JE FFERS 0 NI AN REPUBLICAN Thursday, December 20, 1S49. U.HIU.M'1J--!- Congress ."Vo oryaizaJioia Yol. The Philadelphia papers of yesterday inform us that no Speaker has been elected, as yet, to pre - side over the popular branch of the National he- gislalure., Seventeen days havo been fruitlessly snent in attemniin?T to oreanize Both Houses meet'dailv, but nothing can be done until the House iiiccvuaiiv,uiiiiiuiimi!i..ui uxv, - has effected an orgaization. The Rouse holds a meeting every day, and after balloting a few limes for Speaker, without making a choice, adjourn, at pe an expense to the people of about $2,600 a day, winch up to this time amounts to the sum of 41.- "00. if the House dose not succeed in electing ' ., ,. t M opeauer uunng iwe piucut v.ucn, vu uupi: vjiu Zack will assume1' the responsibility," and chase the eight dollar gentlemen away from the Capitol. KP A number of shares of the Easton Bank, belonging to the estate of the late Peter Miller, were Void in Easton on Manday last, at $G7 per share seventeen dollars above their par value. Closing lhe Csumls. The Board of Canal Commissioners have issued orders 16 draw off the Water from the Slate Ca nals Vo-ltlay. r-- Hetvspaper Gossip. The big Christmas BnoTiiEi: Jonathan this year is a grand affair, and no mistake ; yet we did not suppose its 'appearance would create so much newspaper talk. Almost every one of our exchan ges has something to say about this great holiday Pictorial. The latest report is that over 80,000 copies were sold during November. Well, it would not surprise us if twice that number were circula ted before Christmas, at 12 cents per copy for it-is by far the best thing of the kind ever issued. Wilson & Co., New York, are the publishers. Iev County Jail. The Easton Whig, of the 19th instant, says the County Commissioners of that County have con cluded to erect a new County Jail, upon the pres ent.Jail lot. The building is to occupy the whole front, 60 feet, and extend 126 feet in depth. The buildings are to be throe stories high, with fiat rnnfs. The plan provides for 30 cells, but it is intended to leave two or three of the partitions out and in that way throw two cells together for rooms, for the confinement of sick prisoners or persons not imprisoned for any crime. The Commissioners have contracted with Mr. Levi Bennet of Easton, to put up and complete the buildings for $1S,000. The Commissioners them selves visited a number of Prisons, and Mr. Ben- net has been on a tour to Mew York and Boston for the purpose of obtaining plans and the partic- ularspecifications. In regard to the contractor 1 we can say, ho is a good Mechanic, and experi enced builder. Astounding Weaitta of Cssba. It is estimated that the exports of sugar from Cuba, for 1S50, if nothing occurs to injure the crop between this and the early part of December, will be equal to 1,500,000 boxes, worth, at present rates, (molasses included), about S33,000,000. The lar gest crop exported hitherto, was in 1847, amount ing" Id near 1,350,000 boxes, since which date the cultivation has been increased, and the present j season has been uncommonly favorable. Wben ' wb consider that this immense amount of wealth j is but one item of the produce of that fertile island, we wonder that the inhabitants continue in a state of semi-slavery to the indolent Spaniard. Pennsylvania ftonmsatioits. We learn that there is a strong delegation in Washington from Pennsylvania, remonstrating a gainst the confirmation of Collector Lewis. An other appointment to which strong exception Is ta- , .i r D ni vr Ken 15 mat OI James iu. I uClf a va. iu , pies. It is thought that he will resign in a very . few days, and that his appointmeut will bo confer- red upon E. Joy Morris. Esq., ofPhiladelphia, one of the most meritorious Whigs in the State. The j.Uinttnn ir fol I'otVA ic that htu hoo fli io in ?i 1 VUJCULJU1 JJ k - W k. 1. i C WHUK lil I1VU11U J til U verv precarious condition, and this objection gains force from the fact that his predecessor after set- ting out on his mission, was compelled to return ! from a similar cause, and to resign after drawing his out-fit and year s salary. With regard to CoUec.tor Lewis, a Washington corres spondent says, 'if any heed is given to the j ssion of the Whigs of Philadelphia, as well i cxpre as of the interior of the State, maifested by peti tfons remonstrating against his confirmation, as also through committees now in Washington, Mr. Lewis will not be able to pass the ordeal of the Senate." Sudstitue for Tobacco A substitute for To bacco has been discovered at Leipsic, by the che mist, Lewis Ettler. It is noticed by all the Ger man papers in terms of hih praise. They consid er the discovery important. The lu(e of DestfrcC The delegate now in Washington with the me morial, to Congress for the admission of this new State," informs the Globe that the word deserct is an ancient Egyptian one, and signifies a honey lee. -which we had heard before. The bee is every where, we believe, an emblem of industry, and hasbee.n selected for that reason by the JJesere tians, (if so thev may be called,) as their national device. Napoleon chose it .for the same reason ; and'when the Bpurbona came back, one of the con sequences of the restoration was the obliteration of trie imperial bees, and the substitution of the roy al flcur de lis Tho Locofoco organsare saying a great deal! abgnt .Democratic rconouty anu v mg ixirava iJrtco.' "The expencli(6e'of the government du ring the four years Bf'Mr' Adams' admihi'siration were $49.313,213 ; durilfg Gen Jackson's second term of four years they were 87,130,428; during Mr. 'Van Bureifs four years they were I12;188v 'C95 ; during Mr Pole's jfpur 'years they were SI 48, Q2i,402. So we senj'that Jjocojoco economy is in cpjnparaWiV more Jexpcnsiyo; -than Whig extravn gance. This. Ixqfocq economy is altogether too c stly a luxury -r plai-i people to indulge in. TIIIRTYFIRST CONGRESS. v ... FIRST SESSION. f DecembekJ 1. " The Sc7iale transacted-no business. As 'they cannot take up business till the house is organ-. ized, they merely meet and adjourn. The House proceeded with seven more trials to elect a Speaker as follows : 33d. 3Jth, 35th. 3fith, 37th, 3Slh, 3! Winthrop, 101 1UI 101 101 101 100 Drown, 80 84 8S 97 15 12. 12 .7 107 ' 0 109 - I 0 0 , 0 Boyd, Wiltnot, Gentry, Cohb, 7 t 5 5 0 0 0 4 o- 0 0 ! Morehead, 0 13 5 13 0 i scattering 15 Dec. 12. A. vote was then takei Speaker, which resulted as follows : W. J. Brown 1 12. Duer 20, Morehead 17. Stanly 18, McGau- I - 1 ghey 13, Winthrop 17, Horace Mann 5, Scattering j 18 total2-26. Necessary to a choice 114 Brown j lacked 3 of an election Tir, is. After considerable ceoate in trie Tr.,P. another .rial of strength for the choice of 1 . i i r .1 . . opeanu-i, iou iuu w..-v. .w. i .hp foltowina result: 1 , - o Winthrop ou, loud -hi, ixyu Stanly 21, Morehead 10, Bayly 0, Wihnot 4, Ste vens, 4, bcattering 'Ja. - v; , , Dec H.-r-The votes are as follows : . . 42d, 36 II 30 5i 24 0 7 43d, 25 13 AO OS 24 0 10 39 .44 th, 27 12 49 '82 22 6 6 19 Winthrop, T. Stevens, Stanlv, Boydi Potter, Wihnot, e Mo reheat!, Scattering, 00 A resolution was offered that the members re ceive no pay unlil they elect a Speaker. Anoth er that they receive no mileage unless they elect i SnonlfPr tn.mnnmv. Both these were laid on . . t, j -j. I r, - TT.,,,en l,o tnMa nnrl nmirljt milnh mnfllS (in. tllG IIOUSC adjourned. Dec. 15. In the Senate, the Hon. J. M. Ber rien, of Georgia, offered a resolution to appoint a committee to wait upon the President, and inform him that the Senate had organized, and was ready to receive any executive cummunication that he might have to transmit meaning, no doubt, nom inations and treaties. Mr. Clay rose and said that he had intended to offer a similar proposition. He stated that there were precedents which could be adduced in its fa vor. He proceeded to make a brief and eloquent speech in favor of its adoption, which was, on be ing put to vote carried. The committee was appointed by the chair, when they retired. The President informed the Senate that he would send in a communication on iwonuay. v In the House, three more trials were made to j 45th, 4fith, 47lh, 82 85' 14 30 55 67' ' 06 20 14 ' 10 22 17 - 18 8 5. 5 24 .23 27 .3 2 11 9 ,12 Boyd, Stanly, Winthrop, Potter, Morehead, : o. ! s strong. , TV , The House then adjourned to Monday. J T ' t " nV. f.. 1 1.. :..,Un .n.-iilt riUn 1nr- UKU. ll. I lie. lUUUivuiU is iuo imuiiui int. msi trial for the election of a Speaker'to-day Fifty-first Trial. Winthrop, - - . 75 Bnyd, ; ;39. Stevens, 4. 9 Morehead, 18 Potter, . i 15 Scattering, 18 224 No election. Necessary to a choice,. 113. House adjourned till to-morrow. Tije CoMsliliiliosi of California. Our readers are aware that a Constitution has been formed bv the delegates of the people of that country. The Constitution is a good one, and will j ' no doubt be accepted by the Congress of the U. I uwuuv f n ( States, when California shall ask for admission', into the Union. It embraces the best features of that of the State of New York, and is creditable to the Territor'. Besides the absolute exclusion of slavery, it provides that all officers, judicial and executive, are to be elected by the people ; the prin ciple of Homestead Exemption is established, to J ' ; be hereafter carried out by the Legislature ' lhe ' r,rorr:of, .nmpn ;c c,.rp,t m lhm in d dent of their husbands. The Legislature is suhjecl tQ vwy strinsenl IimitaUons against the conlraclion of public debts, as u is not t0 go over mQ QQQ t in case of invasion, and all issu- ing of paper money as has been before stated, by coroorations or individuals, is forbidden. In re- garci t0 the right of suffrage, though restricted to w . maIe cjlizens of lhe jjm Slates and of Mexi. . , 7 .. . , , . co, it can be given to Indians, or the descendants i of Indians in certain specified cases, by a vote of two thirds of tho Legislature. Provision is made for establishing a free school system, and there is no imprisonment for debt. No lottery is to be au thorised, nor the sale of lottery tickets allowed. The Legislative Department of California is to consist of a Senate and Assembly, the sessions to be annual, commencing on the third Monday of January, and the election of its members is to take place on Tuesday, next after the first Monday in November. Senators are to be chosen for two years and Assemblymen for ouo year. The Jus tices of the Supreme Court are to be elected at the general election, by the people, to hold iheir office six years. CSBt'Estznas Coming. The Columbus (O.) Journal states that between j wo and three hundred turkeys were driven through , t that city on Thursday last, bound for the Cincinnati market , They were from Licking. county, and traveled at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles per dav. Vary Efiesfisarliiiblc. An intelligent farmer in the town of Lowiston, related some time since a remarahle account .of the cure of a very fine horse which, m the act of j ploughing! taught his foot in a root, and tore it ; partly jff. He immediately cleaned out the dirt, and applied G. W. M.erchant's celebrated Garg ling Oil, replaced the hoof, bandaged it up tight, soaked it occasionally with the Oil, and jn two weeks he was able to use the horse. A western girl, after giving -her Ipycra hearty smack, exclaimed, "Dog my cat if you hain't been taken a little rye, old hosa." 1?- Jo ;is rates i ve m i easc-S.oli nsp" & ' WEiitilcsey. f Ttrn iVl rr.RACE OL-ESTioN.--Iieyerdy Johnson;, thegf United States Attorney-General, .has decier ljng.j. opposition to the opinion oi mr. a. .that iir. imuesev s opinion Bca.iuUiniito. all roinunei i ' v" II no fir IMI'. aiots receive mi iiiuu iuuuia, ao ..v,.i .. h'.Kvn n 1 f fo rwVrtf ' the uickiii in the ing backward and forward, t ie pickiip in uift this. I his small business, however, was .1 mifiiuy matter , - -"" : i ticians. wno arunge tne so hallds and laces. Mr. wi economjsl, j3 very proper manly judgment of the J b,mjf..uiifin U.i:Srav- nmtleseya small-minded, orlv rebuked by the more Alioniev-vjuiiciui. J-ict ui hu,u ()C?" We" venture to say that the above asser- j -jj I twtrto it'll! Vo CtMA nnlirnU? Orrfnpnil!- flht . - ! Attorney-General, in overruling MY. Whittle- sey's decision against the payment Of Construc tive Mileage, has simply decided that the certifi cate of the President of the Senate (not Mr.'Fill more, but I). H. Atcheson, President pro 'teht.) to the correctness of the Double Mileage was con clusive and' binding on the Secretary of the Sen ate, leaving that functionary no 'course but to pay over the money. Of course, if such were the true construction, the Secretary must be exculpated ; for it would be manifestly wrong to have him o bliged on the one hand to respecf sand obey the President's certificate, and on the other to bring him in a defaulter to the Treasury because of his obedience. We feel very sure that Mr. Reverdy i Johnson has not decided that the Constructive ! Mileage was originally right and lawful, but si'rri " Jo. ' ply that the Senate's Secretary, with the Piesi dent's order before him, could no't" help'paying it. Such was the opinion rendered by Attorney-General Legare in the first solitary case of Construc tive Mileage eight years ago.- The Herald dare not lei its'readers see that the Mileage in question was charged by some thirty six Members of the present Seriate for journeys they never performed some of them taking from $2,000 to S2,500 each for an imaginary pilgii'm age to their homes and back again to? Washington between the morning of Sunday March 4th '(when the last Senate closed its labors) and that of Mon day March 5th, when the present Senate assem- 'bled. By means of this Constructive Mileage,' a t parl 0f je Senators received, for the last Session f nnnress. mrlndina the feiv davsthov remained after the 4th of March, from S5.000 to '$6,000 each, while others received less than' S 1, 000. " Now either the former received -a' great deal too' much or tho latter far too little. .One way or the other, there should he a change, and H cannot be made too soon. " Constructive Mileage for Congress is a novelty. f1- The first solitary case of its allowance'occurred in 1841, and that was the Va'e of a Senator just ! transferred from the House1. In 1345,'Mr'. DallaV 1 s i , made the first decision granting it to eriators holding over from a' regular session, and attending an Extra 'Session held directly thereafter. Then a great many refused to take it, and wefe applau ded for so doing by journals on all sides ; one took it with a protest that he did not consider it legal ; but some who then refused it have since-taken if,' and the legal representatives of others have claimed it. This last time all but three ' went in ' for it. Now let it be established that' Constructive Mile age is proper and legal, and Hhere are hundreds who in person or' 'by heirs will claim it for past Extra Sessions, reaching back through a period of half a century. And then' the Herald and its rrnnfp! winch now iiislifV'lhte rhn'nop": will ri!iii;p . ... . . ". ,--". wing Administration for its extravagance in K mHl mmipv , a . - The amount of money abstracted from the Trea sury by this Constructive Mileage may seem un important, but the principle is riot sb. If 'men whom the People have paid $2000 each for a journey to and from Washington that never cost them S300 are to be justified in helping them- selves to an additional 82,000 each for a j jouiney never made, who can rationally hope for Retrench ment, Economy and Reform in the 'National Ex penditures? Who does not see that Uie whole' action of Congress must be tainted by1 such a mis appropriation? Mr. Whittlesey, we infer; is to be overruled, and the Constructive Mileage retained by the Sons ators who pocketed it. We deeply regret this, but it is manifestly no fault of the faithful and fear less officer who endeavered to recover it for the Treasury. We hear that the Senate propose to reject his nomination as Controller because of his decision. Well, if they Vee-fit to provoke1 further discussion of the whole matter, wo certainly shall not complain. The people, we are canfident, will not permit a faithful public servant to be crushed merely because of his fidelity.' If they cfo,rit we're better at once to abolish all Contruflers a'nd Aud itors, letting every roan who chooses drive a cart and oxen through the Treasury and load up at discretion N. Y. Tribune. Houcsty off Officeholders. The Tribune's Washington correspondent has seen, a list of twenty-four defaulters in sums, vary ing from. $22,000 to under $100, whose accounts have been transmitted from a single Bureau to the Solicitor of the 1 reasury for suit. T his list, i,e aj(jS w l,e largely augmented by the, names 0f oliiers m wi be sent t0 llie Solicitor in a few days from other accounting Bureaus, those to which he has alluded having come principally from the Fouith Auditor's Department !-:. Gen. Harrison's Grandson ,Jilled.--C apt. Mar cy, o'f the ,5th Infantry, writes tq Washington from. Fort VVachita, 6th ult , that Lt. "Montgomery Pike Harrison, (grandson- of tho late 'President.) tops' killed by Indians near the Colorado river, in Texas on the 7ih of October Inst.., He had, ridden out from camp on the afternoon of, that day alone,, for. the purpose of ascertaining the, proper road. No ..; ! i ... i . . 1 1 f.,rT.T. . muians were suppusea to no near, " no was found pierced in many places- with -nrflrfwsf, and shot, as is supposed, with his . own pistol. - ? Mr. McElra'th, qf the New T?QfkTr$ine.$& others, have funned an associatibh'fijl effifmihwi purposes in tlw vicinity of Piv?sl3?g?'"' 5 ' f me i uu. ivKmj un.:..i I .:cl,..rr fh.'e ,,foJ.- nnd incnltnrl in thn trium. 01 the boc uloco partv. to Kee: this men.irn hank gress. . It w,U be recollecieu .am. " ; - - - " " " ' ; i the next Legislature living a pr lanze J refused o pay over uie sum, , U.l ;,r MHSWV ti Mm Ifirs of (he Senate. WhlCil ' ...I' t, -.for,,l ,;n ,m..nnt tn nnnrlu :,, ., J ' L: .... . aSBUlUIJ, lih l,c"in" -- aiS?ra , "M'V"' ? s ' j .. iev inwiK u auogewier more pontic anu prudent to "V had been authorized by Mr. Dickens, Secretary -i.l 'Vnll nn il,n rnnntv. nil of which let 'thn suhinrt nass wilhmit nv nn.i,o lh,. -V. 109 ! eT Generair,ndUhe ! ims decided "Z Mile- our tax payees will have to pay, and all of which Should it be mtrojlured and discussed they would . Attornev-uenerai, ami ie ims uu iut.u nni 1 1. i - , ,-, . .. T r be hold resnonsib e as the oartv in thn m.iinrirv i a-oe is reaular and lefeal, and must ue, paioanq nas-Ueen entailed .upon us'uy tne spirit 01 j,oco.o- f . , moncr " A' nflIV' r "i 3iosaiii .Carbon Hio& CasiFff CarboniDolls, inSvhich a person 'was killed. IThe l?g'1: -tbr"tlgirtg b(QfIcsfJfened''??b v'apbns cansss unlil lhe present Curt,, took place at Or- the party assailed by meA .employed ort the Read i ingi Road, was trumped up. by members of the y r , . f j r ; bul fusljcQ h?is bep() trumphant, and the-, Whi.ss, . who it wasproved.actedin self-defence only, (and ..... v . :. one of whom was badly beaten) were fully ac quitted. The .real rioters, the Locofoco portion, will be tried, and the evidence, from what we learn, is of such, a -character that, there is every proba- ' bility thnt tjiey will be convicted. Locofocoism has been a "dear whistle to Schuylkill county, and the s,oonej the, people, and., .tax payers throw it.off effectually . and -forever, the better.it will be for their pockets and the peace o.f.the community. ,. We. will state, that .the.ey.idence elicited on the trial,., proved that, Mr. Johnson,. who was killed in the -.affray,, was struck on. ,the head bv an Irish man of. his own-party with a .club, who fled the next morning) r Miners' Journal. 'Very 'Naughty. The Boston Herald heard an abolitionist say, the other day, ''that he wished the' Lord would raip down the gun cotton prepara tion on the cotton fields of the South, let it dry in, and then send down a shaft ot lightning to blow up the whole country to glory !" Hold him ! This drug is the juice v hich exudes from inci sions made, in the heads of ripe poppies, and ren dered conciete by exposure to the sun. The best opi'i.m r.mes from Turkey, the East India kind is not so good. Good, opium is hard when cold, but becomes soft when-worked ifitthe hands. It.has a strong offensive smell, and is, .very , bitter to the taste ; proof spirit digested from opium, forms laud anum. Opium has been long known as a deadly and dangerous narcotic ; it has been supposed that the sopprjfic effects of opium depended on morphia, but in. 100. parts of the best Turkish ppiumronjy seven per cpnt, of morphia can be extracted ; but morplila is npt,more poisonous than opium. Ure believes that , the deleterious activity of opium is due . to .its union of an oleate or.margarate of narco tine with morphia. , 'Opium, is a sJov,and rapid pojson. People can accustom themselves to it, and be able to, eat. as much as might. destroy,, the lives of three or .four at one dose, who were unaccustomed. tu.it. Opi urn drunkenness is. a horrible vice ,ofl the Turks and Chinese. Its drunken dreams are pleasing-, bul thery irevcal terrible resujt3-.,i,.Thei habit .uf opi um eating is perhaps 4Uiq most (ajnge,r(msof all oth ers, the most alluring, the mos't difficult to break . It is said that , a grvcat increase in the cqnsurnp tiop, of.opium has takgiijplace in Amricaekpeci ally, itn the Eastern. States, withi,n..;thev past,se(y.en years, and its votaries ,aie found principally amorig our women. Tt is a vice which should be.frawqqd down by-every personrri.t isa drunkenness more deadlvandicious than that.of spirits.in any -shape. 5' &eiy rVa1rae!y off CoUoti. A new kind of cotton has' bceh Tn'troduced in Tennessee, called the "Golden Boll." . It isa na tive ofCcnt'ral America.' ,'Thc following descrip- lion is given of it : '"ThVaverane height' of the stalks was about fohf and a half feel, plniited four feet apart. The distinguishing-properties, which characterize this description of cotton are its prolific production, the long silky texture of its fibre, and the astonishing ly large size and great number of bolls. Several of the plants had from one hundred and twenty to one hundred, and thirty, of which from sixty to 1 eighty were fully matured, ten of which, being fre I qneriflv 'tested by scales', weighed four and a half ounce's of seed cotton. The bolls that did not reach full maturity of size all opened, and are yet opening, yielding cotton apparently of as good quality, but not of the same amounts, as the more early bolls." Tlic Oilier Side of t5te Pictnre. - Gold: Scarce in California. Tho following ex tract from a private letter from a perfectly teliablo source has been kindly furnished the Tribune for publication. The writer is himself at the mines : "You will be disappointed in the amount of gold sent by this steamer, but not more so than we have been by the result of our labors during the last mpnth in the mining districts The forco on' the ground is variously estimated from 40.000 to 50.000, who have 'obtained perhaps in all $1, 000,000 or but little more than an average of one dollar per diem to each man. This is not satisfac tory 'to you at home, but still less so to us here, but the truth is that the surface gold is rapidly disappearing, and although we have faith that the subterranean deposites are large, yet not having the capital or other requisites for deep mining. To this complexion we must come at last, like all the South American States in which gold is found. California must be dug up wide and deep if we hope for a golden harvest. Goods of nearly all descriptions are very low. Every body is anx ious -to return, so you may look out for a hegira of those who, have means to pay their passage. Thos. B. King, of Georgia, has resigned his Beat in the Hou3e,of Representatives. The res ignation was received a few days ago, at Wash jngtcjfi .by Mr. Winthrop, enclosed in a letter from California. Mr King seems to have assumed that Mr. W: wolild be Speaker, The California News announces by authority that Mr. King.eonsjders himself settled in that Territory. A E&asigea'GMS Spree. About 2 o'clock Saturday morning says the N, Y. Tribune, officer Kab'drlunzie. of "tho First Ward, brought to the Station a man whom he lound cruizing about, Greenwich. Htreet, having bjiiidlpssession ,$85 .casha bag of .gold dgst weighing about 25 pour.ds (so'sas the Police He 0ortVa'ndl36 sWU lumps ofgold. He was a pas senger by tlie Crescent City, Sncl may thank the officer, that; ho was, not robbed. ' il.t JBqstpn Municipal !?fct)n.r-The AYhi&filec ted aheir candidates hut Monday Jn every VVard. Mayor Bigelow was' rp 'elected bv 4600 1.07a JnVJlHfflSrt - - r. Election of Judges by llie People. 5. OQr.Locofoc6N friends, the editors of the Demo cratic Union; and the Keystone, are as silent as the grave in regard to that ereat Democratic measure. 'Uhe election. of Judacs by the People. We hear. also.-that it lias neen pmntely determined by the , wire workers anrl Legislative tricksters and borers , gfl t) ;1Jo j and thus confirm in practice1 ' what they preach upon the rostrum, silence has , eqn aopied as the hest policy We wish the ; people, therefore, to understand the true Dositinn of the majority whom they have honored with their confidence in the oresont Lenislaturn. Thfrn ! ate agencies at work in the ' secret conclaves at , Harnsburg. which they little understand. Legis- I ai on s here cut and driet t.P.forP.hnnrl anrt nil . - - v VM the lines of party tactics marked out for the ses- i sion with the precission of square and trianole. i In this secret and underhand arrangement of the few who manage all tle affairs of the party, the great popular measure of tho election of Judges by the People was the first to be proscribed. The reason of this is obvious. A large majority of the Judges now in office, are, or have been, active members of the Locofoco party, and no doubt using the influence of their high position to ad vance tlie interests of their political friends-- Un til the election of the present Executive, the ine quality of division was much ureater than.it is even now, there being,,prior to that time, hut one singie Whig upon the Bench in the whole State, out of more than thirty Judicial Districts, and upwards of one hundred Judges The Locofocos of;' Pennsylvania are not mate rially different from their more aristocratic com peers of " Old Virginia They are all agog for popular Reforms and popular privileges, when they can reasonably hope to augment ;their power by securing them, but under no other circumstances. Consequently the Election of Judges by the Pen pie, it is a very nice and a very profitable thing for them to talk about before the peoble on the eve of an election, but a thing to be utterly eschewed, and " incontinently thrust under the table" when it comes to discussing it in the Legislature. Hero they would be called upon for action as well as words, and action which would be consistent with former pledges would result in the loss of the Judicial power, and the many fat offices and great political influences connected with it. We would now say to the Whig members of the Legislature, that whatever may be the course of our opponents, you have also a duty to perform in reference to this important measure, and we trust it will not be disregarded. You are in the minor ity, it is true, but you can, nevertheless, hold the dominant party up to their engagements with the people upon this and other great questions, and the great Whig constituencies of lhe State wi ll tolerate no dereliction whatever in this respect. It is the duty of Whig members to urge this mea sure forward with as much zeal and spirit as though they held the majorities in the two houses. Let our opponents understand that they can' tako the responsibility of defeatingit in open day, if they choose, but ihat they cannot smother it in caucus. Show them that though we constitute but a minor ity of the Assembly, wc will yet watch over and protect the rights and liberties of the People---Every man should consider himself a sentinel upon the outer, walls of the citadel, and be, ready it) sound the alarm upon the slightest approach of dnnyer, whether from the siv, insidious and covert machinations of an unseen and apparently passive tre ichpry.ror the imhjji and daring assaults ot a more determined aiuldespeirate opposition. .,,.- - Harrisburg Telegraph. Cratchss S?S32secessary Mr. Yerger of Philadelphia has invented an . ar tificial leg, which, for ingenuity and efncacy,-has never been equalled lt is made entirely of steel, and in such a manner that the motion of the knee, and of the joints of the ankle and foot are.prpduced. The loss of a leg will be only, a trifling one, now that so excellent a substitute can be furnished. The Louisville Courier states that Adams and Co.'s (formerly Allen's) pork house. in that city, slaughtered 1.740 hogs, packed 584 barrels pork, rendered 332 barrels iard, and bulked nearly 100, 000 lbs. meat all in nine hours actual work,' on the 2Sth u'.t. The hogs were not very large, only averaging 215 pounds net. IDistresaiaig Occurrence. It becomes our du'V ibis week u record ono of ihe most melancholly events which has ever occurred in our town: -Our fellow citizen, Mr. Thomas Oliver an enterpriing business man and wonhy member of society, was found dead on Friday erecting last, in ihe garret of his dwelling house, appa renily having put an end u his own life. He left his storn, a- wo learn, tn the after noon about two n't lock, complaining of not'bo ing well, and thai he had tint slept well the night pienoih, a was .supposed, to gp home and lie down He went home, went up stairs and was not secn afterwards tin ill found as above siatrd. It seems that ho went initnodiatelv to tho garret, took off his com and hat and laid them upon a lu-d, pulled aside tho carpet which wa upon the floor and kneeling, with a razor, held in his right hand, ho made an incision on the left side of his neck which severed the princi pal artery, and which mint have caused his death in two or three minutes after lhe act was commtted When found, he was lying partly upon his face, wuh one aim under him and tho other exiended, apparently having fallen for ward from a kneeling posiure. No cause ia yet assigned for ihe act. Mr. Oliver had been in businoss in Mauch Chunk for ten or twelve years,. and duringlhat lime, had mainiaineil a good reputation as a per fectly upright, systematic and puntual businesa man; huch was his repmation aUo with, thoe with whom ho deah in ihe ciiyT In his social relations, he had no enemies what could have been the motive which aciuaie'd Turn, if Mine, to eommti tho ari must ever - remain a mystery unless in HXHounauon of his papers it is found revealedfby himself i . . . Thndicpasc(l lefUa w'tfo and a voung and. wng lattu.y piwiuwu mojim. 1 sudden heren-.'e.i.ear, wuh Avhom their . numcr- oms friends deeply -smpahi7.c. Carbon County 'Gazette, ' .W'JijriHor ffdm California who3 arriv.ofi fa jhe Ohuicano. up; on t,he Hendrta-JIudaCj, Capt. KiiUe last nigtii't with gold boulder? and tiustijn bus iruttk. w.o.nh over $30,000, Vhe re sult of a yoark l.ihor 'and traffic in California Ho went,' wo Understand, from SvracHie. Alb. Eis. Mr. - - I 4 J KL kr&u ft
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