TUE. QBSERTER. B. F. SLOAN. Editor. • 711T:4 1 •I f To FV'Ai T t 1-*/ SATURDAY. 311021" 'MAT 21, 1259 litimi•Drimperatio Ticket. ~:.**-aoserSoussoi.i • • LAPII-11.0grrIPS,11.1MOIRALL9 Irks' Itiesseltusetts Restriction. Two 'weeks se wo caged . the attention of our remises to the proposed intendment to the Constitution of Massachusetts, which the T eeple of that state have sines adopted by * delded italiorky of the votes cad at the 1 4sidiPsi, sdostlif the naturalised oitir sea is deptieed of, his right to vote tvat years after ion. This Movement of the Republicans of litaanchusetts ought to ma the eyes of our adopted citizens, who hese political predilettions in that direction to the proeiriptive tendency of that party. In 18* as every politician knows, there was a very large body of Germans, and other foreign born votere, who, carried miry by the cry of "free men and free labor," voted for the Republican candidate* Prethient. They forgot that the Republican party two years previous was the Know Nothing party--that the mine men governed 14 in 1856 as in 1854, cad although policy in that year dictated to them the propriety of concealing their well known sentiments upon the question of nateralisstkei, they were in reality as much at heart Zloty Nothings when the/ went to vote far Fremont, as they were two years Indere when they met in council in secret *nee to drill their forces for the Coming political battle. This is demon strated by the course of the Republicans in liaasschusetts upon the question we refer to. That state, as is well described by the Boston aorrier, ever since the sud den and startling apparition of the Native party in the autumn of the year mention ed, has been governed by a coalition be tween that party and the Republicans.— The men who were then, and are now, the leaders of the Republican party, immedi ately rushed into the Know-Nothing lodges, and humbly begged permission to eat whatever• dirt was requisite to invest thorn with the privileges and immunities of the order of the Dark Lantern, which request, alter due deliberation, "Sam" grir cite* vouchsafed to grant on certain con ditions. In such a coalition there was a total abandonment of principle on both sides. It was a marriage of convenience— s of spoils. This point we cannot atop to ; and to any man of uncm rupted moral instincts it needs not to be argued. One of the conditions, of the bar pin betWee* the two factions was that both should k together to carry thro' the logs z that amendment to the Constitist4ni on which the people last week voted u and adopted. The bargain has been fairly kept. But in the meantime the Native American party, whickcanse up like the gourd o? the prophet Jonah, .• . s r s s • grave.— ,But Republicanism has enlarged its sphere and erpandedita hopea. It embraces the whole nation within the grasp of its grow ing ambition. Visions of cabinet offices, of foreign embassies, of collectorship', of post officer, begin to play before the deeded eyes of hungry politicians. The lean kite which have been nibbling the scanty herb. age of State and county patronage, look with longing eyes upon those fat national pastures where Democracy crops its flow ery food, knee deep in treasury gram.-+-- But the moment you get outside of Mae eachumetts, Know-Nothingiran - becomes sin offence and a stumbling-block in the eyes of the Republican party, or at least a large portion of them. In the national race it would Ws dead *eight on the back of the Republican horse; and hence went up to Masaaohusetta from all over the land a swell ing and reverberating voice of protest and remonstrance. The Republican State Committee of New York seat a lathe*. letter of reasmegrance to their Massacha setts hmethein. The West, was stirred through all her prairies. The blue-eyed and yellow-bearded tribes that eat sour krout and drink lager beer by the side of the Missouri and the Wisconsin, as they erst did on the banks of the Rhine and the Elbe, sent their wise man from the West, Yr. Carl Shun, topreach the gospel of leotirrholid and humanityto the heath en in the East. Vainly does a Massachn setts paper plaintively suggest that its "Western friends have no more right to take offence at the restrictions which we cheese to lay upon fraudulent voting thin we have to complain at the, oppressive laws splint Ease °woes in so many of the Republican States." "It's very straw them kind of men . went lot a body be." but they wont. The • New York Tribe*, which in the Wearers of the Republican press, set the °erns*. * edifying exam ple of political haritely by frankly abmde. ting that it*ra right in principle to termer an interval between n.sturalisatisbi and the exceedse of the privilege of voting, but prayed the Republicans of Itsemician setts to vote dowatheamendment, bemuse "its adoption now would work enormous mischief, especially throughout the West, and might even defeat the election of a Republican President hi 1860." But all would not do--the bargain which the *- publicans of Massachusetts made with the *dowers of "Sam" was carried out to the letter—the amendment which compel). the 061111111, the Celt, the Sootekones the IneieluiLan to wait two yeituraftetheb coming tedetntliaed—toaldus his igniation seven yesesinsteadel• the greary ignorant wive who rasps bent Shivery in the South ie at once schoitted to citi%. senship,—rwas paned Alutiosit tironiso ive Rapoldhan legidatunee, and last week adopted by the Republican votenr at die ballot bor. And . sow what di these Gem. nuns wb :rested their &iamb in MR, and not tinihr lot with such a party, *kat of it. WM thuy Ma the head that sod* them, end aathelhat hand In wresting the. goverutoent been the Danonstio s party id 1860 f we don Iwo "". A! A mow uramm, mad the Atrati bat ibr Um, bar* sad itiftvoi4 Compaq, war iseadied la Dotal° as Tharsdayi 11l , 1 -, _ Huntimuty of EuropeanNom, The mew l * hrought IT the Vigo Shows that the Austrians do not movutotais con test with as much aim* am it was*, first supposed they would. ' Thy seem ear ions for a fair fight, toy silts and Sardinians atmn time to iiestoen trate. Thus far they have pined nothing by their sadden movements. On the lid inst., the Emperor of the French addressed to the Carp lagfidatif a statement of the result of*. negotiatkno, widen ennetUroW merit that tht Austrian invasion of Sardinia could only be regarded as a timlon of war, and as such the French ,Government regarded it., The Emperor was to leave for Sardinia on the 6th. The Austrian army in the meantime had advanced to the &nisi and 'had occupied Vercelli, a City of Sardinia, about 30 miles from the' Ticino and halt say on the high-roid be tween Milan and Turin. From the posi tions of the opposing armies, it was thought a colliskin could hardly be postponed be- ' , yond the 6th inst. The sabor of the war upon the stock market had already react ed. The' rate of interest, however, was raised in Franoe and at the centres of Ger man trade, and the Bank of -England was expectedito advance on the 6th Mat. The English Parliamentary elections were near ly concluded—the Ministry failing to secure a sufficient gain to give them the new House oft Commons. From India we have limportint news by the Vigo. The rebels had been defeated badly by a combined movement of the English troops, 500 of them having been killed in one fight, in cluding several officers. The main body HO the rebels were still at•lNapsul on the Bth of April. Rajah Mannsigh surrender ed his force on the 2d, and Tintia Topee was captured on the Bth. ' ' News tine day later than the above, per steamer Canada, alters the state of the war very little. The Austrians are shivering before the plunge, and advance very slowly. , They have been repulsed in an attempt to cross tha t Po at a place called Trasaiho in the 'despatch, but which is Probably Trino, a point ten or fifteen miles south-west of Vercelli; iihich they had previously occu pied. Their van-guard was at Tronsano, a town on the direct route from Vercelli to Turin, and which is much nearer Turin than Alessandria. If we are to suppose that the main body of the Austrians are to pursue this route, it is evident that they in tend to avoid Alessandria, leaving it to the southward, and marching directly upon Turin. Their forces are scattered over a large district of country, and, apparently, in a position where they are liable to be cut off in detail, without any general bat tle. In the meantime, they are bothered by inundsitions, to which the flat country of Piedmont is liable, and which it is in the power of the Sardinians' to produce at any time. Both Emperors, Napoleon and Francis Joseph, are to take command in person. l ow When we state the proposition that the right of property is Cotattitutional, any, intelligent man will understand that we i refer to the Constitution of the United Stites—Jthat written . instrument which re ceived the sanction of Washitgton, and Jefferson, ar4d other patriot; of the Revo luticrn—andtick to the "natural" or ph3rsi- he assumes, as lie does in his last paper, that we "argue that the negro is tusbotalty a slave," he shows a very long pair of Edi torial ems, and exhibits himself in no very enviablyight before the few intelligent readers who look over his editorials. We say the Constitution of the United States recognizes the right of property in slaves-- the debates 6 the Convention that framed that instrument show its members intended to have it recognize that right—the legisla tion of the country since has invariably recognized it—and more than all, the Su preme Court, which wait created by that in strument for the purpose of deciding all questions of Constitutional law, has so de tided; and that is sufficient • for us. The difilcultpr with the Err, is that it forgets the. distinction between a State and a terri tory. The one is a sovereignty, with a Written constitution and law, framed and adopted by the people thereof, while the Ither is a colony--a dependeney ! ---of thirty ne sovereign States, with no Constitution r written law but the Constitution which finds the thirty-one sovereign States to- ether. And hence the theory of the Dred 400tt dieision that the owner of a slave in # State recognizing slavery does not Leask his- right of property in that slave when be ‘moves to a territory. Bat what is the die of Arguing this, or any other question tt%th a person so dumb as to mistakes plain Astern"' in regard to 'rights guaranteed by the .constitution of one's country, and rights Which are inherrent in themselvea, 1 r or "natural" rights I i 1 lir The New York .7Wea;, ajounuil itbieb Amities the doodad political goo to the Republican party l sayb, in a late article on the revolution in Hayti ii:A onasidersble part Of the White polio ion of Hayti (at the time of the aboli tion oLllavery in that country) 1 were pis dos, sts-ealled little whites, the same as the P(R)R WHITE TRASH of jour South an Stales, wout education tiut etkeethn ith * gly tenacious uca , of • 0 WHITE TRASH NORTH and South, of a distinction which enabled then to take Unit with the most aoootop4shed and Wealthy MEN OF COLOR l" , IThe Cincinnati Biros,- ; ratites pupas ilyte. Itilsililicaris wM not my )any thing about &niter Hamm:sail's famous 4 usisinsts of isiciety. -We rather guess too I 1 • i a the Editor of the £ejwa4 has twice, .g 16 brief editorial ' here, in -1 wiser ' "Pu Zitar . , by unsaid° that she a this et 10111epetiod of his °Connection oi ' • it 'th it; atiounseied diangsnindkoz& in the • 4 the Democratic party, and lent . .. ..to "schemes to dedeiti iti mnsan a . m , . p ' If the etnbignons in tenikoes o ow ,i . . ?id' , the *rail mann tids in pleb :, we-want histi to ty' •. , OLIO*, is giiing as it to a Adis. ~ , , , The' charge b 7 who** lands ia, , . in* 4 ferenoe melts* trile,,6la the • .- • . , of it boa &ffl , ,/i f 1 11 4 01 4. 11 j1Wit.,-, .stir itett:o4. apseameeipit worn made at the request of essdrich honself.4.! We find, also, in the proceedings otthe Republican county Convention, held en the 17th of thit•akalfinaNdh• that this nags "S. J. Goadrier necked sixteen votes ext the first Wei he a candidate for the Ler libitum. Now, what we want to know IX this--is the "S. J. GeociricAn 49 edits the Repress the same Individual • who author ised the Editor of the Mail to annennoabis name in the firsephstia, and who reeeived those sixteen votes in the Republican con vention in the women kiss is the same man, and has "voted the meths straight. out Democratic ticket of Pennsylvania, with nary a scratch on 'it, foe tweatyeight ' years," then indeed is he one of the most successful dealers in two faced politics that it has ever been our torturee to unearth and expose. Just think of it—te man who hair voted a straight ticket of one party for twenty-eight yeast, and nowboa 4sti" it, professing to act with another toe three years during that twenty-eight, delimiting in its counsels, using its'orgen to announce himself as a candidate, and re ceiving the votes of its delegMes in its con ventions, and all the time not acting with it ! Why, Arnold's treason was not so bald as this. The spy who, when caught in the enemies camp, is by the rules of war liable to be shot, acts no more despicable pert than the Editor of the .Express now boasts he acted with the Republicans of Warren I We repeat the question-4 he the same individual ! TO TEI PUBLIC. The I/sanctions in Cent, at its lastfieseion in reference to the custody &lame of the Court House, have attracted a good deal of public attention, which has bean kept alive by the aotioes taken thereof in several of the news papers of the country, We think proper merely to state that our action in the matter was in pursuance of what we deemed to be our dug under the law, which we ourselves, eadimbmitted to 4 0=oounseit, wine. opinion concurred with ours. At oar request, be has furnished us a widen opinion on the subject, which, with ids obaseat, we submitted to Ewan Mawr, Esq., whose used to it is indicated by his signature thereto. We publish this opiates to show that we have bees actuated by ao caprice to the mat ter, but what we reprded, and mill regard, as sa imperative duty. As to the employment of a keeper of the Court Motase w trosmds, at a salary of $$ a year, we merely say, that has been does ever dace the ilresacy of the new Court House, and was by our predeces sors as , true samenty. addition to de, all his time during .the witcear to the oars of the Court House and presenting the fuel sad tending the the keeper has always acted as tip sters in the different Courts, without pay, la theme etothele eadagbetheeame en pithy, amounts to upwardeof /180 permanent Without a special keeper, we are satisiked,that any public/ building, so conspicuous and so muck frequented as a Court House, would be so neglected and abused, as to require, for eleasing and repairs, aastudl, nom than the aaVOn Commisakeers' Mee, t GOULD„ , Brie' May 17, 1869. I WM. PUTNAM. lb the Consmissimurt of Brie • Coessiy : The Court of Quarter Ehtsidonsont Tuesday lest, made an order that the Court room should be opened that evening for the purpose of hold ing a public meeting on the subject of the pro posed Penn Industrial Reform School, for which an Act of Incorporation was passed by the Leg islature at its recent session. You ask my written opinion on the power of the Court to order the room to be opened for any other purpose than that of holding Court. The following is all the legislation au the "abject of public county bniklinp, their own ership and care, which ealsto en our &atm Book. It is found is Purign's Dipa 211-212, and is is the Act of Assembly of 16th of April, 1834, entitled .9ln Act relating to Counties and Townships," ;fie. Bscruon S. To sue and be sued, Be. 2d. To take and hold reel estate within thesr respective limits, and also personal property; Provided. that such real sad personal estate shall be taken and held only for the benefit of the inhabitants of the respective minty and township, and for such s{ ti mod and sone other, as county and !otnehip rates and levies are now, or hereafter may be authorised by Is, to be laid and collected, and for such other oldeets sad porposseas may hereafter be erprady authorised by • - See. 4. The *depend*power, of the several counties and townships shall be exercised by er Supervisors thereof, re- spectively. Sao. le. It shall be law** fbr the Conuoito doom of any county, had lest obtained the approbation of two vearand Juries, and the Court of quarter Sessions of such octant", to cease to be areacd at the Seat of Antic* thereof, when atateion shall require, - for t ba r= i t kp or t ce=, Bl4 :dl em d r at several oilcan of the soon sad for she don and safe-keeping of the Peered§ and ether papers in charge of =oh *aro, and also end other buildings u Ittijr be nesoessamy and prep- er for the Jail and Work- house, enriplzbezi" grossollet I the ~ion of melt • Sic. 11. It shall be the dety of as Camas- sifter* of every county, tai hap and" sodesdeia the puha* beadier adiroisid, of > the egnaty, in =gable sod eanss dwf cad and it I shall be lawful lbrilass w ,be I first obtained the of t t Jury aid of the Court of !*sacs* et the eauttattLalter, add tb, or Wargo welt public By the 2=riion as &sties 3 as abets, the county (and by section Cate Conuidesignare I represent the eounty,) bo* the Court How" and grounds appurtenant Tell deined ) sad R oan purposes, viz slesh "CbeA,ngig. end /site ore Sad as ealiimijir," the use of the words, overmas *Like In dal eoesse day, ell others are esitr and intattlaudly prohibited. pow ibis4iiiikkorCocit, Wiss tie Oast idici Coot ances, MIMS SOS 'deo. -Whit irculd. Woo flow iis Mut woad owco a = mitt_ostaridlci ai Amor abecl,l dicomiy sy hcialirciasosim Ogoldimeadi dichotic bog bid Ake Omit nom • UKtr die cier Illosca, Bra per 1911111 die Cart +en , yst of 4 = 4" sommt. 31 8 0 7 or mq All caw my M 64, _roost somplary 414 • no re mil I,or 4111044- billi b all% it limaid Por = ,Clowt 6o• poommoks, =6".. bails leiadlit ease • ' Odloser A doll* • -auptiie Old and Ms (X OMB ,per perv, w___, _ _ ty 7 -- .720410191 s ibe ~ ',-Wi- - - 1141IliktacelP,41 6 / 1 1. 1 0A 100- , WWI -114110lebtaggiog .1•0 4 .4,- .', ~ , ..wirsAilicli zrorm•; '... . : , T ribriZ riv r ei 1 tilf ' Vingai ' • a ,inr i i ii ik. sa. AV le, or ' 11 147 7- 411 of doe i- 4 ' 4.4a. ` . ja, • ~., -; ;UPIPD• gas sP =ite:f the ersad rea . thil Cohn a 1 flead is sea eas %Are they 1 make such elterstlsa, air. Thb provides does art ilve deaVoset - or the (head Juy,etatheatty Warder the watt to be dose, bat hp dissivisti pay se a priding in- insist if: what weal etherwbe be as sedisi- bed dberation is dot Consmbilemers. I This elterabese e seirMag to, ;or adsresewent, which repthremAesorseatef the Cleat sad Grand Joy, issears reeter* shell. eit. the buildinp, not s mere repair ,f - le PA 1 sad keep than na b "suitable Niel oluvalt order sad repitir siey be 41.107 As Comsdasiosses Want sash provtoix• appro. 1 val. . , in the ibtegelliglogiftdve pervisious, is reference to the end' estate . owned by the County, the power of thoCuset of Quarter lies. skim is limited to the a of the proposed dadinios of the Cesaishe, pu In ti lls lt=il e : g or piementsf the sad is to, aseedm with that of the Qruad Jury, the kites being equity perneineut, with that of the Court. If say power of order*, the Court room in be °posed fora purpose Ober than holding Court, is hereby ceatiereid epos the Court. to is ups the Goad Jury, which I think, will not be alleged. With these views of the law, f am of opisioa that the CA la so pop; to order the Court room to be kmlP*7 1 1 . 1 * purpose than for holding eft as me n the maned =stole StaWfor the Comenhisionere to slow the us of the Court Howe oeseekmally for meth* et the y ele of the County, on matters of salmi interest. I think, the ister dlecretion, thismight be done here, oetwithitandheet the prohibition contained is the weds memo ether," as used be deliaieg tiw eltileets fir width the Qui& staters held tie goggle beildisgs ;. %would be, however, spinet ire strict letter of the law, end suldeetZte personal i tipsmitillity for IVO&O as its use fore elan improper wpm, hidiet taept for wiemistaentor .01E0. These ocesequiliess appear pert we to, be eoa eine.e of the pelt's., that you as Commis sioners baye tbileole pima. over the Court Bosse and Court loos, exempt while the Court is actually is I sosser is =M' * short time the borders of • •• • and bier the math emperminesset .-• • at keit WOO mused men, under esappienoed leaders. It is un derstood they inn be invitedly the James Government to 4 o r ta rt, should it become =.to his Gorerament per exat4uss I by this report that there has been secre t maderitanding be tween the t of Azores and the leedereof the colonisation scheme. It is Gen. Walker will meet them the.Parifie side with a-large party in mien 41 the northern States of Ifev-40.%. prolpbbillenora or Chibrosium. A Tumor oiniiiiiintataif &end 3Thr occurred recently in Maim comity, Texas. A young man named Jordan seduced the daughter ofa ridow lady living in his neigh borhood about six months ago, andtce the entreat* of bet mother and the ri bors, reflised b make her his wife. e, ciahur t eu however,. lived iri her in the relation of a husband , tion wits commenced agates! him, the remained obdurate, and in of law, honor and public, opinion,detdm• ,ed that he would live and act as beplessittl. On the 17th °flag month he was aseassitated within half a mile of his dwelling. Nine distinct duo were beard, and be was soon afterwards found lying in the rood, coveted with blood and perfectly riddled with ride balls and buck-• ' , shot. It was nothing more nor less than a ease of lynching, perdirmed in rather a more suddlin and summary manner than usual, and th ews the impulairintanner ,of, the Texan people, and how ready they are , to wreak diadly vengeance for their own and otherewrongs. All inqilest was held over the Wine, but no clue *the perpetra-- tom a the murder was either obtained or bathed. i AN Anorericensvecilyirnici.—licarthe Bud son, who was (shamed with- having caused the death la young damns named Hannah Jane Tappan, on te e 7th of Mock last, in Philadelpida, by an attempt' to produce an abortion dpon her, was, on , litondity, tried and convicted of warier in the seCond degree. The evidence was the same as that elicited before, the Coronet's jury, and established the fact that **death at Miss Toppitt ear produced by *Armen* in the hands of a ignorant of their use. Judge sentenced the seemed to seven years' imixismaient in the &Mem Penitendiwy. Thin heavy rentanoe was impelled, the J udge from plated, with a view to deter othersfollowing the' nefarious huaineas in which the had been engaged. Pu PMA Tun livesvo.-4 letter la now before tw from Nelesidta Qty. A 28, which inweeihst Pewelteisre from the repotted "mines:* in gooks will the nemHthere lino ipge—thet twiny are and some petishing on the p ' Be sse l.,..leinkteturzeocl emigrants w oars back a a crowd of tlem=ale7ptin7ed men seogllit two "Pike% Peak kitterirritere at Ithe poorllron, and thane, for hewing eo y h them. Other tweet accounts frota "the land of gold," ere equidly dimoureling end there no longer way doubt of th*Wweelly_hum. bug oharaoterofthePlite'sPeelt and MEI* Crook goklrepartierreet. A Nov Ointram—A ,tOrrettl . wu recent peak s Chinese siMat and vthoe ~err4Ml~' sa slew pad US SI CNN 001 Itt about tsai r &arida of.os• vialit, b• woul bad d slit la II lt %rabbit* John's men, ithn. rg aoal this On 4,%. oriir . , „ Sot cabal o*4 • Icor Alin& . ). 1 1;1 y. alte had ao diqr **a maysiukuist,) IS MI ==l CHAS. W. 131.1110 aphides. Pal samara zees mention that in be coitoestrated on Ws see by ea menthol Mr. Brow" WINN at go Q & etisair Oak kall beek4oll4lll tilat mak s ad calmed to the . Sua AWOL ; , $B6 ml Comsat Ahrovhir, aye tiers hoe boos s •amber of L this vicinity datebq she pant tan yoked W. bsh ostapod oath* down lids wir, toieltiovo: . • fitnadocoisi lass node the sppess mot lindbio—vo oroft the i3onfh; sad onn one of her - Npandlor ins iridolt oven do not ob .lll . air LIM* leat was Wks by a mid dog es Bata oley last Is ' The porties--bit tee was posepay est out, and the mend cam taisul. Ai yet as onward volitional bays made their monsoon The wilier of tbeilierneeut Riportss wants ib eihotkiai pedivele-ie beer Wi*MR week or two loam avileee ir will gfretkent s greeter With of rope." le tbe Nike/going toles, kimseitt Godey for Jane hao pone to Mat The table ofoontentils more varied than towel, aid newt to a nioe young awn, it to the best Lady's eampanios we onn thhtk aE Its plates of Taddossaad isstraetioa is needle-work are worth most than the subserlition. Or U. /Wan= WAID4III, of Millareek township, was thrown from $ wagon sear his Saw Mill in that township on Friday .of last week, and so severely injured that he died the following ?uneasy. mfr. The foandstkra of Mews. Clemens & Caagbey's and Grey & Farrar's saw building is Proltregasi lithely. It will be tie largest building in the eity--being BSttieet on tie PO lie Square, and extending bast Mb feet to Fifth street. 17p..at the Wool Sistenaillgt. the other day some of the curious wanted to•know when we propciik to ilps up." Upon miens delib eration we hate concludednot to ~g o up" until they.* goes. and - thew we, intend to cumin four years. arse think that will be In 1860, but we don't believe the “oppoeition" gas works will be abe to manufacture enough gas to raise is by that time. The Madelokla drys has re sumed its old position as as evening paper, sad been considerably esdarged. The - Arose is one of the best of our exchanges, and: slide foot Its political eharacter sea reliable Dona crstic jowled, is easarpseeed as a ser,- Para'. lar The authorities of the boreosAof Mead: Alio ars priming to pave one of their pen- • • afresh--Water -w ith stone. Amulet • ewe swam ....-Limg-p ur p owin fuit - ob the ground, and it expects workmen to do the work will be soon cos the ground. This shows enterprise and public , spirit; but are our city authorities doing anything of the kind ? Hu the - project of paving State street been abandoned? Are we to Bounder through the mud for anoth er twelve months, with no prospect timid of afar getting out ? Shame to let the little bars ugh of Meadville, without a railroad, take the lead of the city of Erie with her railresd sys tem approaching completion. As a part of the history.of Pur county, we publish to-day a card from the Conunission ere, sad the legal opinion of their' attorneys, Messrs. Irst.so and &sem, upon the ques thin of right which has arisen between them &adjudge GAZJILUIIt. The question at issue, we apprehend, is purely a legal one, and the proper steps have been taken to test it as seek— MOe no newspaper opinion of which is right or whirls is Wrong is called for. Al to the pol icy of opening the Court Rouse for other than. Court purposes, the position of this paper was stated long ago, and was pinto it. In that &Odes we still remain. We are aware there are many 'who think itit use should be granted upon all proper oecaskuts to the two political p&rties to hold contentions and publib most in.-but it mew to us that if this is done, these is so poiat ie stop; and heat* we are rebily glad the clizestion has now assumed a dispel that will 10s, all piffles to a buil de able., sell that me shall know in due dine by a decree of the Court just what course win be adopted in fame I lifr The balotin ascension on Wednesday was a pert* success, and was witnessed by thimmadc of delighted speetators. The day was a grand ase, warm sad spring like, with a ; ed briers blowing southward. Al preeise ly dm& deleoh, Mr. 7. 4 11111, the assonant, no dule en Was ready, when Mr. B. A. 11 Int, of this 'city, who bad made arrange to soossapaay him. stepped into the has- It* ad at a quarter past three the eords were ear, sad the ponderous globe with its living Wight darted up; up, and sailed of over the ei4to the !oath. ; When about mid-way to o author surreat of air etruck, thou, and this seam wwarhanged north-oast, back over Oily, and out over the lake. After they got o the take their progress was very slow, w the to etatoludiag that he would be Ale to meek the Canada shore till loas 1 dark, and add Sot relishing the idea of a alf/i aptstho miter, be palled the yalverope, mnignica she ' settled down upon the water, Mill Slowly . sy out of sight behind the Plikaimik, ___. • t its meantime the Stowe Tug, * Wilussit, IsusiSrod up sad got under wey, vaisl4 d c istillut thee . the air and water toy loiaot# lad 10 the koot of State street. isiliShilitia, ~ ,usto iv that everybody wig , if ear ipsad HAMM who tiOsind the , makes little istnethiag ow" Irk vs finunes be will be delighted, Teo, Mit *VW ifti: ' i i r• - •• !,•.-• • :.: 1. I :.' '', '.l. ,741,10 p. .I , Knee Iseide kir* a very ; le tike epilog ,et nose. ehigodf*, et rubbish sad Ea de ka lot theirtsek mile to the 61 44illtik lietom thsiodd aa ,-' 4 1i0vimad a .es.* riag wd, owitandy -loft oltee-lsod sheet teem the ether "`WiailA lees" et *a • 4welliage timithad* fit,maraws.. *ono Are - a edamt e*U . wrediskagelowi :who will their authoeselbelblif thoy.mpeaeoliweemi of their neighbor, =lE=l Z l / 1 41111 riOX .-~• •, 1 here lbrthe put week A bras atit*her cases are down for trial, but the business jeltev seeds very slowly. The moot hapeetent snjsa are the Railroad Bead suits, fa width Beaver, Butler, Lawebies' tratijbarthrd eeneeles, aid the Ages of Pittsburg sod cep trued. The Butler atniaty case was tried hat week, awl resulted la s tardier. agstest the county for interest es her. barb_ The kiry fouled spinet the eeunty for the interest .A per aut. of the hue of the boat--that *mg the market price of the bonds et the doe: of their male. The verdict, bower, amiable& certain ponditiona, and the court reserved aorta points, which will be raterred the Sapreine Court of the United &Ms. M . rot of th e Legislature suthorMug Bailer ostatty I. attir scribe to the North Waken &Breed was pretty erverelY eriticieed by tb•uouneel halite derense, and by the court. Speaking of the bonoithog maser by which It was drive Judge Chose re. marked that if he had ten eons he would stake lawyers of nine of Una, sad a legislator of the tenth to furnish bushsees for the others*. Re gave legislators a general raking fee their Igsvareses, earelenness, or intentional trickery_ in the framing fie laws. The rittsburg Railroad Bond case is OM before the Court, and has occupied three days already. Judge Swam and R. it. Brarron, Esq., are counsel for the bondholders, and, TnowAs Wits4Ams, Iraq, coaducts the demos it has been a hotly contested case from (hells ginning, and it is amusing to witness the am ner in whisk ins tbsandara's mann at the court disems questions of law. Judge 0 expsonfir the -soot petal limlopeadsmoe the decisions ef Beets Court* in Sallee cause, sad assumes to tient the Ceausty Bowies sow' mercial paper =Wet to the brws and usages of trade, - without regarding the conditiens upon which they were issued, =law clearly ezprese ed on the flee of the Bonds. WILLIAMS pro tests against this view of the court sad made a very ingenious and able argument in del'eneiof Ids position, contending that the court has no right tedisregard established presidents sad common usages in such cases. He had a long contest with the court yesterday in regard in 01. 1 01 10 1 .114 P& .L.".. 1 54% I Lacs ast—sseas matte) but was overruled. The court via de , termined, and Wn.i.teste was eloquent and de fiant, but the Judge had his own way, as usual. The trial is still progressing but will probably close to-day. The Crtwford county caaecomes nest is order on the list. STASTOK, FARRILLY and Swam* are counsel for the Bondholders, and B. New ros Perris, Esq., for the county. The Bond holders are eoalklent of winning, and the other aide does not umnifeat any fears of loosing. It is quite likely that this, with all the other Bond cones, will be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United State.l The unions Bondlsuits involve in the aggre gate considerably over a million of dollars, and the final decision is looked to with the deepest interest by thousands of to payers. Crawford county has been more fortunate than any of the others, having Issued only about $OO,OOO of bends. The present snit against the latter email is brought by Gamuts V. Holman tar the interest on some $12,000 of Or bonds which he holds. Business is Anita brisk here, and the ether! today presents an animated some. Several steamboats are discharging their cargoes and odrers loading, and Water street presents the appearance of a vast out.door warehouse, aura with workmen and carts of every description. Ilexes of glass and packages of dry goods, barrels et- salt and hogsheads of sugar, bales. of cotton, kegs of nails, pig metal, stoves, iron, sad hundreds of other articles, are beeped up In great profusion all *long the wharf. • The bulls of the stednsere which were de stroyed by ire some days since have not been removed. Ten fine steamboats valued at near $BO,OOO were burned In less than half an hour. The char:id sad blackened wrecks oceopy a largo space st • the landing. and their removal will be attended with heavy expense and labor. This fire was the most destructive to the ship ping that has ever occurred here: The number of visitors to the city is new wally large for this season of the year. The hotels are pretty well crowded. The Mason gahela House has several hundred guests. This splendid hotel is certainly not excelled by any in . the Union do' its arreagentints to provide for the confect of visitors,. In all its depart meats it. is admirably conducted, sad 1* de serves the liberal patromege extekilvd ink by an appreciative public. M.. A man wbo has been, reralted Maw ads foe Larder, to. eonleand to rehbodoe to tha.aaliOUlSl of SAW I-.-sei.epaingothinstiat dike pureee's cam *nits eleanterlhOldra when lying it the *MO to Delitio; the ens 'Won on this occasion being $2,810. The rob bery was *drooled by Me dressing himself' as a Meal* and peening Ithneelt 441' as the wife of the each oetke beat. inn Ili; nisbed him by a preetitato tawledilietllll4liwo ia that city, tor** Wilibt$11•10114bo rae of them. A Coma or oz.* islhuituas."—The arum mars tiH thst GM. Ooeumbbid ßJsu sad tumble light oaths Qd 14 irttlt Mary T. Dtputtut,is the issustrw's room et the Prortheli Ihmk in Lexington, 4 , Otmemd Cumbspludshml his satsgssdit merely. ; Alts Gametal is 72 yews round , Ammo is one 004 Ms et dm age WO '7O should bow bsatiithlitio bmdss afteasidmis likes soups of trader daint ta Chaataspo' • sasatr . adiertlass "auk lad ths Meow Flea I*aay qusatity et Damak#o47 Weems,* &hi la the reams'llaNtliimiiiitlak lad ta giaspallahliahmaa ettha Baal:irk fikmagaillhr tlikikataa,'n has litailltiair Mis. %WOO& toak am* a• dipswinr ..ftwon" inwd lam Ida aid& I MiP,l*.k7 i mina Sim., Kay 17, KIK ggg Psorniroirs—Thu Pork market Is heavy and lowor—eseopt for Oise scow. • Saks of 6,800 bbis at 417 620418 26 fbr nest; $l9 00 for • was; sad $l6 501g15 75 for prime. Beef- is aria. Woo of 1,100 Mils at $7 0 0 61 7 60 for country prime; $9 0069 76 ler country mess; $l3 09015 CO for ropsolord Chicago mow and 116000.17 00 for extratnoos. 13attoet quiet. Bales 100 Ws shear Blear smoked aides fbr *MOM* at 180. Bat MOW are toss lineyest. Woo of 860 packages at 7W Tae fir er, anted sieseldsei; and WO for kW*. Lard win tta6 Um. Was of 800 Ws at 1 41 .7. 1210 ; sad 1,000 kegs at 12g.ic Ikfittnti bail*. asks at 180.908 for State PA 'Wm. Clown dun at 1449/0„ leopard* A. cowl. . Bviesiao, lisw 20, 1869 . The maim he nor hal sad lese7, end pekoe 25017ie hirer. Oahe 1,600 bbls. $71%7 26 he o=kra Skis, he, nod 'data wheal; $7 me: 4o he , owe Okla, Michi. gam mod Wham; $7 76401 MI he double es tree. Market atom doll Wheat au and him. Oak .10,000 fa& mimed winter rttin eft ell pin Loran ; aad 4.00 boa Moose *tug at 12k. Corn quiet. Ode , 4.00 keit ot WO sleet Oats le hie wand pi mai* eelier.f Wee 41,000 leek Wiii- Oseehi et 56.57 e. awls vaeosoged, Mas ker gedet sad seeeing et 220. • areent oink Ulan wsas Tomboy to • 111111, shi bhopood obtains. Drees his santlanno, and le will be more 11114, t carry hiaossif in gmtlanardy oaner. Let him dram a clown. lon_ meybe Viotti lure bOill have 11114) a bbokiel. Dm. and address have la doer embeetion deka mem people israOsia. bark le a philosopher. MIMI HOINIL - thin?-An, wa ft .ll, .sollMitioni, Ambits, Oar Maim -1::L. NW; ' boa Moot mom ea /wow tiiiiipsil ie_ tow grist with Or trite iir anotbor mos. Ho Ow hanboad tam. Aka to tab lie Oa el* 4th. 10104101 illi m too about to e.g IhilthWillk sot • Math amid be an :=l=ldaell be dese. be amend witkoly boo No Way with =II lhieras maim bylere. J. N. leßreee 4 , jos Togli c to lhommAi ; Ptifibg e O. G. Nom %me WOW lillobenso of O. 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B, purports to be the record of searsernseiserr mairoad isersorisse received by a railidisat of Jormaless dada,/ the throe of oar Larl'a mialsegy. Tire earaor r eap passe Ada., a Janos at dlessadria, to write letters to bar Wm seisenimg the imprint Nash of ellaigieldsme sat best of all history ft hp rislisat• prsated e sod the method is pica- Weil limarriagotaws, bat thalstiontresspoai is bask to thew mats, mad oar oyes sees to lash es those worillartal segos& The goeper resold is hiddrally istirsrovei, sad imagiu tiro bag •Ma rirmaatird, lost stir venture rashly rat holy ogereat with task tilt wait trawl& truth la the tut; vigils her heads were *Eft *tam asiverthy at a gaersd inscrip ties. Ironed set margarita our bumble op. prong of all this is isseritod by a roverestirl foray, bat the vivid portray of truthful ocean west osammaddirrvolagss. Both these volumes ere grabs( rapidly. Hoar or Assooorri asn Boum or Pox ; 0. G. Now, No. 489 Chesimai street, Fitilo doiphis. This is a estleetiom of over eats thoadsed of thassest laughable arytags mad Jokes of cel ebrated wits mad humorists. In he compilation the publisher has evinced remarkable good taste. We have looked through it pretty thor oughly, sad while we dad away things weber/ MPS lad" together with sack that is mew to us, we think the orstapasr has sueeembid in his desiga of maldagarbeek that midis its 'contents will rakes may a good Warty bads, there is rotiis~&kit Awoke to good taste, good man nsrahtim morals. We think there is a good 46•1 af philosophy is the thsery that a good be sty laugh is better than a dose of physic, Lad Noce seerytiskag that is salealated to pro mote is to be •4amewled—ospocially if it is done in a rained sad gentlemanly way. Coarsens is mirth, as is everything ales, should be aroideJ A good joke is seas the lees a joke twee/ it is clothed% %roved language, while genuine wit need sot be lass felt because it doe,' ad smell of the pot house. for • long ride OD railroad, or a warm day at house with little do, sad lees to think about. the Bistimet of Pot Inane acapitat emajausoa. it anybody mum to lanai a dollar, end get more than the worth of their money back in fun, besides a hand some gift, we refer them to Evess ' advertise-, lama in another column. I The Buffalo Repastlee tells of a gentle man who had just arrived in the ran on hte way to New York, from Bt. Louis, where be had purchased, MUM five or tau days since, ten thasmand barrels of Bear, to be shipped through to IFa► York, via Albany. He had contracted the freight through from Bt. Louis to New York by railroad and river navigation, for fire shillings &barrel. As Dour has soddenly taken an upward tendency, and is still Inclined the same way, it can readily be surmised that this operator has made a nice little tortoise. t" f1k:4:41 141 New Yeas., May 19 nova—The Four market is dull and unset tled; prices are 16®250 per barrel lower.— Salem of 7, 2 200 lbs ; at $6 9006 90 ter super- Ise State ; $7 0007 40 for stars State; $5 90 @6 80 for maxim to good superfule Western, $7 00®7 60 for common to good extra Western; and $7 60(7 76' ter common to good estra round hoopectOlakt. Canadian Flour still nom inally quoted at $7 5008 76 for common to choice extras. Rye flower—s 4 76@6 50. Gahm—Tie market for Wheat is heavy cad 6tgi6o lower. Small sales at 17000760 for winter and Western ; and 15601680 for 'un souid do. Rye, 9,400 bash at 10001Ctir. Corn market lower. Bales et 23,000 bush at 92@930 for mixed Wasters; 970 for round 'fol low; and 98e Ibr yellow Jersey. Oats dull and lower. • r;=:2l