JE'FFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN -For Uie Joflbisuniau Republican. J21 ilea lion. We have said that the social and moral evils of society grow out of a wrong system of education otitoT an incomplete development of man's phys icalfintellectual, and moral nature. We must look to the cause of the evil for its remedy to a right system of education to correct the evils of the wrong., ..Men -often say.-4,-'rhevorld is full of errors the foundation of society rests on an en tirely wrong basisand needs reforming, but where shall we begin our reformation 1" Nature teach es us that the tender sapling can be easily trained into a perfect tree; while the "auld gnarled oak" that lifts its giant arms on high, and strikes its roots deep into the heart of the earth, must wither in its proud deformity, unless blasted at once by LT'Mr. James Power, late banal Uommis- j uie lightnings of Heaven. Deeply rooted preju sioner of this State, died at Allegheny Gity, on dices cannot be easily overcome, but one valiant Thursday, May 23, 150. ILT Among the recent confirmations at Wash ing ton,' we notice that of Anthony E. Roberts. Esq. Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Sunday, the 12ih inst. For California. Daniel Black, Thomas Wilson, Isaac Zane, Levi Cfark and Charles -0 sterstock, left Easton on Sunday, the 12th inst., for New York, ,lo take passage for California. 5 The Legislature. This body adjourned sine die on Wednesday last at 12 o'clock, after one of the most protracted and stormy sessions we have had for many years. A large amount of legislation was done, upwards of five hundred acts having been passed, most o them private and unimportant bills, and amongst them, no doubt, many of a very pernicious charac ter. Amongst the public and most most important acts, are the following : The General Appropriation bill. The Apportionment bill. The Revenue bill. The billl for the election of A nditor General, Surveyor General and County Surveyors. The bill for the election "of Duputy Prosecuting Attorneys. The General Bank bill a crude and ridiculous humbug. The bill relative to the amendment of the Con stitution for the election of Judges by the peo ple. These-are the most important laws passed. The Apportionment Bill will be found in another column. Theiranolticr J have, for poor silly man, Translates justice "an eye for an eye :M But the spirit of justice their verdict o'erran In dooming the culprit to die. I have many co-workers-court, falchion, and slug, Cause me coffins to order, and graves to be dug. I noticed, Mr. Editor, in your paper of two weeks since, the following apt hit, taken from the Paterson Intelligencer, " A man will be chocked to death in this town next Tuesday, by authority of the communiiy ; and we see no special objec tion against announcing a fact like this before its actual occurrence." Again, Corporeal punishment in our navy is an other crying wrong to man. Brute force applied to man, as a punishment, cultivates his animal, not his moral nature. 1 see that in the statistics of one of our best conducted naval shipsj during two years' cruise, the number of lashes had increased, each month, through the whole voyage, in a four-fold ra tio ! Flogging men our noble, gallant Tars who peril thir lives for the honor and glory of our coun try and to supply us with the comforts, and lux uries of life is too outrageously barbarous, to monllnn tuitti tlo loct Aonroo n C nllnurnripo For our benefit, 41 High on the slipp'ry bending mast They wreathe the snow-white sail They fear no angry, threat'ning blast The lightning or the gale." There are many other crying sins which must be corrected before man's social and moral improve ment will keep pace with his advancement in the arts and sciences : but the progress of a new sys tern must always be slow. Mind can not break away at once from old associations. It is only by acquiring confidence in the operation of new prin ciples, that it will be prepared to take another step forward in the noble cause of Human Improve ment. Here, good and evil are never disjoined ;-old views will mingle with the new ; old ideas, which we wish to banish, will adhere to the old words to which they were formelv attached ; and the sud den and entire eradication of lo'ng-rooted errors would be equivalent to the creation of a new in tellect; but Truth is mighty and must ultimately prevailed over Error; then, and not till then, will the Love principle, instead of the Force principle, stand acknowledged by, and govern all mankind. " Quod scriptum, scriptum." (I have written, what I have written.) To you, Mr. Editor, as the Chinese say, " my thanks shall be immortal." P. S. W. The IVext Presidency. There is no lack of aspirants on the Locofoco side of the house for the Presidential honors. Gen. Cass, though twice defeated onre at Balti more and again all over is again an expectant ; James Buchanan has his advocates ; General Jo seph Lane is coming home from Oregon to be pla ced upon ihe track; Gov. Marcy is by no means averse to becoming a candidate ; Gen. Wool is spoken of by some, and Levi Woodbury, though not formally proposed, is earnestly thought of. The South, as yet, have no candidate. The most that any of them aspire to, is to " advance," as Mr. Foote did recently, toward the Vice Presi dent's chair. The Florida Indians. The intelligence from Tampa Bay, to the 2Gth ult., Gen. Twiggs and staff were about to leave for summer quarters at Pensacola. The troops were being gradually re moved to more healthy points. Bowlegs and Sam Jones with their bands had lied to the Big Cypress Swamp. It was rurrured that Gen. Twiggs was about to resign his command. Afrs Frances Sergeant Osgood, well known throuhout the country by her beauuful poetic contributions io ihe various literary magazines, died at her residence in New York last mon day evening, at the age of 40 years. She was ihe wife of Ar. S. S. Osgood, ihe portrait pain ter who had recently returned from a visit io California, and the daughter of Air. Locke, a Boston merchant. The Way Mayor Barker does it. In Pittsburg, on Wednesday last, two sisters were brought before Afayor Barker, in a beast ly stale of intoxication. The xMayor sent for the man who sold the liquor, and imposed up on him two $5 flues. Great Trout Fishing;. The Sussex Herald stales that it has receiv ed a despatch from "Squire Vandegroff," in which he ays that "on the 17th of April, he look off the Wawayanda Double Pond, in Ver non, N. J. J4 trout of ihe following dimens-inn: one of them measured 22 inches, weight 4 lb. Oounces, one do. 18 inches, weight 3 pounds 1 1 ounces ; one do 2 pounds 10 ounces; jhe bal ance none less ihan a foot," champion of Light, Truth, and Love, God aiding, can vanquish a thousand Demons of Darkness, Terror, and Force; tivo put ten thousand to flight; and three drive a hundred thousand from the field of battle. "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." Of course then begin with the young, who are ca pable of appreciating and practising the most ex alted virtues. Again, we cannot blame our Creator, for God has pronounced all his works perfect : the fault then must be in man. Wo, in these United Slates, all know that the governments of the earth are not suited to man's nature, as a progressive, free agent. Monarchs check freedom of speech, and the liberty of the press: do all they can to keep their subjects in ig norance; trammel them with a national religion, which begets intolerance, superstition, bigotry, and a long train of the greatest evils; and grind them to dust with tithes and taxes to support the few who live in luxury, idleness, and splendor. Of course the force principle must keep such a peo ple in subjection. We all believe, at least the people of this coun try, that a Republican form of government only is adapted to man's nature, as a progressive, moral being. Here, freedom of speech and the liberty of the press the bulwarks of a Republic are en joyed. Here, aer religions are tolerated now; each person can worship God, as he thinks right. He is not now obliged to make himself a hypocrite to swear to what he believes a lie in order to obtain civil or ecclesiastical preferment. Repub- j lican governments contain the germ of universal freedom. Their principles must overturn tyran ny, superstition, intolerance, and bigotry, till the whole world is entirely revolutionized, and man kind learn to live and act as brethren. "Freedom! Freedom! is the answering shout of Nations, starting from the spell of years." And t when this shall be realized, the miserable serf of Philadelphia City, Kussia will become an equal with the present ,. 41 County hanghtv lord of the soil : and then, in a word, will Montgomery, - t all r.iml nnnmxim, rm.v . tester anu Delaware, Berks, Again, are the same civil and criminal laics suit- j )3ucj.s' ed to governments so entirely antagoniMical in Lancaster and Lebanon, their nature as Monarchies and Republics 1 : Dauphin and Northumberland, Our glorious Republic has alreadv solved to the ' Northampton and Lehigh, 1 jj-- 11. l r Carbon, Monroe, ayne and Pike, wondering and admiring world-to the terror of Adama 'ftnd Fran.,in Monarchs, and to the joy of their subjects the , York, great problem of self-government. Capital pun- . Cumberland and Perry, ishment is no better adapted to our present ad vanced state of society than Judaism it is a law of force it had its origin in a barbarous condition of society, and was the mode then best adapted to the comprehension of an unenlightened neonle fnr a , -ir , it- redressing Wrong-as was the Religion of the , e.rcer I,an? " en' , , T , . , , , , 6 , Erie and Crawford, same people, of the kind they could appreciate, Butler, Beaver and Lawrence, literal, but typical of a pure and spiritual worship. 1 Allegheny, Centuries having rolled round, and men's minds I Washington and Greene, having become better adapted to a higher, purer Bedford and Somerset, u- .u o . it . l , t r . . Armstrong, Indiana and Clarion, worshiD. the Creator, "spii iHp hmhinooa nf hi T - , . -,. . ' f- 1 J - vtititiOtJ s t 1 J i O own glory, the express image of his person" to re veal to man his increased moral obligations ; and Christ's whole mission from the time when all heaven rang with hallelujahs of " Glory to God in the highest ," and the angelic hosts responded, in a grand chorus, "Peace on earth ! good will to men!" to the latest moment o! his agonizing death, j Apportionment Bill. The following is the Apportionment Bill, as passed by both branches of the Legislature. We annex to the Districts the number of taxables in i each for future reference : , Senators. T.ixablcs. o 3 1 1 Lycoming, Sullivan, Centre & Clinton, 1 Blair, Cambria and Huntingdon, 1 Luzerne, Columbia and Montour, 1 Bradford, Susquehanna & Wyoming, 1 Tioga, Potter, McKean, Elk, Clear field and Jefferson, 1. Eleclioai of Officers. A meeting of the Delaware arid Rariton Ca nal Company was held on the JOih inat., at their office at Princeton Baiin, when an election for officers was held, w'nh ihe following result ; Preideru, 11. F. Stockton; Treasurer, James Neilsori ; Secretary, John R. Tompson ; Di rectors, Robert F. Siockton, Richard Stockton, Garriet D. Wall, James Parker, James Neileon, Jas. S. Green, James Potter, John R. Thomp son, John C. Stevens. Juniata, Mifflin and Union, Westmoreland and Fayette, Schuylkill, R EPRESENl AT1VES. Adams, 1 Allegheny, Bedford and Cambria, Berks, Bucks, . wasamission-notofterrorand force-but of love Blair and Huntingdon, - ana mercy, unnsi s aeain was tne grand climax ! Bradford, not only of the sublime and eternal law of pro gress, but also of the Love principle Love to God and man." Is a Christian Community governed by the Love principle when it requires "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" and life for life ? No, it overcomes evil with, the increased evil of mur der and revenge ; and consequently presents fur ther motive for the commission of crime. As the punishment, in itself, is not adapted to the condi tion of man as a moral being, it is a violation of a moral law. Men conversant with the subject know that crime has advanced in society in an increased ratio with the number of victims. The reason is obvious ; the remedy is not adapted to the dis ease, and of course, the result must prove fatal. Moral remedies, arid moral remedies alone, are adapted to moral diseases. Should we not think it a great absurdity, were a physician to try to cure a fever by whipping his patient And is it not equally absurd to think that moral evils can be Chester, Cumberland, Centre, Clearfield, Elk and McKean, Clarion, Armstrong and Jefferson, Columbia and Montour, r. Dauphin, i cured by physical punishment? Shall a Christian I community, who profess to be governed by the 1 laws "That ve resist not evil: love vour enemies! porung 10 be issued by the Farmers' Bank, at ! do sood t0 them that hale vou. bo not OTerf,nmR J ' ... v of evil, but overcome evil with good," go back to Judaism for such laws as require "blood for blood." j Let those who are everlastingly ringing in our ears j Genesis 9th Chapter. Gth verse, to prove that it is right to kill a man who has "shed man's blood," turn to Ezekiel, 20th chapter,, 25th verse. But says one this refers to the ceremonial "statutes" of the Jews only. But we demand your authority for declaring that this passage refers to the ceremonial law that to the moral; that this "was given expressly to the Jews, and that for the government of all mankind in all future ages that this is abolished, and that is binding on all mankind ; for without such authority from the Book itself, we are willing to be governed by the Laws of Christthat is, the Love principle. " Old Death" in the song says. "And if J sometimes ct with such powerful sway, Over man in his bad feeli ng mood,'' As to prompt him to murder, to takr lifo away, 'Tis because that mv trade's understood. Look out. We have been shown an altered note, pur- Wantage, N. J. ihe execution is bad. The word "Farmers" is evidently substituted, as also ihe word " Wantage.' The fcignature, date, &c , are clumsy, and stamp the writer as too illiteiaie for his "profession." XO3 Our opinion is that ihe .President s dai ly gaining ground in the confidence and affec lionaf ihe Whig Members of Congress,, ihe Wjiig pany,.and the people generally. They knew him boforc as brave and honest ,; ihy be liero him now .10 be .capable and wise." No matter what elections, may seem to indicate in ihe present cfoss-sea of .slavery perplexity, we belipo ;G,e,n. Taylor grows stronger uuhe pub- oeupo Me.n. 1 ay 10 grows strong Jj confidence daily. Tribuue. A publication has been jnade, giving, as far as,fcarrbe ascertained, .the .name, .residence and postiiffice of.erery practising lawyer in the.Uni ted SaitH. The cailic.M list shows that Uwrc are mm cei hou-.tnd five bundled Delaware, Erie, Washington, Greene; Franklin, Indiana, Lycoming, Clinton and -Potter" Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh and Carbon, Luzerne, Monroe and Pike, Mercer, Venango and Warren Crawford, vf-gsn Mifflin, !'; -i; Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, y Philadelphia City, v Philadelphia County, Somerset, Scuylkill, it 5 2 4 3 3 o 2 3 o 1 1 3 1 o AS 1 2 o 1 o lad 1 O 5 1 2 2 1 3 . o ma 1 3 o 1 1 4 11 1 . 9. Susquehanna, Sullivan.&'yyomng,. 2 lloKa.. Wayne, Westmoreland and Fayette, Union and Juniata, York, 1 1 4 o 3 20,730 51,551 13,516 20,030 10,262 13,151 28,552 12,338 16,191 12,102 14,00 13,060 12,009 13,449 13,408 17,619 17,827 13,934 14,099 16.564 17,658 28,547 14,476 11,210 16,703 11,634 19,229 12,867 5,619 28,547 9,928 16,262 13,151 17,658 9,766 8,569 14,769 7,551 4,946 4,729 13,795 6,721 7,683 5,267 8,434 10,029 4.44 8,386 5,530 9,080 22,844 5,708 11,028 10,898 3.985 14,199 8;130 3,172 13,516 8,908 4,655 4,455 22,730 54,554 4,924 12,867 9,027 5,237 4,385 19.229 8.462 13,060 INVASION OF CUBA. Correspondence of the P;i. inquirer. Washington, May 12, 1850. The account in yesterday's New York Sun of the departure of the expedition against Cuba from New Orleans has caused a good deal of conversa tion here. The Sun, however, does not state the matter precisely as private letters received in this city give it. From reliable authority I learn that four vessels full of armed men have actually cleared from New'' Orleans iheir destination being Cuba; and that Gen. Quitman is the Commander in Chief of the forces Gen. Lopez being second in command. Of course this force is wholly inadequate to make, by itself, any serious demonstration upon Cuba, but General Lopez, when in this city, some weeks ago, expressed the utmost confidence that not only all the Creole population would immedi ately rise, and join the " Patriots," but that four fifths of the army would declare in favor of the movement. I am acquainted with the several gentlemen from this city, who it is said, have sailed with the ex pedition. Whether they have or have not, one thing is certain, that they were connected with the Round Island affair, and have left here for the South within a few weeks. The expedition has been conducted with the greatest secresy. .Nearly all tne leaamg men 01 the South are more or less privy to it, and have aided it pecuniarly. TJie great object of the South is to try and have Cuba ready to enter the Union at the same time California does, and thus keep up the " balance of power." ElTorst were made, when the expedition was first thought of, to try and procure the services of Senator Jefferson Davis, of Missippi, as comman der in-chief. Mr. Davis is a graduate of West Point, and is a hichly scientific military man. lie, however, positively reiuseo. uen. worm was business, witmn nve days, to v:t, on the 9th of then applied to, and the agreement concluded not broken off for want of funds, as has been sta- TlifcJ APFORTIOIVillEIVT BII.I,. Message' of Gov. Johnston His ueil sous for Approving If To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen: The Kill entitled an "An Act to fix the number of Senators and Representatives and form the State into Districts in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution," has received my approval, and, therewith, become a law. I have signed this bill with great reluctance, and feel that a brief statement of the peculiar circum stances in which I have been placed will furnish satisfactory reasons for my action thereon. " The constitution requires the apportionment of the State to be made by the present Legislature ; that duty was the most important devolving upon your honorable bodies, and its omission would have been a gross wrong to the people whose con fidence in your wisdom and patrioism had indu ced them to invest you with the powers and trusts of Representatives. A failure to perform this oath-bounded obligation would have produced 'wide spread excitement and alarm, and would, if the voice of passion and prejudice was heard and obeyed, have resulted in great outrage to the peace and prosperity of our beloved commonwealth. It is fair to presume, that for some valid reason, a bill for the purpose or districting the State was delayed in its presentation to me until the 4th day of April last, being a period of three months and four days after the meeting of the Legislature. This bill I could not approve, and to prevent any unnecessary oeiay in rne transaction of the public April. 1 returned the same to the House of Repre sentatives, in which it originated, with mv obiec- tea uen. vortn s aeam 01 course, upsei mis ar- 110ns oetanea, in as succinci a lorm as it was pos rangement. When Gen. Worth died, Gen. Quit- sible for me to put them. From that time until man was solicited to take the command, and I un- the Mth day of May, being a period of more than (lerstana. ne nas aone so, ana saiieu wun me ex- one montn, no omer 0111 ior a similar purpose was pedition. He is a brave man, out no Knowledge presented to the r.xi of military science The expedition is fraught with danger, and un Tesss Gen. Lopez is correct as to the disaffection of the troops, and in which I place but little faith, must be regarded as Quixotic in the extreme. The handful of men who have engaged in the en terprise will, 1 am afraid, fall an easy prey to the ferocity of the cruel Spaniards. Spain has now congregated in Cuba the whole strength of her ar my and navy, commanded by her ablest general. What possible chance can a few hundred, or even thousand, undisciplined men have in a conflict with such a powerful and well organized force as they will have to contend against. Add to this the horrors which must ensue, even if the 'patriots' are partially successful, from the arming of the ne groes, as is contemplated by the Spanish Govern ment in that case, and a scene of terror presents itself-too frightful to contemplate. The horrors of San Domingo would be re-enacted. 3Iorc of the Cuba Expedition. OUR GOVERNMENT MOVING. Letters from Washington states I hat ihe Government have transmitted orders by tele graph o New York, Mobile, and New Orleans, to send expresses at once to the Gulf squadron. directing these forces to capture the Lopez ex pedition, which has sailed for Cuba. A despatch to the New Yoik Express say: "The Spanish Minister, Don Calderon do la Barcaron, demanded the inteiference of ihe ecutive department. At four o'clock yesterday evening, within less than 24 hours of the time fixed by both branches of the Le gislature for final adjournment, the act now under consideration was presented to me, thus allowing the Executive less than half a day for the consid eration of a measure to the deliberation and con struction whereof a co-ordinate branch of the gov ernment had devoted, among other less important measures, upwards of four months. 1 was thus suddenly called upon either to ap prove the bill presented to me, or by refusal, per mit the great constitutional injunction, requiring the apportionment to be made at this session, to be neglected and disregarded, or, as an extreme measure, to call together the Assembly by Proc lamation, to enable them to perform a constitu tional duty, the obligation whereof they knew ex isted at the time of their adjournment. I believed that a refusal to sign the bill might be productive of great injury to the Commonwealth, disturb the peace of the communiiy, spread con fusion and outrage over the land, and possibly do violence to the great charter of our liberties. The rc-assembling, by Proclamation, of the present Legislature might, and most probably would, have resulted in the adoption of no practical measures: while the moneys of a tax-burthened people would be unnecessarily consumed. I had most distinctly informed the Legislature of the inequalities of the former bill. I had sug gested doubts of the constitutionality of its provi sions, and had expressed a decided disapprobation of the policy of connecting counties in forming Rep- ... ... w, rooantQliro rllctrirtc tliftn nL. -".. r .t . Government to nrevent thfi arming nf mnn niul t : r ui: : .. 7 1 e ; u w ihe fitting out of expeditions against Cuba The Minister is convinced that the rumors in the main are true, that vessels have been fit ted out, and that five or six thousand men are engaged in the expedition, rendezvousing at the Island of Lobos. General Taylor has respon ded to the call of ihe Ambassador, by forwar ding despatches 10 the Culf Squadron, to see that ihe flag of the country is not violated. Many distinguished men of the South are char ged with conniving at this expedition, but it seems impossible thai neutrality should be thus viola ted." A Washington correspondent of the same pa per, wriies : 1 have seen a letter to-day from Bridgetown, (Parbadoes,) from an official source, which throws a flood of light on the myterioua manoeu vres of ihe so colled Cuba expedition. If the statement in this letter be true, this affair will be more extensive and comprehen sive than you are aware of, and no I think you will be ready to acknowledge it before long. 1 he writer says: "Cuba, Barbadoe8, Jamaica, and Hayii are, beyond all manner of doubt, desiined 10 change iheir rulers, and ere another letter from me may reach you, ihe terrible work (for terrible it will be) will have commenced." in ii in tii ic. The Boston papers announce thai Mr. Glid- don is about 10 unwrap in lhai city the cejebrar led Jgypuan mummy in his possession. lie places lis commercial value at $1,500, and has issued 300 tickets at $5 each, 10 remunerate him for ihe mummy, as the unwrapping des troys its principal value. The mummy is the body of a high priest of Thebes, who lived more trjan 3000 years ago, or about ihe lime of Moses, iir. Gliddon expecis 10 find in ihe Sarcophagus ihe funeral ring, and the papyri .containing the hieroglyphical book of ihe dead. The mummy is 10 be unwrapped in ihe pres ence ot mo inosi distinguished Savans of Bos ion The Compromise. The Report of ihe Committee of the U. S. Senate, appointed to digest a plan for the setile ment of the vexed question?, which is supposed 10 be alienating ihe feelings of ihe people of the North and the South, and nourishing the seeds of disunion, has been published, and ihe loa ding points are just now attracting a consider able degree of public aiteniion. For the bene fit of our readers we subjoin a summary of the Commitiee's scheme of Compromise. The views and Recommendations contained in the Report are briefly ihese 1 The admission of any new Slate or States formed out of Texas to be postponed uniil they shall hereafter present themselves to bo re ceived into the Union, when it will bo the du ty of Congress fairly and faithfully to execute the compact with Texas by admitting such new Stale or Slates. 2. The admission forthwith of California in to the Union, with ihe boundaries which she has proposed. 3. The establishment of terriiorial governments, without the Wilmoi proviso, for New Mexico and Utah, embracing all ihe territory recently acquired by the United biaies from Mexico noi contained hi ihe boundaries of California. 4. Ihe combination of these two last men tioned measures in the same bill. 5. The establishment of the Western and Norihern boundary of Texas, and ihe exclusion from her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with ihe grant o Texas of a pecuniary equivalent. And ihe section for thai purpose to be incor porated the bill, admitting California, and establishing Territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico. 6. More effectual enaclmenis of Taw to secure ihe prompt delivery of persons bound to service or labor in one State, under ihe laws thereof wno escane into another btate. 1 1 as anti-Republican in its conception, and well calculated to remove the just responsiblity of the Representative, a fatal error in a Republican Gov ernment. That these suggestions had no influence upon the Legislature is apparent by the unneces sary connection, by the present bill, of the coun ties of Fayette and Westmoreland, of Armstrong, Clarion and Jefferson, and many others that might be enumerated. It is equally manifest that the re marks in relation to counties created since 1790, have produced no impression. In that message, without the slightest wish to regard the preponderance of political parties, my views of a fair and equitable apportionment were given to the Legislature, irom the apparantly entire disregard of my suggestions in the construc tion of the present bill. 1 could not expect to find, from a continuation of your session, any change in the opinions of members, and hence was forced to believe that all efforts, on my part to carry into effect the spirit of the constitution, as I understood it, would prove abortive in reconciling the dissim ilar sentiments entertained upon the subject. Impressed with the conviction that it was unsafe to have no legislation on the subject, and that ihe continuation of your session or your re-assemblage would result, for the seasons stated, in the enact ment of no more equitable law than the present, 1 have felt it to be better, under the circumstances, to give my assent thereto, and although it is far from being such legislation as 1 could have desired, it is infinitely preferable to the infliction of the wrong upon popular institutions that might, and most probably would, have resulted from your sep aration without the passage of any law on the sub ject. In my humble judgment so gross an infractiurrof the Constitution would leave the lives, reputation and property of the citizen without the protection and safety guarantied by a faithful observance of the organic law. This statement is submitted, that my fellow-citizens may know the reasons, that have influenced me to sign a bill which, I feel is not equitably just to all sections of the State, and which does injus tice to the great party with whom I have the hon or to concur in political partialities. Wm.F. Johnston. Executive Chamber, ? . Harrisburg, May 15, 1850. $ Hawkers ant Pedlars. By a receni act of ihe Legislature, Hawkers and Pedlars of any "article of merchandise, are prohibited from making sales in ihe county of Schuylkill, whother ihey have a licence or not, under severe penalties. Persons offending against this act, can be arrested at ihe instance of any citizen, and must be committed, in de fault of bail, 10 undtTgo a irial before CouM, where, if found guilty, the penally cannot bo less than fifty dollars for each offence. We call the attention of ihe publtc 10 this act,' that its features may be understood, and carriedout. Miners Journal. There is such an enormous amount of Legis lative stupidity at the preheat lime, that itjs really refreshing to meet with a specimen of as good Legislative wit as ihe folio wing ,:lir 11 A wag in one -of our Sduiherri Legislatures, percoiving a musquito alight on a neighqjnS hand, immediately arose, and addressing ihe chair, requested that said musquiiq have leave to toithdraw his bill. " XOA Lawyer on his death: bed, willed all his nroneriv to (ho Lunaiic Asvlutn, saving as-a And 7. Abstaining from abolishing Slarerv ; reason for so ddiuo-ihat he wished his property but undor a heavy penally, prohibiting the slave 10 return to the bheral clans of people who pat trado in ihe District of Columbia ronised him 1
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