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MARCH C-1851.
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fa r l, •.*To ItheAMiigs of Pefinsyltraimitt.
r .J. 7OII 9MITIONITEItTIODI Will lie held in the
Ifilfilibeaster.On UESDAY. Juno 2441.1851.
f , ... thw'ptiti*a_tif eating Candidates for the afli
ciffirlAntitthor ' il'Cinal Canunistioner, and also
1 91r:4111.1gettort Supreme Court. •
'f„...„...:' .''' ,- -- . r. , !'—ligairßY.lt. FULLER; Clen.
ygAilgEltutigeat, , a Samuel Inienamy,
141,01iiiit" . /ria,l„ . - _. l o,..Thompkg on Jones, al
nti::;$11( Slinging, ~. .`f 'Samuel B..Tharnas,
tiaittiej Bell, : • ' :.,*"J'ohn S. Brown,
'4 , tbatt,ol Ellantlier, 'T. Taylor Worth.
71 '61;3, Robinson', Alexander E. Brown,
._N Apien E. Preston,, William' Baker,
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SIT Cechran Win . ltl. Watts,
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il!", 0fitu . " 0 44.. . - James Clerk, ,•.
r 4; A. Earthman, Sherman D. Phelps,
:,,;eiorge Cress, • _Edwin C Wilson, -
\ , aki.inney,,,,-, ,Jahn, Allison.
4 -i• O. Lonnits, Daniel M'Cordy,
- I. o4 ; Eaustriap, , George Meagan,
Willim7Eyos, . - Alexander. IL If Clare,
I. l ,;l•iit C. eifile, Francis Jordan.
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', IV ' tit Will,li Been bl , the call of the State Central
. '; ' . l4Ciiifitnittektik the 24th of June has been fixed
lill,,,' —. :4iii . : Sta ke Conventual, which is to be held
kg e Oils year at Lancaster.
4 - iWe pr'esurne that tliere is no question about the
i ,,, Eli . 40 *,,,,,,, of purpreseneable and worthy Gover•
4. ~.. ;',11 , 10014. 2 1A11 2 r. JOINSTON for a re-election, as no
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, - 1,,,Re -else seems, to be even thought of by the Whigs,
41÷4filiiiii • Wocknow. We trust he will be nominat
r- IV < tili'in:citintation and supported with that zeal
1 ilii . •" ." • ' .
Li t'Atiunanttnity which he so emineutly deserves, if
['o I.4irwilling tosun again.
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.r. O . r *X..tut.int, -we see it stated is moselikely
fili. 1 1ra ,, ,e, - (op Loeofoco nominatimr-for next Governor.
tA: \':: f elin . ew„iiim in the session of 184-7 as the Sena
,'" 4 . 1 1 ; t , rijirons-Clearfteld. But he was suceeded the next
! . ' Ante?". by our present Whig Governor, who came
i '''':•-iaSinator from Armstrong in the same district.-
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t. , i., -' Gov.. Johnston was considered an over inatch
' 1,4 .: W - Bigler..in the Senatorial district, so we presume
41- Lol'will;prove in the State.
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r iacat. Gx•baciit V. Lawasites of Washington is
regoramended in the papers from the Western por
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tfain of the State fora nomination by the Whigs
v'..f. i I'r Canal Caumissioner. No better selection could
rd. latiladelfithe nomination is to Le 'made, from that
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action of the State. We knew him well ,as a
11, I:eintesentative from Washington county in the
V' -,-Lion of '47, since which he has been a Senator
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1.1. 0 . •pututhat district. He is a son of the late Hon
rXJojeph Lawrence who for many years was Speak
fs V . r of tha,Hottse at Harrisburg, and at the time of
1, 1; - : / ii, death was a Whig member of Congress from
tt4 'Xiishingttit county. He was one of our ablest and
f: 4 • • -
81 - 1 1 t-A. of public men, and the son is a "chip of the
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r:I. 4.21d0ck. "
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6 P. .
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v.., , A Premium for Maple Sugar.
- i ',._. The times having gone by when the printer was
3 - .43: 4 ~ +e bountifully supplied with Maple Sugar by some
A' l . , .. t his subscribers, we are induced to gratify the ta
il' t s t.zial favoritism of our woman for the article, to
4 • - ',:. l i. - as a premium fur the first 12 pounds of goal
S: v. ' 'aple tinier brought, one year's advance subscrip
a .1) for -the Register, (or a proportionate` amount
- 74 ..1 AI accounts,) and for the first gallon of new
4. 9
i .., 4 a ises brought, one dollar on account. We will
ffi t . 4erwards allow at the rate of ten cents a pound
e l l .1 I.' grood, new sugar, or seventy-five cents for molas
*l - (... till :further notice. We speak thus early in the
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give ..,-:rtt te i competitors a chance to try for the
t i iriniinen. . •
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' - -. : For the World's Pair.
-! I ' lame bodY bas left in our office , a model of a
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einus machine accompanied by a slip of paper
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t i f .- tainting the following indorsement or explanation
I'o ,_ r Kits intended use :
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' ' Chapman —Please have this coili
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1,4 •.W W. • , Sir- -
it•-st, • , machine sent to the World's Fair and entered ,
kr , ..,.' , , she Premium Your dispatch bearer may en er
r : l ' . as a Pennsylvania invention,for the complete m
' • • ..rd of Locofoism with Abolitionism."
-.,. '‘yelrere at a loss at first to discover its sip
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~.,, ' .4.•. in to the use intended, as we are not skilli*l in
t , 4.o.bitric.' aeies of such kind , of machinery, bj we
t'' • 4 .•Alially; led to the conclusion that theSC - ve huge
I , tti:p?exiii that rise and Pall successively by the turn
* kairr the machinery, in it kind of trip hammer
.e..
..4.4.:10n; are intended to pound the crude masses to
, _.l4PeitOgennated into a soft pulp, (thumping out all
.- ';, ( rOiiieleatious 'scruples they may contain,) after
‘,l„..;ch the composition passes undel..-
f, • . , f t machine and is thoroughly worked over and
, , :;. - r6ii' tuners would work cloth, or something
I ' :tlt F;..iiiArig, hides in st„Tannery, perhaps.
I I:Yiainuld think likely this " yankee notion "was
',A; inCoenecticut pretty successfully last year,
.. s .-1 !resume ironp of the machines had been on
1 4 1.;, - ;),:glikilesaigeetto lately it might haveassisted
i- re.tecting an election of a U. S. Senator there be
!' ••;;,..; , 3 thii• time, the' they. could not quite effect it
4 V"ll4he tools they made a Governor with.
•' 1 ,a"""rl,, se whole machiniiis turned With a hand
.e, ti
one man, to show that it is intended to
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be
Vistictient, 'to the one man power. hr that the
1 4;','"ZOISigi by repianmending it to favor in Europe!
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- .. ,„7„ . „mit meems by the census returns of the •Uni
- -ri,l4t*sisitailar Ili received. that Pennsylvaeia is
ig ••• 71:. -- ,00 - # !tstiki the Union, notwithstanding
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?I# l * ll 4.44,:tted that Ohio was gaining so
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, sp 4 oo#l l o.. ) '" ber In.
_short the•Keyetime has
:44Wiiii*ilie1011iedidillIAlepreseotative •in Congress,
•-""',::::iig bel,2sinstestl: of 24, b y the census law
ir. ,, i1 1 '4 11 4• l eeefe r e , iitk 2 i- . New York.
4iaSArPovios
census, on ill
- 4" ' *citielly.Stietareoe or - two members, her
,:i7,0 Atealiiiiiii iitit heePne - iverhh - tbe 4mA(
-=, tr iiv - iiii;-;Virtioia, SonoirlyAalle4 thiinOtAr .of
-.''j 4 .r_lkoilx.p4latumo..auw,lorw
_i4o,4•,,ust that:: .. .-: : ,;•--
,',.•;M clf."!:i 4 . reVf• •,,•:••••_
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1 ''' 1,1 0• 1144- ilt er 'l l " ll e 'e—•.* or Pula* -
1, - ' l lol4.*.o.t4iiiifoiloY:#_o ,l ,4 4i, : ,60 , 84 ,
~ :54Afailetfossaaalquifoixt&
, :: - . .f,.....o.4 . ,ship .. ,ogurperinweitoslares, se wow
,i-: tor - jiiiiipirsmition it:iiii , Vaison.*-Thete:ium
; .:4 / 6 %thileshiat*** ll friasLitilefie4ritztO the'
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. pik , -iirligrevitiptirtarliiiwatillsiiigiViiir
1164,11114.70(iflOirlallf Viril**
` , :i.i)':;:itt)o* f of Orshijoimi . "110.114- . -- ..,.' ---,,„ i'i.-
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At as gtOn, ,-..-, ...
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he 1 0- 10 . i . 011; : Itim tile Congretisional mama*
-sy of the Sussex itister,?,. :- ' • •, -
fn tit!! St, Iliondai the !4th th
. Chettp
Postage - BiSris 'derided, according tatliWprofs
!lOU of Mr
Tr :..k; and ordered - to be engrossed,
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but net passed,'se •eral gentlemen feeling the need
of 'speaking or it. The nruendoients •provide for
half-osoce . lette,rs. pre•paid, three cents; unpaid.
five cents; ovr,three thousand miles, double those
rates i and a gra i dusted tariff for newspapers of so
much ;per quatiter, according tiareqoency of pub.
licationatid - .distance. The Senate spent the rest
of the day in t4k upon the President's Fugitive
Sltive Message l . ,
The House devoted Monday to the Appropriai
tion RillS, and g u t through with • about two-thirds of
the game: Anattempt was made by Mr. Phenix
to add to the appropriation -for the Mint a provis
ion that if, within the next year, the New York
CurPoration idioitld s furnish gratis to the Govern
ment the prem4es necessary for-a Mint, the duty
•of tbe Secretaitrof the Treamry should be to re,
toe the Mintl trim Philadelphia to that City.—
This wroLdecidd out of order.
In the !Senate, on Tit , rsday, the House River &
Harbor bill was reported without the amendment.
TheiCalifornialputies bill was passed, with an
aniendrnant t giVing the new State f--300,000 out of
die. duties collected while she was a Territory.
This wlll be ipite a help to her prematurely di
lapitqed,finanSes,
In i the House, on Tuesday, there was a morning
talk about Dryi Docks, ending in nothitig. The
Civil and Diphitnatie Appoiriation bill was then
taken up. and several attempts. at Tariff Amend
ment made and defeated as nut of order.
When- was eVer a movement for Reform or Pub.
lic 'good in, order :I,
The Cheap Postage bill, as amended, pant d the
Senate on Wednesday. by a Vote of 39 to 15. The
extending pensions to the widows of Revolutionary
soldiers . was Vented. That granting the right of
wil:s - : fur a-teleOph to the Pacific was engrossed.
The bill limiting' the liabilities of ship owners was
also pasted, as Was the Joint Resolution to send a
nitiunal vessel to bring Kosolith to this -.country.
In the House, on Wednesday, a piquant and in
teiasting debate took place between Messrs. Ash
anti) and Alleivtheformer repeating his assertion,
'that Daniel Webster the present Secretarfof State
before taknig 'office, asked and received a donation
of e 50,000 from certain bankers and commercial
gentlemen itt New York and Boston. To this Mr.
Ashmun oppastd a sharp and positive rejoinder,
denying and denouneing the charge as shameful.
and Mr. Allen as utterly outrageous and inconsis
tent in bringing! it forward.' 3lr. Allen, however,
persisted in the accusation. After this was, over,
it
the Mexican Indemnity dil was passed, and the
Army 4.pprOpriation ill taken up. This also was
The occasion of a rather keen speech from Mr. Gid
dings. No vote; was had on the bill. ' 1
On Thursday the 27th the Situate passed the bill ,
for the better priaection of pritCntees. The Naval
Pension bill Was; also diussed,and finally passed
and several ?the bills were discussed and laid on
the table. The Rouse had the Army _Appropria
tion bill under ctinsideration in' Committee of the
whole, and spent the chiefly in discussing vari
ous amendtnents.
On Friday the; 28th the Senate spent most of,its
session in debatkg and offering ameudments to the
esolutioa mspeitirg military, bounty land, and a
bill to curtail the mileage eompen,ation for the
Senators, which !was finally laid on the table. The
House bad undeecolisideration the joint resolution
to pay old Father Richie the extra compensation
he has been whitiing for. fur some time, on account
of his having bid off the public printing at too low
a rate to live bi ts The Army appropriation was
also taken up, pcussed and finally pissed. •
On Saturday the Ist first_, the session was contin
ued till after midnight. The House passed the ap
propriation bills.' The Senate was engaged on the
-Army and Navy - and other bills: The Cheap Post
age bill was neatly get through the Mouse very
much as it ca.melfrotn the Senate. The River and
Harbor btllhas been fought off hitherto, seas
• fought through is day, its opponents in the Sen
ate though in the minority, being determined on .
defeating it by btrering amentlments,talking aiainSt,
time and calling the yeas and nays. Messrs. 'Fur;
ney, Downs, Jeff Davis and Butler were leading
assailants. They were answered by les.srs. John
Davis, Ewing, and colliers ; but especially by " Old
HaL,". with unite-Passed ability and vigor. Mr.
Clay distinctly charged the enemy vilith a conspir
acy to talk did' hill to death. Gen. Cam spoke in
favor of the bill, but voted with its enemies for the
fatal amendment;, for the improvement of Tennes
see river, to be eXtentled below a certain point,
whiCh was adopied by a vote, of i 7 to 23. The
Senate adjourned with tlir bill I?efore it as the first
business fur. Monday- morning, and as father Ritch
ie's bill is behind it there was bbpes of its passage.
AR:thO Steanaaldp pretjecis were killed except one,
and:mat-Wag a selmi-mcnitidy Mail instead of the
-resent mondilylone, from Panama to San'Fran
einem •
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dt..ost or CONGIIESS. •
On MOVSy the last day of the session, the Sen
ate again wasted nearly the u hole day in fighting
off -a final vote tin the Haver and Harbor bilL They
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suspended the le long e ()ugh to concur in the
dust slight ame n meats tua is , by the House to the
Cheap ,Postage yd. So that has finally passed.—
Thtilcotise p assed the Navy AppmPriltion and
iti
other bills from . Senate, : bat refused to suspekid
the rultis to . tak ! up. the 'much .6p:elation bill.
and prepared to- 'djourn at id-night if the Senate
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A ser i tous,quar took lace butween.-Xessrs..
.Cling mint and , tinkle.); embers; of. the ; Souse
L from S.Paqina,ion Mori blingman came along
by Stanley'ilaeand spok : to lust. -Stanley re
plied, when Olinf o nian sp ' -
over-41'10.de* and
erasbe4 iitaiii€l7 , the r: Ifeititieis interfered
, . sepoiteililasu, bat Ikg tart fist' notice 4rassts , .,
~ , #.4-*/thoi:str.sir - b, the gesse.. A sissicUy,rsit is
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Things at' linskishitg. -
.Illitacmg the most prominent OxiinitnOs — Si Hs!!
risburg lately are the visit of Gent Houston tothat
and the Legislative .excurson to , Brildinisee.
Tha renowned fern of Tetra was invitiid to
'milks the visitty the Locofoco members . Of the
Legislature and other prominent men of the,party;
come of whom doubtless intended it as a means of
mulkiog a demonstration in favor ,of the General
1014 thr} Presidency, while _others, and evecially the
friends of Buchanan reluctantly joined in the invi
tation. fearing probably that if Houston shOuld be
the thvored man they would be unhorsed of psipu
larinfluence if they should show any opposition to
this proposed visitation. These are said to have
been anything but comfortable under this constrain
ed act of courtesy. In the evening the General
delivered an address to a large crowd of ladies Ind
gehtlemen, the main subject of which wai the ear
ly history, the revolutionary Struggle, and present
flourishing condition tsf Teems.: He is said to have
acquitted himself very creditably in this speech.
By invitation of some of the ladies of Harrisburg,
the General also delivered a Temperance Lecture
while there, at a Bert of Pair fur the benefit atone
of the Churches of the place.
By ; i nvitation of the Railroad Companies and
the authcr.ties of Baltimore, the members of
both houses of our Legislature took a trip to Bal
timore, pn Friday where the were sumptuously
treated to a public entertainment at the lutaw
House, the Mayor of the city presiding at the sup
per. The whole party proceeded to Washington
on Saturday, (to witness some of the closing scenes
of Congress probably) and were to return to Har
risburg on Monday. The Governor did not accom
pany them.
In House of Representatives on-Monday there2,t,
a bill to compel the Portsmouth and Lanossiiir t
Railroad company to fence their road was underi
consideration, when on motion of Mr. Kunkel to
refer the same to a select committee together with
a similar refrence of the N. Y. Erie Railroad
Company a committee was appointed consisting of
Messrs. Kunkel, Haldeman, Linton, Re&how and i
Olewine. •
On Tuesday the 25th the following / joint resole.
tion ineommendationef the Hon. Daniel Webster's
reply to the Prussia Government, was passed by
the Senate. •
ReAdred, That the thanks of this Leghtliitare are
eminently doe to the Hon. Daniel Welhiter; 'and
that they be and are hereby tendered to him for
the very able and patriotic manner, in which he
has vindicated the well established principles of
the Government of the United States, in regard to
its intercourse with Foreign nations, in his letAer to
Chevalier Hulseman,' (large d' Affairs from the
Government of Austria tulle United States, dated
December 1, 1850.:
In the Hottsea bill passed Ist reading M repeal
the 3d and 4th sections of an act passed last ses
sion incorporating a Silver Lake Turnpike Compa-
On Wednesday the 26th among the mass of pe
tition• presented, was one by Mr. Sanderson in the
Senate Tram citizens of this county against the re
moval of the county Seat. A great many ' peti
tions were presented by several Senators in favor
of a Free Banking Law.
. On Thursday the House resolution of thanks td
Hon. Daniel Webster was paiised finally bx the
Senate.
On Friday the House Committees reprfried in
favor of the re-charter of the Easton Bank, aid the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Easton. Both
Houses then adjourned till Monday afternoon after
their return from the Baltimore excursion.
RETZNVE Bosan.—The Board of revenue Com
missioners met and organized iu the Supreme Court
room at Harrisburg last week to equalize and ad
just the standard of valuation for the purpoSes of
taxation throughout the State. Gen. Bickel, the
State Treasurer, presides of course, over the Board,
which consists, as - our readers are doubtless aware.
of one Asseciatt Judge from each of the Judicial
districts of die State.
The Honesdale Deinoctat has she following re
marks upon the-affair at Boston drawing forth a
message from the President
"Some years ago Massachusetts Appointed one
of its most distinguished citizens, the Hon. Mr.
Hoar, its agent, to go to South Carolina and open
a friendly correspondence with the authorities of
that State for the purpose of securing the repeal of
a certain law by which any free - chivied seamen
coterii4 any port in that state were liable to im
prisonment during the stay of their vessel, .and to
'be sold into perpetual slavery in case they should
be unable to pay the expense of their incarceration.
- He was further instructed, id - eme he should be un
successful in securing .a repeal of the law, to 1
com
mence and prosecute a suit in the federal courts, to
test the constitutionality of the law, or rather to
have it set authoritatively set aside, for, of its un-
Fonstitutionality there was no doubt. South Caro.
lina knew the law to be plainly in derogation of
the constitution,- and hence had wade it a high•
crime for any person, either as principal or attor
ney, to bring suit to test thelaw-1.4n pursuance of
his commission Mr. Hoar, accompanied by his wife
and daughterscwent to Charleston. The object of
his visit was known before he got fthere, and imme
diately on his arrival an excitement arose. .A.puh
lic meeting of the citizens was held, at which it
was resolved that the Cummissionei of liassaithu
setts should not be permitted to discharge the du
ty aseigned,to him, and should net be suffered 'to
remain in this state. A committe& . was appointed
to wait upon him and warn hiliito depart under
penalty of summary treatrcwit by mob law. lie
was compelled to depart. not only under 'Circum
stances 'of personal indignity, but pf &wisest insult
to the commonwealth whoie representative be was.
The' federal Executive 10010 'composedly. : —..
The outrage was made the burden,ef no prochuria
lion to the country end dna massage co Coeir es i.
lip. to this hour the general governiaent has taken
no step-to vindicate Iss,iintherrity of the Oman-.
tion in. South Caroline. ,Rot-iimimi-Ainktin
ton is frustrate the 0 • iittr,ittFtigitire
Law
claination and m Fsmible Midis* to lair
cent holy- cannot be: 0 1 !ifietlexcept ie th o case of
rightful revolution ;' but it ±litti*veritielf* not be
and cive > ermliaorluPP(o4)lkkagthri
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Aneotior Retinitimi
But It few weeks sines we recorded the detaih of
Mr. John Green of
... FOUfklin township, :on hle re
turn from California, whkivtook place at the house ,
of hie brother in New Milford within four or five
mil e/80 f home which be was unable to
reach before his death. Last week . *4 announced
the arrival of ALAIANDIR Mccou.nit Jr., from Cal
ifornia, who reached his home between, this place
and New Milford on Monday morning the 24th inst.,
in apparent hea th, though he had buyied his broth
er-in-law, Dr.ennard on an island during their
home voyage. ;But fatal reverse 1 Mr. McCollum
had scarcely got home and rejoiced the hearts of
his family and friends, when what was supposed to
be the mere fatigues of his long journey and the
effects of a cbiLling change of climate, gave 'phce
to the same sort of fatal disease which poor Green
contracted on his way home, and in spite of the
best medical skill, he sank away and expired on
Tuesday evening last, tonly a little more than a
week from his return home.' - How deeply afflict
ing is this sudden and - Melancholy reverse to his
lately gladdened but now heart stricken family; !
None but they can fully realize, though this whole
community of his friends and acquaintances, deep
ly sympathise with them under this afflictive Prove.
idence, to whose mysterious dispensatioks, however
unseaschable and past finding out," all must bow
in bumble submission.
The Cheap Postage Bill Passed.
We congratulate pur subscribers that this Bill
hs,s finally passed in a shape which allows a free
circulation of cou n try papers within the county
;.where published, and requires only fire cents a
lquarter rinsta,ge out of the county, within fifty
miles. Letters pre-paid-this. cents, or fire if not
pre paid, under 300_ miles. _ It is to go into effect
on the Ist of July.
CONCECTICCT.—The Hanford -Courant gives the
result of the town elections in Connecticut showing
that the Whigs hive made large gains, they hav
ing carried. 73 towns entitled to 118 representa
tives in the Legislature, the locos 63 towns enti
tled to 89 Representatives, and 11 towns entitled
to 16 Representatives, are divided. The previous
year the whigs were successful in only 57 towns,
entitled to 92 Representatives, (and this was about
their strength in the last Legislature.)
A WAaNIYG ro SLA.N4II.EAS.—,-A poor girl, earn
ed Martha Stock, recover'd lately, in the Court of
Common' Pleas of Lancaster,. Judge Lewis presid
ing, $l,OOO damages of a man named John Neff, for
slanderous words spoken by him against the chas
tity of the plaintiff. One theusand dollars was all
that was claimed, and the jury brought in a verdict
for the full amount.—Exchange Paper.
MOVING A HOUSE ACROSS CONNECTICUT HIVICIL-
Mr. Lyman Kin,gviey, bridge builder, of this town,
says the Northampton (11a5.4.) Gazette, moved a
two story house, 28 by 38 feet, across the Copnec
tient, at Chiccopee, week before last. This is the
first attempt to move real Male across the Con
necticut, in the memory of the 'oldest inhabitant'
r irA shocking accident occurred from blasting
rocks near Hyde Park, on the North River, lately.
A man of rock of about 1000 pounds weight was
thrown in the air, and falling on a shanty, crushed
in the roof and killed three women who were with
in it.
DrThe Whigs of Union county (one of most
staunch Wh*cou rides in the State) have held a
large and enthusiastic meeting in faVor of ~,Wm
Y lELD SCOTT fur President and Wm. F. Joretsros
fur Governor.
tribe eastern division of the Pennsylvania
Canals have been already opened for navigation,
which is earlier in the season than they were ever,
before opened.
MORE okrr.—We quoted last week from the
Washington correspondent of the Daily News, the
writer's arguments in favor of -our Legirlature re
pealing the act of 1847 relative to kidnapping,and
indorsing the Fugitive Slave law to purchase of
Southern men some favorable action for the Tariff.
Here is more of it :
Could your State Legislature have been induced
to have passed the bill repealing the act .`of 1847.
The prospects of success would have been much
better than they now are. The failure of your
Legislature thus far to spp-ove of the Compromise
Measures, and to endorse the Sentiments of Presi
dent Fillmore's Message is a stumbling block here
in the way of legislation on the subject of the Tar
iff.. Such a course iv just what such men as Rhett
and other Southern ultras desire. They wish to
keep np agitation, and sp long= they can have any
pretext for it, will continue in their ultra course.—
Deprive them of the political capital on which they
now trade, and they will sink into utter insignifi
cance. True Patriotism and sound policy alike de
mand prompt
° action by your Legislature on the
subjects referred to. Without such action, I have
but little hope of anything. favorable king dune
here on the subject of the*Tariff.
A New STATE.—Seine of the New York
editors are talking about erecting a new State t
out of Manhatten Island, (the city) Long
Island, and Staten Island s to be called, legal
ly, the State of
,Manhatten, and popularly,
the State of the Three . Islands. It would
contain at this time-nearly one million of in
habitants. It is a very pretty idea, but they
will not get it accomplished. It would re
quire the consent of the State, of New York,
which is not likely to be obtained easily, and
then it vroul require the consent of Con.
grow, as little likely to be given as the oth
er. W e thin there is no p ro bability that
it will ever be seriously attempted . Harris
burg Anzeri n.
o
n
, . ...
omvz SLAVE LAW I,PI RHODIg L3LANDe......
The subject of the Fugitive Slave Law hav
ing been rarefied to a special committee of
tlie Rhode Isliurd Legislature, they have re
ported that there is not sullcieht tine fire its
full ixonsideration at they prosent session, but
recommend, tile passage - of the following act :
"An act in Valation to:pensonS Claimed_ id
,
this state as fugitives from Orrice or latsor,
rt shall be the duty of, the.Attoraey, General
whenever ko i s informed that any i nhabitant
Of thii State .arresteil'Oe'4 * ,,Oned Ails futi- i
tiviliom fierikeTOrilitor-rtrii(lnid,taith•l-
fullicat, th•Ripenae,ot She 8 44.04)/lie ilt I
lawful Means ha pisitsecilifeedi- and roam '
Ufbil l egally ' d ' -eaed i - r: ei Fy. i,iudi ,person
so arrested or elaillied" " s''
' The, bill introdiced 110 r. 11,V, Aker some
time ago, - hit& Benati4!eititahliiiiing a sys
tem of Frei Banking, in which. State stocks
are to be made the biSislOt the issues, and
deposited with' the 'Abditoi -- Giineral as a
pledge for their erentdia redempt4l"...halk
been reported f!om the Committee on Banks,
and made the order of thidiy for to-morrow.
The bill provides that iv' persOrn, otasso
ciation of persons, who inio wish to eng age
oe
in the business-of baukieg, may, by:de it
ing with the Auditor Getters' 'State stbeks,
amounting to not less thanisso,ooo, nor more
than $400,000, rseeive fierh the Auditor Gen
eral blank Bank Notes to the , amount *l'9s
per cent. on 'the market Talus of the' stocks
deposited. The person or',ltssociation of per
sons depositing the.stocks must adopt a-name
for their bank, open an oitee„and havetheir
notes signed by a President and Ca4hier ;
the notes are also to be countersigned by a
Register in the Auditor• G eneral ' s i office.
The no thus issued are Mak redeema
ble in gold= end silver at the counter of the
bank, when presented during ordinary bank
ing hours. If not so redeemed, the holder
may have them protestedAy a Notary Pub=
lic, and commupicate a copy of the protest.
to the Auditor General; who, on receiving
the protest, shall notify. the bank to pay the
notes ; and if they are noi,4iaid within ten
days after such • notice, prOceed to sell the
stocks deposited with him, and apply the
money thus realized to their redemption.
The interest on the "stock deposited is to
be. paid to the depositors, excepting one per
cent. thereon, which is to be retain ed by the
Auditor General, and out of the fund created
by this one per cent. he is; to pay the expen
ses of the engraving, issuing and signing , the
banknotes, and the balance is to go into the
Sinking Fund. ' - ,
• These are some of the substantive and
most. important provisions of the bill, and'
give a very accurate idea Of its general fea
tures. Amendments will, doubtless
,be pro
posed ; and we think it likely that some im
portant changes will be' made in it. We are
under the impression that the sum of $50,-
000 is much too high, as the, minimum a
mount of capital to be . employed in any one
institution. Our opinion is, that this sum
might very properly and advantageously be
reduced to $25,000.
If the object be to make a free banking
system; and avoid every thing like monopoly
and special privilege, as we understand it to
be, then it will be absolutely necessary to
modify this proviscon. To• leave it as it is
would be to perpetuate One of the rankest
abuses of the present SYStem. We desire to
see the business of banking rendered, not
only safe and certain to the noteholder, as
well as the banker; but we wish to see it, at
the same time, open, like any other business
in the State, to the man of moderate means.
Harrisburg American.,
Cheap Postage Bill.
This-bill, which has just passed the Uni
ted States Senate, has been materially alter
ed by that body in. refernce 0 the rates of
postage on letters and newspapers. The
provision4On these points, as they now stand
in the amended bill, are substantially as
lews. We copy from the Washington Re
public :
With regard to letter posia' ge; the Senate
bill provides, that from and-after June 30th,
1851, in lieu of the rates of postage now es
tablished by. law, there stall be charged the
following rates, to wit : ?or every singlelet
ter in manuscript, or paper of any kind upon
which idormation - shall; .be asked, dm., con
veyed in the mail, fur atiy distance between
places within the United States not exceed
ing 3000 miles, three ceats, when the post
age slialthave been prepaid; Radler any dis
tance exceeding 3000 Miles, double those
rates; for every suchsingle letter, when con
veyed wholly or in part, by sea, and to , or,
from any foreign country, for any distance
over 2500 miles, twenty ;cents; and for any
distance under 2500 miles, ten egnts. • A sin•
gle letter is 9ne pot exceeding half an mince.
Double and treble letters pay douhle and
treble -these rates.
The rates of, postage on newspapers may
be stated thus : All newspapers r not exceed
ing three ounces in weight, sent td' actual
"iubseribers from the oftice of publication, ,
shall be charged as follows : Weekly pa
pers, within the county where published,,
free; for any distance hot exeeedinm e fifty
miles out of the county Where published, five!
cents per quarter; over 360 wiles, ten cents;
per qtfiuter ; 'over 300 kind not exceeding 1 ,
1000, fifteen cents per -quarter ; over 1000 1 '
and and not exceeding 2000 miles, twenty
cents per quarter; ` over 20_00 And"nnt exceed -1
ing 4000, twenty - five cents per quarter t. and;
for any greater 'distane4, thirty cents peel
quarter; semi-weekly papers to'pay double,'
4i-weekly treble, and pipero :oftener'
than tri-weekly, five times the4,rates.
, For aay other hook, paper, Magazine, 4k.'
not exceeding an ounce 4 weight, there shell{
be paid for any distance not e i keeeding 500
miles one cent. I I .
Over 500, not exceedingilsoo m's., 2 cents.,
" 1500 - " • 25001 3 "
" 2500 " ' 3500, ;" 4 "
" 3500 "' 45001' " 5 , • ,
For each additional' o`'neii o fractieb, the!
rates are proportionably - ueres4ed.
. ~
Hoantatt DEA:rm.—The body of - Jaw"!
O. liarrington, a biaii'Of peoable:eßniitic;,l
ions, but who has for soi e tin) beau sidaTilk;
t o intemperauce4-waalui d iit Ya elittreli,l
between Canterbury 141 iDeL,- 6nl
Saturday liist;'!-Itis eup : bieeteiw itse
li z i
gallery of "the,4hisOlit4i-Faiiiouilii(eiflig,:l
through, an outer Onott, - phinini4lticfidat i
the weather, and beingintanuigakfail.ll, init.,.. ,
foremost too the tlocktekhii . -A 0,4 Ilifids ?di
the - tlone-wie' *iit with - Vat* , shfii , leir
th*tibilett 44 4001 Jiiiifediek#l,Ti*te:
I
must' have .cra w , - ilbo - oe,lo:4l,itiv44eift.:
ouLto'hs 414$14;.,..ilik,hagisitliit'440,14:A.
key 7e-etre - CIRO le tkilte!!"l : 4 - s - - i= : • .., • - ii•:- ~ .., . •0
s - f, - "xllik.'"._ ..,
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Rabies-Riiblas - lief thie'Wernieg.‘: fi -- -
.
• -
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fitit •
~.4rthe. P leeent M 4 4
thts*,e - Liv - 4 00 1 .11 11 . 111 0betir iii.
duce.l* se ileS of :. iiiejuilaiiitjp ,ti l i .
OPPro'l.ing 4the',.' :iiiiiiiiiiioii*SUN ' 't.
i t .
edtat 'the-iiit- - - ..titii , oreiwigr* a - At ,
.pressinAta.dSeim /*joint ,tlingaitof
syl calms .to - trelst: thine'. nsefimites. , - a s - al fug!:
settlement of 'ith .'-stlisiery qu - estiiti.:>.
resolutions's:vie4-Ifor considetitit i 4
11th UILI* 11.42
oiirl " , ,Of'Erie• P ' . - -
4414...
to strike out.* .vslitiiii res io ui t i o i i :
sert instead ~ ;: ilk* ofrdi t ' owai
lows: -• 1
____,, , 'l l -- nil `-. '., %. 'r"-' '
'l.f
Resolved,-Tbi the ; Legislature aedtle
of Penn4ivnstis hisiie entertairked.iid 6 'll
cherish a devote:. 'attachment f ior .thnitii*...
of the Stites, 4. that venerationkwtbfin s .
tional Constitutio. is unimpaired, deepiiiiit.
ed, and unchan : . le. ' ' ''' —'' i ,i, tt',
Resolved, T, a , no. action of th e:nat nast
Congress :eafi 4 sif them to - faltei; - *4.41, 3
steady and unifor ' - pippose which has eie
i
tofore controlled Ohl conduct in sasttg
the glorious aid patriotic works of tit 411-
thers of the Re 'u tic: " ' , ": . ': - Ite •
Resolved, That whatever sectional jell* i .
ies 'and interests have threatened`dkcg*to
the Coli'atitutio4 . ri trnioii, - tbnpiserioti " , :
pulses of the pen le, of other States, in , .
tenance of out glori9lia institigione,,...' , $
found a reopcindln r ,oapd concurritig.f4i, 'is
the bosoms of . itui: citizens.
..-, , ,
Resolved,' , Tisai. all attempts to eie`ii ,ien'
impression thatltitnititeitity of the Va . _ ' is
1
- ndangered fro * any cause, should, hii ' o g-
Bandy rebukcdrai the labor', of heated dud
misguided imaitation; or the result V lisis
• efensible design. :: - ' . '1,.::
Resolved, -Alai ;'
- the action of Congo**
be admission of t:siliforitits into the Unfan
with.a rePublicin !Constitution. sis.ftirmeclb;
her citizens, thejformation of, Territorial Gov
• fitments fur lib'W,Meiien and:Utah, and! he
bolition of thebdio' us state traffic in the Os-
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ob ' '
trict of Columba ,meets the appr attOttlof
.
this ,Legisrature. ' - ‘ l'l
• Rewired, That the settling of the bounaa
at
ry of Texas, and he payment oflarge 694
of money, to%sec r iree a peaceable acluiescetied
on the part of. the,State, is,cheerfully acitti.
esced in by. thii . Legislature, as -a meanslrof
avoiding the d istracting and dangerous !its
tiou likely to r esul t , from a conflict of jinn'.
diction between the National GoVerrMent.
ana a member Of I . ',he Confederecy. '.
Live Resolved, Thetithe lately enacted/Fa...lire
Slave Law, Alihile lit remains # statute, 14e.
mands the honest 'support of all citizens, #nd
a ready
into ec co . -operatiOn in:carrying iti,prorisilins
etlt li ' ..
Resolved, That ithe safety of.the free crier.
ed populaticin, alas just sense'of duty tolhe
cause of right an ;truth, demand the monad-
cation and amendment of said Statute to tech
extent as may be necessary to:do equal .les
tice to all classes claiming the protectiorif, of
our laws.; and that...it is firmly believed Cici
gress will so modify it, when tu their wisainn .
it may be done w adi safety to all internist,
connected therewith. '41.!
Resolved; That we , utterly abhor and le
pudiate thadocniite that, there is - a powet in_
Congress to enterlinto contracts so obligate
ry in-their nature, that upon the observahee
or infraction - thereof,- the union : and, Co4ti
tation of.these co4reign States shall depeel
for future existence. -
Mr. Brooke of Chester ' thereupon Offefed
to amend hy striking out the original
tions and those Pre l ,iposed by `Mr. Walker, sod
-
insert the following:
-I
Resolved. That the American people;,bennd
together by ki nd red blued and common iiii
,
, ditions, still cherish a paramount regari> -rut
the union of their fathers; anti that, tlieylize
ready to rebuke any attempt to violate 4in
tegruy, to disturbithe compromises on. kich
it is baied, -sir to resist. the laws'which hive
been enacted under-its alithority. TliatZin
the judgement ofhe Legislature; the series •
of measures pass ed during the last isealeu
of Congress;:withje riewlof healing the #ee
tional diticultiee Which : 4d. sPrung.from the
slavery and territorialluestion#,2 - were requi
red by the- circuMstrin ' : and conditions of
t e country , and p r,t4. - - -allay ;upon
ti and animosities ' that 'were` rapidly Ow
i ng one sectiot. of,-.lhe Country from Asa
li e€o 9.
tlier, and destroying those fraternal -midi
nts which ara - tiie strongest "support k e `1,16
I.,nstitution. - . They - were adopted ia the siiirit
l
o conciliation, And' for the:o4oBi i f: :iponetli
ee
a?on t and r - ..w# believe; that.a gieat.xiilajitiity
o our fellow ,cititizens •sympithizi, to itnit
s iris and : iii thati purpose,- and ;in' the iMiuf
a, prove 'and are - ro,paNdi"iii - iil iiiipacul to.
s tain thOse ediettneuts;',: - '. l - - .''' ' ' ,1
Resolved,' !Midi the-series of diessuns
f 4to 'are regatdad by-tbialietrisiatialf ii .
l a
`s biebte eh th - *aced ha
fi ri a l l Of °-t ad iii' li al e e' red it afi to,,
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t e
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all iii_nonst l itt f .pineoeilly,:iigro g iiir it
;
: lation tO guard iliiiitatiyasiOti* abuse; ."
idle, it may)xii,matinvo,ukned,frilm the,
oppofition-irhick..ithey All - inconatereil, tblit
ione• of those ui*itiree'li:eibe..fiee . -framitit,
Pirfect.ionst:OeS 600tiieleaa;fiitheii.'aidtli
ak d'i'eP4R,ge,*oo connection :taTme4 a i l*
tata L of 6 otiprotaiiiatiiiiilost coaciiiidoqtfla
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opitiiolia;laitait* l Aiwheiiiifill iist**
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