITIIEWS tr, CO Pia sit:rm.--576 ton! d