JEPFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thursday, November 92, 1849. 'More Ranks Failing. li is reported that Walter Joy's Bank at Buffa lo;Ttf.;Y;. and tho Pawtucket Bank at Providence, R.I , havp failed. ' Odd Fellowsuud Sons off Teiripcjrailce TheKvliole number of members of theiridpen(i ente'df 'Oatf'Feilows in the United ''States, according to the lasf annual report of he" Grand Lodge, was 138,401, andHlieinitiatTqns during the lastly ear, 23,350... The number cf deaths in the sameyear .were 1,162,- and the amount paid for benefits $303,943, or an average of i$2,62i ito. each, member. The Order, of ,the Sons.of Temperance is of much more reejtitjoriginandtits rapid pro of.the great moral' reforms of the age. 'The whole number' oY members of ihis order in the United Stales is now 221,473. "The imations for the last year. 'according to the official reports, were lll, 520: the number of deaths 1,200, and the amount paid for benefits $230,836. or an average'ofa little over SI, 04 l-i to each member." It will be seen J that the membership of the Sons of Temperance exceeds that of the Odd Fellows by SSTt, and that notwithstanding this great exess the deaths in'trte former order exceed those of the latier but 381' The' Odd Fellows have, moreoveT; paid out ' 133,050 more for benefits than the Sons of Tem peranceSvnh a much larger membership; but this isAsnflicieritly explained by the higher weekly Tates paid by 'thm to sirk or disabled members, and theValso', defray expenses of burial, make allow a nee1 to widows, &c. Sic, which the Sons of Tem- perarTce d6 not, or at least not to the same extent. JO The -Steamboat Louisiana, while between two; other 'Steamboats', 'at the - wharf at New Or leansi -the decks of all three crowded with passen gers, exploded both her boilers, and killed, it is supposed, two hundred persons. The captain of the. boat has been arrested and held to bail 'in, the sum of SS,000. The terrible affair occurred about live o'clock on Thursday evening. The cholera has broken out again at St. Louis. A steamboat from New Orleans arrived there a few days ago, that had thirty cases and seventeen deaths on board, dining the passage. .The Cashier of the Susquehanna County. Bank, whp4was imprisoned in default of $40,000 surety, hasibeen. liberated ons'bail, and has left .for the West. He will probably take care to out of harm's way. A State Convention of those friendly to a revi sion of the Tariff, was held at Trenton on Wed nesday of last week. They contend for the old doctrine of protection, and urge upon Congress to do something to set in motion the machinery that has been stopped by the Tariff of 1846, and give employment again to the mass of operatives that have been thrown out. Singular and mysterious. The Lake Providence Republican on the 23d ult. relates the following singular circumstance: .iSome time ago, when the Cholera was raging to such an alarming extent in our parish, a gentle man residing a short distance from Providence determined to jemove his wife to a more secure locality, and accordingly sent her to I?ew Orleans. Tbe husband i3don received the fatal new3 thatlhe. tender partner of his bosom had .fallen a victim to the dreadful pestilence, in the city of N. Orleans. Months, however, .rolled by, and Time, the great physician, assuaged the first violence of grief intoia pensive and melancholy-remembrance of his departed saint. Soon he iormed the acquaintance of another lady who, attracted his respect by .her many fine qualities, and at last woke to life, his sluggish and brokenheart, by her quiet and mod est :p reference for htm. Suffice it to say, that about four weeks since they "were married, and the clouds of sorrow fled from their connubial bowers. t.About a week since the first wife appeared and. flung herself into the arms of her husband, to the great dismay of the new bride. We have heard many explanations given, of rea sons of her long absence, and. many conjectures as to the course the parties. wtill now take. We cannot at present state them, as the mattor may. be Investigated in the Courts of Justice. Gratifying Result. Th?' tolls on the State works, received at the State TfeasUry up to Nov. I, amount to SI, "388,446 62 1,32,1032 50 uLasityearto November, : Exces3,jn favor of 1849, . $67,414 22 Thoiscal year, in this State, closes on the 1st of.oyember,. . When we take into account the fact. that, in con sequence of the loy stage of water in the canal during a great portion of the summer, navigation was partially interrupted on some .portions of the ineand altogether suspended on others, this is certainly a very gratifying exhibit. W e have rea son to Know too that there has been a large.increase ofrevenoue from other sources, and that,altogether the finances of the State are in a very flourishing condition. Not only have all the demands upon the treasury, for interest and other expenses, been promptly met, .but a ery .cpflsierable amount nearly .two hundred tup.usand dollars has been appropriated to the reduction of the S.ate debt, underlie provisions of the act o.f,the last session cstabhshing a sinking fund, and we may look for a stiH greateweduction of the debt in lhe"cojirse of the coming year. .... . The small pox is ragingjwith great fatality at Lunenburg, Mass. gress has been even .more remarkable than thatuf , ieaumS .-coioco in ine. last legislature wno was Odd FeliowslVip, omng'erfiaps, in a great meas- m favor of extending this privilege of exemption, urV, io the fact hat the fees' of iniWdn, &c, are lo properiv Worth at least FIVE THOUSAND much : lesandat' order had its rise in one DOLLARS, instead of TRHEE HUNDRED, as The Exemption of Homestead Prop erty from, Sale. oh Execution. , OThe York 'Republican says that amongst ttfein siruiuenis empioyea uyt iuc uusuwu fiu injure tho Whig cause in that county and perhaps else where previous to the late election, none was more efficient than the charge made by the elec tioneerers that Whigs were the authors of, and wholly responsible for, the enactment of the ex emption, or $300 law, passed at the last session of the Legislature. As in the case of the school law, this accusation was not brought; forward 'in .the public journals, because, itwas well known that it would not bear discussion, but, was'slily ?aiid secretly, circulated to, turn the current of a; most , unfounded and ridiculous popular hostility to Jhe-lav? pgajnst the Whig party. Th& honesty of this course, .on the part of our opponents, will be more manifest,'when it, is observed that the greatleader of the iocofoco party in the Seriate, -the gallant Ckptairi Small, the hero of never so many hard-fought'fields in Mexico, introduced into 'that;body a bill to exempt absolutely from execu- tio'ni property, the clear yearly value of which should oe not more man mree nunarea, dollars., jjrom this it would seem that there was at least one, Tpaseed by the Whig hiajority. ;But t ! lhere was rea"y serious opposition But to show that to this law- on the part of anybo'dy in Ihe last Legislature, i t is only necessary to present the yeasdxid nays as they were recorded in the' two housesupuu the'finaF passage ol the bill: . Senate : Yeas Messrs. Boas, .BiiaavijEY, Brooke, Cunriingham, Forsyth, Frick,nHuoiis,; Ives, Johnson, Mason, Matthias, McCaslin. Qver- : field, Sankey Savery, Smalt., Sterrett & Stree- ter id. . Nays Messrs. Best. Crabb. Kins-. Xonifrmach- et Lawrence, Levis, Rich, Sadler.' Smyser, Stine and Darsie, Speaker 11 House : Yeas Messrs. Bdker, Ball. Bent. Cronyn, Corf, Courtney, Diehl, Duncan, Elliott, Emery, Eshleman, H. S. Evans, W. Evans, Fau- sold, It isher, Frick, Fuller, George, Hainpson, Hen ry, Henszey, erring, Higgins, Hortz, Ilower, Kirk, Klotz, Laird, Ldmbertdn, Little, McCalmont, McCartney, McCulloch, McKee, McLaughlin, Marx, Meek, Jilyers; Nickleson, Pearce, Porter, Redick. Robb, Roberts, Rupley, Ryman, Schoan over, Seibert, Smyth, Sondes Steel, Slockwell, Swartwelder, Taggart, Thorn, N. Thorn, Walters, , Wattle, Weirick, Wilcox and Packer, Sp'r 01. Nays Messrs. Biddle, Bull, JO. Evans, Fege ley, Gillespie, Gordon, Laubach, Lewis, Long, LuckeJibach, McSherry, Miller, Otto, Shaffner, Shap. R. R. Smith, W. Smith, Williams, Witmer and Zerby 21. Thus it would appear that the bill was passed by a vote of nearly two-thirds in each House, in a Legislature where the parties were nearly equally J divided; ten Locofocos voting for it in the Senate to only one against it, and thirty-two in the House to only ten against it. The exemption-haling op position are here put in the position of nearly unan imously sustaining in the Legislature what they denounce in private conclave and secret meetings on the eve of an election. The Republican gives a history of the rise and progress of the exemption system in Pennsylvania, which shows very conclusively that the doctrine of exemption is no'riew or. stragne thing io the people, but that as far back as 1814 it engaged the attention of their representatives in the Legisla ture. The first law on the subject was enacted in 1814, under the title of" an Act to promote the comfort of the poor," and the tendency of all sub sequent legislation upon the subject, has been to enlarge, progressively, the number of exempted ar ticles. The Aci of 1814 was Xollowed by that of 1821 which, under the title of" an Act io encour age domestic industry and promote the comfort of the poor," still increased the number. These were all included in the Act of 1836 part of the revised code and we believe a few more added. Still further additions were made by the Act of 1836, in favor of ''persons actually engaged in the science of agriculture," by the exemption of a horse worth S50, gears and plow, or a yoke of oxen, yoke and chain, and plow, at their option. The reader will observe, says the Republican, that our Legislators, in the passage of all these laws, acted on the supposition that they were pro moting the comfort of, and relieving the poor man. That was the object which they had in view The next question is as to the value of the exempted articles. This will depend, of course, much upon the judgment of the apraisers. WTe find an ap praisement to the widow of a decedent under the intestate law of a .portion of the articles which were exempt from execution amounting to $189, 90. This is exclusive of the horse, gears and plow, which at $50 for the former, and 5 for each of the latter, would raise the amount to S249,90. Still some of the exempted articles are not included; and we believe that a full appraisement of them all, made without favor to the debtor or the xyidow, would reach nearly, if not quite, the sum of $300. Now what .does the law of last session effect 1 It enacts that, instead of certain specific articles, worth probably that amount the debtor may re tain $300 worth of property of any kind at a valu ation to be made by sworn appraisers. This puts all on an equal footing, and "equality is equity ." Heretofore, some debtors may have had all the exempted articles, and kept them, while another has had few of them, and has seen nearly his whole property swept away. Comparatively few laboring men, or mechanics, keep a cow, two hogs, 6 sheep, a horse, gears and plovvwith six months' feed, and two hundred pounds of meat, twenty bushels of potatoes and ten bushels of grain; but they may .have. in their houses articles of comfort which the exemption of $30 worth .of household utensils would not, protect. The law puts all on the same level, and; enables all-to retain, if they have so much, an equal amount of property. It goes further it pprmits the debtor to elect whether he will retain, if he owns both, $300 inreil or personal estate. It does not permit him tofeep both, as Capt. Small's law would have done; hut it enables him. to choose. The passage of the three hundred dollars exemp tion lavy, was (designed to accomplish, and we believe has .accomplished, a humane and benevo lent purpose, iOur opponents are welcome to all the political capital they can make out of an open '1 I T e .1 1 . -r . t - and honest opposition to it. We only object to the -sly andcovert proceedings which characterized,, their opposition in the late canjpaigu. vv eggirej prdudUo ciaitilit as a genuine Whimeasurelfor Ihe amelioration and improvement ofthe conditions of the poor and unprotected. The rich are able to take care of themselves, but the poor demand the shelter and protection of the law. Confident that this is a law of that character, rather than see it repealed, we should hail with pleasure a still further extension of its principles. We would not goAquite;so; Tar as, the gallanjfpapt. Smallbut far enougtyo .secure to every.jnd.ustriouSjand, frugal, family in the -Stato, a sacred and? inviolable, home, where the . hard, stern minions jpfjhe law may never intrude. By" misrepresentation and false hood as. to; the, probable effect ofsuchia "system, the few who are interested in preventingjtsiaflop tion, may succeed;for nitime in prejudicing against it even those whom it was specially designed to'prb'-'i tect-r but the force of right ahdirreason 'will even tually gain its. sway', and trilth nntf justice' . will as's'uj-'e'dly' triumph m the nd, fn'' regard to"this as well as all other measures". , The ,huhiang and' en- J lightened statesman, strong in the .rectitudof hisr constituents, though his measureSjipay. meet .with interested and selfish opposition for;a while,, may, yet confidently bie.,h'S;(ti.me;, fur.the,.seeds of wisr dom and benevolence thus sowmupori the, surface; ofsociety, "like bread castuipon the waters," will' return to: him many days -henc'in 'a haivest bf popular 'applause. ' - - ' Questioning; Candidates. There' is in' every political, contest, however heated, some little funj and in-the-jWest.iteems a kind of a .natural ingredient., jAtthe eleetipn in. Ohio, one.of the candidates, foi a local offic'e.in Qiny tf ...... . . , - cinhati,was interrogated, by aiconstituent, and an swered the interrogations after this wise: -Q. Are you in favor of the next war ? "A. Yes, '--' Q. Should you run," will you stop running when the polls closo, or will you run all night 1 ' ' A. I'll stop. . . ' ' ' ; ' Q. Are you a judge of good braiidy ' try me. , . v Every thing was satisfactory to. the constituent, except the dime which the brandy cost him. Editorial Convention. Agreeably io previous notice a number of the country editors, of Pennsylvania met ai Bueh ier'a Eage Hotel, Harrisburg, a., on Friday ihe 9h inst., and organized by appointing the Hon.NniRON Strickland, editor of .the West Cheater Republican, President, M. D Holbipok, Esq., .editor of the Lancasterian, and C. K. Mc Clure, editor ihe Juniata. Sentinel, Vice Presi dents; George Pringer,, Esq , ediior of the Leuisiown Gazette, and J. M Cooper, ediior of ihe Valley Spirit, Secretaries. On motion, Messrs. Theo. Fenn,.of ihe Penn sylvania Telegraph, P S. Decheri, of ihe Val ley Spirit, Wm. P. Cooper, of ihe Juniata Reg ister, Henry S. Evans, of the Village Record, John Hi.Brauon, of ihe Carlisle Volunteer, Wm. M. Breslin, of the Lebanon Adverliier, were appoinied to report a course of action to the Convention. After con-ultaiion by ihe comminee, .they made ihe following report to the Convention which was adopted: Resolved, That an adjourned convention of the editors and publishers of newspapers with in the Stale of Pennsylvania be held in ihe bor ough of Harrisburg on Tuesday the FIRST day of January next, (1.850) io memorialize Congress on the subject of such an alteration of the postage law as will allow newspapers to be sent in ihe mails, within the counties and congressional dutricia in which they are pub lished, free of postage; also to memorializeMhe Lelgialaiure of Pennsylvania on ihe subject of havihg the laws of a public nature published in the newspapers of ihe Gommonweahh;, andi to adopt such other measures as will be calcu lated io protect and advance ihe interests of ihe public and the publishers of newspapers of the interior, as -they may deem proper and impor tant. Resolved, That ihe editors and publishers of newspapers in Pennsylvania, without distinc tion of party, are requested, and expected to at tend aid convention. Resolved, That ihe above proceedings be signed by the officers, and published in all the papers of ihe Commonwealth; and that this convention adjourn io meet, on said day N I M ROD STRICKLAND, Presid'.t. M n rj C. K. McClure, s J, M. Cooper 'jSecreUiMKM. in?3 A curious case lately occurred in , New York. A Frenchmen, recently arrived from the Island of Martinique, married lo.a preny girl, ihe daughter of a, Frencmn wiih whom he vyas boarding, afier a'short acquaintance. Hit wife soon ascertained that he had a large amount af money; and ihe'n a plot was laid to haye him arrested. His wife, wiih a Mr. Du. rand, went to a magistrates' office, where she made oaih that he had beaten her, and . war rant was issued for his arrest., He was invited io ihe house of Durand, arresied, and carried before the tnagistraie. He declared his inno cence, and his belief that the proceeding was a plot to rob him; and the magistrate sent two officers io his residence, where they found, 'he wife with two. men who had robbed the house of all its irnasure, and .fled about ten minuies before. The wife has not yet been found and tlje supposition is that she has either fled, or been murdered by her accomplicei to get the money, amounting io over $10,000 " . i A lioiir Konte for Coal. Tweniy-jyo joqs of, Lehigh coal were re ceived at Louis on jhe 29ih ulty haying been brought from i his Slate, by way qf Vhe N;ey York canals, ihe nortjiern lakes ihe Illihpis and Michigan canal and the Illinois river, " mi". JLarce Corn. t We have lying . before iis a specimen of corn that does great credit to Newdiersey. It was raised on the farm of Mrilliam Hooten, of Mooresiown, (N. J.) and it contains . 1918 grains, in regujac rows and- of, large .jrize.--There are four ears of the itaie size, taken from the same stalk, a if'i "-ifiii Tif ffir.d From Europe. it herTeiegraph Report ofher intelligence England. The English press devotes mtich space lo ihe consideration of ihe Canadian an nexation address. The London Times says, by twhornsoev.erjHoposed orconcocted, it reflects great credit upon the tact, skill, and adroitness bf iis author! Tn speaking of the annexaiion of Canada lo ihe United States the Times sayb thaXMbo coifducof'tKoJEhglfsh people will be directed by moiives-pfpxudence andinteiest alone. If they think hpy ,can do without Can ada, then and then-onjywill ihey; give up Can ada. They will not cede ihoso harbors which must ever comniand the mouth of the St. Law- ! rehcej and protect' ihe trade of.ihe Atlantic. r France. 1 he French Ministry has-resigned r rjeeri dismissed, becausb of fhefr 5diKihcliiW- or tion-to 'sustain tne'views emoouiea in' ine rres idehl'a letter to M. Ney Telatiiig to the affairs o'f'Rome. Great eXciternent 'existed' in Paris m consequence, but the President was firm, and' has written a letfer to ihe Assembly wljich the' London Tunes characterizes ?as imprudent but spirited. He has formed a new-G'abinei, which wholly represents the views'of the President and a majorily of ihe Assembly: ' The reception of this intelligence in Loifdon' caused much surprise and ejccitemeni.1 ' tPhe Ministers resigned in a body oil ih'e-30fh, though Orie'accounl safs : fhey 'wfere dismissed. Ii seems thai the whoIe Minihiry5 assembled that morningj with ihe excepiion -of 0011,01 Bar rot, who was ill, 10 advise the Pre&ident res peeling the appointment of a successor to M. Falloux', ihe retiring Minister.. J At their meet ing Louis Napoleon emphatically declared lhat the Cabinet wanted dignity, an insult 100 deep to be forgiven. The President added that the Cabinet had been loo subservient to the Conservative party of ihe Assembly; that the Clubs of ihe Council of State did what he him self could not do, settled ihe policy of Govern ment, and actually nnfgjnated the Ministry. This was enough. An explosion instantly followed. ' ' In the evening M. Dupi.v read to the Assem bly a message from the Presideni, which is very spirited and interesting, for it can hardly fail 10 provoke angry passions, and it may possibly produce ihe coup d'etat which hasJ long been foreshadowed. . The London Times says, if this is a clear and definite signification 'of the sweeping mea sures by which the French President has changed his whole administration, we must suppose that Louis Napoleon intends 10 con vey 10 France and the woild his intention 10 assume, in his own person, ihe supreme direc tion of the affairs of the Republic. " Men are needed," says ihe Presideni, "who can com prehend the necessity of the single direction of a firm character, and of a clearly defined policyt which does not compromise power by: any ir resolution men who are as much filled with ihe conviction of my peculiar responsibility as their own, and of ihe necessity of action as weii as of words," v Amongst the more immediate consequences of this change, we place, in the first rank, the . t - I.- ir --.l r..ujt". . r- stimulus it evidently applies 10 all and each of the parties and factions in Prance, which are couniing the hours of ihe preseiit Government. All parlies perceive that by assuming the chief personal responsibility of the administration at' such a moment, Louis Napoleon had placed himself between absolute succees, crowned by absolute power, and certain destruciion. Gen. d'Hautville isio be the new Minister of War, and ad; interim, in the absence of M. de Brienval, charged wiih the portfolio of For eign Affairs ; M. Achilleford is Minister of Finance. M. Thiers, M. Mole, and General Changar nier support the new Ministry, but have .too much prudence, it is said, to join it. The proposition of Napoleon Bonaparie for an amnesty for the insurgents of June came be fore the Assembly on ihe 25th of October. After much discussion ihe proposition was neg atived. Rome. Assassinations of ihe French sol diers continued at the latest dales. It is ex pected lhat ihe Pope will return soon, and that the French army will leave immediately. Great hostility was still maintained towards the Pope. A correspondent of the London Tunes say 8 thai, if ihe Pope returns 10 Rome, it must be under the protection of foreign bayonets. Russia The Parisian journals publish the following imporiant despaich from Gen. La moriciere to the Minister of Foreign Affairs : "St Petersburgh, Oct. 18, 1849. , " Count Nesselrode notified ihe Ottoman En voy ;yesterlay lhat ihe Emperor, taking into consideration the letter of ihe Sultan, confined himself 10 a demand thai the Hungarian and Polish refugees should be expelled from Tur key. Reia Effendi regards the affair as set tled." General Lamoriciere is to be called, from Russia and given an important post. Turkey. There is nothing of special inter est from Turkey. The Polish and Hungarian refugees have been provided with neyv quarters, Kossuth and the leaders remain at Widdin until measures are taken for their ultimate lib eration. Sir Stratford Canning has sent passports 10 General Guyon, ihe Irish Hungarian officer, and other British subjects who had been in the service of Hungary. Spain. The New American Minister , has formerly presented himself, and with much tact and skill declaimed, in the name of his President, the doings of ihs party who proposed to seize upon Cuba. The MARKET8,rLiVER-paoL, Nov. 3, 1849. The demand for cotton has fallen off ,wiih both ihe trade and speculators. Common. qual ities have receded l-8d.; other qualities are without. change. Commiiiee's quoiatiohs of lair upland and Mobile 6 l-2d.: Orleans 6 3-4d? Flour and corn are exceedingly dull', .and prices are a shade lower. There is uo, new Jea,iur,ein the, ; money ntarr ket., Cop.sojs a ro, 892 5-8; UnMftd Slaies 6's 106 a 108 1 2; Pennsylvania 6t, 79a 9Qj. Ma ryland ps;,87 a. 88..- . Prices ofTobacco.are firnywaih sales during ihe, p.as,impnth. of 4,385- hogsheads, being the largest on record, at full prices, with an upward tendency. rfinTiimif i ? The.sieamer wenca.i fromLtvernool, brings adviceslio "the 3d instant. The following? is Harrisburg Bank. !':!rhe Telegraph stales that it has seen new counterfeit 5's on this bank, and gives the fol lowing description of them : rv ThV paper is-flimsy ; but a pretty good imi tation ol ine color ot tne genuine ; not quite so much blue lint, and slightly inclining to red. The signature of the President is a tolerable imitation that of the Cashier g en era 1 1 yloi ff: and awkward. The other pen-work is clumsy. The note is a quarter of an inch too long. The female figures at each end are indistinct jjtho teeth of ihe rake can hardly be traced on that on the right hand. The" lines ' of fve, five, five? &c.V above and below ?are coarse' and-unworkmanlike.. The N. in No. is clqmsy. ..The ldw.eY point of ihe V. on each ide of tho1 'fig ure df justice, is blunt, while-on the genuine it js sharpv The space between the right; hand V die, and ihe female reaper, is VrauchMvyider than that on ihe left hand. This is , perKapi one of the best tests, as in the genuine those spaces are about equal. A litlle attenir6n.l;T'oJ these remarks" will enable any one'to detecubo counterfeit. - I T , ' x - 1 "mii " The Su Paul's (Minnesota) Chronicle,, fur nishes some interesting particulars respecting ihe climate, productions, &c.j bf? that -territory. Esculents p.f description and of superior qualjty are produced in abundance, and tfie 'crops of oais; and . Jijdian corn are spoken of as-being much heavier ihan ihose of Ohio and Indiana. Mechanics, and particularly house builders are in great demand, and it is believed that arti zans of small mean' could there acquire prop erty and grow up with the country.. The lum ber business is spoken of as attracting - much attention, and increasing in importance with the return of every spring and the rapid aug mentation of the population. Mercancantil and professional pursuits are in small demand, although Si. Paul's it is believed, would com pare favorably in this respect wiih any other town of ihe same size. The oldest inhabitants of the territory declare that at no place where they had formerly resided, hare they, or their families, enjoyed a greater share of health than in Minesoia. L.ate News from California. The steamer Empire City arrived at New York, last Sunday, from Chagres, whence she sailed on ihe 29th ult. She brings ihe Califor nia mails with papers and leiiers to Oct. 1. The steamer brings in all not less than ONE MILLION in Gold. The most important feature in ihe intelligenee brought by this arrival, is the announcement lhat California, in framing her Constitution, preparatory to her being admitted as a State into ihe Union, has, by a unanimous vole pro vided therein, that, ' Neither Slavery nor Invol untary Servitude, except for the Punishment of Crime, shall ever be tolerated in this State It was also decided lhat the boundaries of the Stale shall be tho&e fixed by Mexico, embracing ihe whole of ihe interior territory known as the Great Basin ; and that the State capiiol .shall be established at Pueblo San Jose. Parly politics had little to do in the election of delegates to ihe California Convention. A leiier to the Tribune says : The Convention had been in session a mouth, and had adopted in committee of ihe whole nearly ihree5fourths of a State Constitution. It is believed lhat another week will conclude their labors. A vote will (hen be taken on the constitution, and after .its adoption, an election will be held for the legislature and slate offi cers. Hon. Thomas Butler King, who was report ed dangerously ill at San Francisco at ihe pre vious accounts, was slowly recovering, and would leave for the Atlantic in iho steamer' of the 1st inst. It is his desire to be in Wash ington on ihe opening of Congress, to be ready to lay before thai body the facts he has obtained relative 10 California. . , . Tkhe barque Griffin Halsted, of Newark, had arrived at San Francisco, after a passage of 182 days round the Cape all hands, being well. Emmigrants were still pouring into the coun try 111 great numbers, from all quarters of the earth, including China; and the slate of things reported by our previous advices, continued, without striking changes. There are about one hundred ihousand' per sons in the mines; their average earnings are about $3 a day each. Intelligence had beon received of ihe Darcy pany, which was at the Salt Lake, near,tthe Mormon settlement, at ihe last accounts, and it was supposed that ihey would be .obliged 10 winter there unless relief was sent by the gov ernment in that direction, which had been done in some cases bofore. One of ihe members of the Boydon Compa ny, from Newark, has returned eniirely disap pointed (says the Daily Advertiser,) with -the country, which did not realize his anticipations. The gold was plenty, but very difficult to pro cure, and the proportion of those who made fortunes was no greater than among business men in the Stales; the business being wholly a matter of chance. Other passengers who have returned give melancholy reports of the stato of things. Much sickness prevailed in the city and at tho mines. Hundreds were seeking passage home, and a disastrous re-aciion was anticipaied by tnany. Properly was perfectly secure at the; mines, and persons, did not fear to leave it inthe most exposed positions. Every one was armed' for an emergency, though weapons were never called imo use. A correspondent of tho.NewatkDaiIyf writes .thus.: f,..., San Francisco ia a miserable place to,, live jn : ihe gambling houses get, the. moat, of the miners1 money. They are numerous and are open night and day, being specially crowded on Sundays, and the gambling is almost uni versal. It is not an uncommon thing td se'ea Spanish woman betting 70 to 100 ounces 6irra single card. Chris. Lilly, the man whok'ilIed McCoys is here keeping a Montes4abl. and 'a house of ill fame. .'. ,11 n The Knickerbocker Cotnpanyw.wWch: loft N. Y. in February, 70 in numjiar.jitakingtke Santa I?e route, encountered, dr.eadj ihe mouniaius, and were, broken ugw Onoof them, Andrew Smith, annonce.jThis arrival at the diggings or Wood's Creek wth a company of Taxaps, in a loiter uf September "Iai and
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