session in they t•cl-wct wls wrong, Mr,,
A.t4A-billiworst II I • worft,..
Another objection urged to the law of'
the extra session is, that it discharges the
obligation eststing between security and
Eritiopal. Mr. Watt's bill did the same.
tiesitles this law 19 far better guarded
smainst fraud than that proposed by Mr.
WALL and his political ft iends. This tau
tiClit4 out of its ueneti:s defaulters to
the Government; that did nut. This ilia,
excepts out of its benefits delinquent exe
cutors, administrators, guardians, trus•
tees, 4.c.; that did nut.
I might trace the parallel between these
twit bills further, 'bet it is us.:less. My
purpose has been to show, what is the
fact, that every feature 'in the law of the
extra session which St is been deemed ex•
ceptionable, and * has beet* seized open
and perverted for the purpose of making it
unpopular Cur political effect, is to be fiend
in the bill reported by Mr. WALL, and
field forth by the Yon Buren party, b..fore
the late Presideritial election, as the bow
of promise to a country deluged by revo
lutions and disasters. I might du inure.
could, by pursuing
the parallel between
these bill,, stow that, %tole that of t,e
extra sessisn costa its nit feature deemed
objectionable which is not to be found in
that oI \lr. WALL's, it is far better guar.
did against frauds. But this I leave Air
those whit may be curious to pursue the
subject, repeating, however. that I invite
investigation.
Tne chief if not the only dislincti.tn in
Principle in these bills is, that Mr. WALL'S
included banks alai other corpm anoint,
sod that of the extra session ..ties not.
But all will agree that the law of the ex
tra secs oft, if unpopular, does not owe its
unpopularity to this. Besides it will be
seen that the provisions in Mr. WALL'S
bill on this subject would have been en
tirely inoperati% e. It provided that any
State might release its books and other.
co”piwatimis trout the up.rat ten of the law.
This rendered its provisions unequal and
not uniftirin, and therefore unconstitution
al. It made it inoperative and useless,
because the States would nearly if nut
always grant the exemption, and render
the law of Congress powerless.
Having tried to explain, with as much
clearness end i as I could, the
standing of all parties tin this question,,
and shown that till, in some horn or other,'
have declared in favor of a uniform sys•
tent of brankruptcy, I come to the directs
question—uught thi; , law now to be re
pealed?
The power to pass the law is ingralted
into the Constitution, and comes to us
by the sanction of the wistlinn of our
fathers. This power was cm:furred on,
the Federal Government by a vote of 8111
the States but one. The opinions nfl
Washingtoo uud Madison, of Marsliall, ,
an d a host al tithers, constituting a large
majtirity of our greatest and best men,
li ving a n d dead, stand recorded in favor
of the wisdon and policy of a bankrupt
law. We have the example in some form'
or other of every commercial nation en
earth. Should we not then pause belitre
we laastily, and under an excitement ritis , i
ed by misrepresentation.' iuul Mi 41.1
standings of its spirit and object, erase
this law from the statute book, leaving
behind it prejudices deep and lasting
against all laws IM the subject, that will
perhaps in all future time cause this wise
Provision of the Constitution to remain a
dead letter If the lit, is defective,
ought we not to amend rather than de
stroy?
.
if not the only popular,
objections to this law have been drawn
from its retro.p , ctive action--its opera.
Sion on pas contracts. Thi-, hill for re.
peal, in the form it is likely to pittiS. retain.
the retro.peciive, and only repeals the
prospewive I:•ature—that t.. it retains the
pal supp 'sett to be unpopu , ur. find repeals
that which is a liworite wills all!
The first operation of the law is its re
trospective feature, which is favorable to
debtors ; its se:tind operttion is its pro
spective feature, which is favorable to
creditors. 11 by allow it to operate in
part and then repeal it? The low wits
designed as a system looking to the future,
as well as the present and the past—look
ing to the lights of-creditors as well as
debtors. Why allow it to operate in It.
vor of one cla-a, and then, by repeal, pre
vent its operation in favor of the other
This law, by this repeal bill, is in danger
of mutilation, in danger of being rendered
useless, if not iitjuriuu., by cutting asuti
iler parts essential to the value and vital.
ity of each other.
It is not designed to repeal the bank
rupt law as a whole, but to repeal one
half of it only; end the part proposed to
be repealed is that which is objected to
by no one. This is a strange state of the
question. An excitem-nt his been gotten
up• and, for political effect, this law has
been misrepresented, and distorted, and
denounced, all over the country, as par.
tial in its operation, anti discharging debt•
ors without any correspmiling hetPlit to
creditors. Creditores, looking only at
the first operations of the law, have been
induced erroneously to suppose it injure
nun to their interests ; anti now, before
tlut part which is unquestionably benefi
cial to them can be brought fairty into ex
ercise, and folly it , derstooll by the coup•
try, it is to be repealed, and the law is to
b e prevented from vindicating its own
wisdom by time and expetience.
Sir, in these times, so sadly out of joint,
when .a temporary triumph in a popular
election is more looked to than the per.
inanent good of the country, and when
patriotism in the breasts of many is elfin
guisheas by . motives of party anti personal
elevation, it is nut remarkable that this,
saw should have been misrepresented.—
Though blessed with but little foresight,
I foresaw and foretold this in the remarks
1 made on the bill before its passage at
the extra session. I hope I shall be pardon•
ed for reading from soy printed speech
what 1 then said. After giving my gen
eral views on the subject, I said :
" 1 know tb'at it takes time to develope
the operat'.on of any system. The people
have te, learn and become accustomed to
older properly to appreciate its value.
know this systetn will go out like a
istronger, who must no: expect to gain full
iconfldence before he has formed his tic-
Iquaintance in the community. I know,
isir, that a thousand prejuil.ces will be
,raised against it. But if the people will
sustain it until it has passed its day ol
trial, as 1 believe they will, the conse-
Trences will be happy and glorious. The
silent but potent influeoce of this system
in regulating society, and in improving the
morals of the country. may not at once be
seen ; but in the end it will be developed,
and its powerful influence will be univer
sally acknowledged.
" Every important change in our social
condition must meet with opposition. It
breaks in on previously-formed opinions
and Wig established habits ol thinking,
and mu-t, therefore, be for 0 while viewed
with distrust, and regarded by some as
trimblesome intruder. It is this that
gives me the only uneasiness I feel about
this measure, in the event of its passage."
Sit, after listening, with the most anx
ious desire fur the truth, to all that has
been said against this law, 1 have an un•
changed opinion, that if sustained by the
people, and allowed to remain unrepealed
until it shall have been tested by time and
experience, it will do much permanent
good.
This law, in its proepeclive operation,
is calculated to prevent fraud, by cutting
ofi fraudulent conveyances and dishonest
preferences. It aims a deadly blow at
all conveyances designed to defraud cre
ditors. It subjects the debtor who makes
them to its compulsory process. and gives
to the honest creditor a most ellicieot and
effective remedy against fraud and con•
,cealment.
Again : it not only furnishes the most
poi% eau! weapons against dishonesty, but
it holds out the strongest inducements fur
'honesty. In this it will improve the mor
als of the country, and save many a cheek
ifrom the blush ut guilt. The man who
has been in sill ience, but finds himself
scathed by a struke iii misfortune, too
often finds an excuse to his own conscience'
for concealing, in the hands of his friends,
something to give bread to those who are
helpless and dependent on him. This is
wrong, but many will tio it its long as the
law alloo sno filial relief or discharge. If
the creditor gives up all, still lie is in bon
The little . e may earn by th•
sweat of his brow, to supply the wants of
those dependent on hint, is subject to be
taken. In this condition he yields to the
temptation, and cunceals his pi 'Telly.—
Thi., 1 repeat, is wrong. But, I ask, is
not the law wrong that leads him into this
temptation Is it not better to say to'
him, give up honestly and fully all you
have, and you shall go free ? Will lie not
g i ve u p all? %%ill he nut be saved fi not
temptation, and will not his integrity be
preserved ? And, I will add, will not
ereilitors, under the (Tel:alma of this nu►
live, acting on debtors, get inure than they
otherwise nimbi
This law provides for equality in the
diatribuUon of the debtor's property, and
forbids unfair arid unjust preference s:
given to favorite and confidential credo.'
'ore. This cute up by the route the lar•
gest and most fruitful source of fraud and
injustice. Go into your courts or cl►ao
cery and of law, and inquire is hat opens
the most extensive has vest in the field of
litigation, and you will find that it is the
permission which the law has heretofore
;ire!' to debtors to divide out their pro•
perty among a portion of their creditors,
to the total exclusion of all others. A
titan, for example, doing art extensive
hostiles., fiiiils himself in sinking circu in
-ta ores, and immediately determines to
save his
. friends, and that perhaps with:
the secret understanding that they shall
nave him from the danger ol• wanting suf
ficient means to play the gentleman upon
An assignment, a mortgage, or a deed of
trust, is executed, by winch
sic pro
perty 14 at once transferied to those con
fidential creditors an•l friends, appointing
some one in the, confidence and under the
control of the debtor as trustee. And it
is very common for the trustee and credi
tors to commence operations by appnint
int: sh e tlehior him.ell their agent to con
duct the business and wind up its curt.
terns. (Mier creditors, seeing this, and
feeling the injustice done thrill, go to
law fa• what they conceive to be their
rights ; hut, its the end, they are general
ly turned out of cost t. having learned, to
titeir cost, that the law tolerated those
inortgiges, assignments, and deeds of
trust, anti that it was within the sovereign
pleasure of the debtor to give his proper
ty to either of his creditors, though itl
might be a fattier, a brother, or a sun.
Take another example of frequent oc
currence. A man, a merchant, for exam •
pie, in casting up his accounts, makes the
unwelcome discovery that his debts ex
ceed his credits—diat he is unable to,
meet his engagements. Ile is willing to'
give up all at once if that would discharge
him ; but the State laws do not allow this.
Though nine-tenths of his creditors should
agree to his discharge, the other a may hold
him in bondage to theday of hie death.
Having, therefore, nothing to gam and
much to lose by bringing his business to
a close anti making a toll surrender to his
creditors, he becomes ifesperate, and re
solves to go on and put every thing to the
hazard of a bold enterprise, and risk his
fortune and future hopes on a single ad- -
venture. In the language ofa distinguish
ed orator and statesman of South Carolina,
"If he should succeed, he is saved; and
if he fails, he can only perish, which, as
ruin already stares him in the face, will
not render his condition much worse than
it is. Being driven by the force of cir
cumstances to this determination, the
means of executing, it are at hand. He
has friends; the banks are open to them ;
loans are obtained by means of the en
dorsements of men in good credit, under
a solemn pledge that, come what may,
there shall he no departure from Me mod
ern code of honor, which makes it the
most sacred alludes to secure the friend.
ly endorser, no matter at whose expense,
or what sacrifice of feeling or principle.
With a fictitious credit, thus created and
thus supported, the debtor engages boldly
in a s:recies of commercial ganthling. The
luck is against him, and his doom is seal
ed. But though he must perish, he re-:
solves to fall with honor. He goes into
the market, and, on the strength of the cre•
dit obtained by the countenance of his
friends, possesses himself of tine goods of '
others ; then tails, and assigns his whole
estate, including the goods thus obtained,
to these very Intends, and leaves all others
to their Nie."
This picture every one of observation
will recognise as true to the life. This
power of preferring confidential creditot s
is the author of a thousand gambling spec
ulations, gotten up by persons in sinking
and desperate circumstances, and sustain
ed by fictitious credit. It is the source of
the splendid fidures which dazzle and
astonish the , commercial world with the
magnificence of the bubbles that have
burstell k anti which exhibit such a vast
disproprfftinn between debtor's property
and the amounts of their indebtedness.—
Not only this; but it opens the widest
dotty for all manner of frond and imposi ,
don on the honest and unsuspecting, who
are but little acquainted with the syptes of
deception that can be played off by the
dishonest and fraudulent gambler in corn.
mercia i adventures.
This law, in iV prospective operation, is
calculated, in a great degree, tit check
this growing and swelling tide of evil,
which is pouring its bitter waters over the
fatal. It provides for equality in the dis
tribution of the debtor'. property, forbids
unfair preferences, and protects the mass
of 'meat and unsuspecting creditors from
the cunning and devices the few who
usually eogross all the debtor's property.
How alert has it been seen that a large
estate, by the magic concealment of murt
gages, deeds of tiust, and secret convey•
stucco, has been swept into the hands of
confidential friends, perhaps the near re
lations of the bankrupt, or into the grasp
of batiks soil other moneyed corporations,
to save endorsers, while the my" of cre
ditors get nothing ? fl•bto contracted to
raise the means of wild speculation are
paid, while those contracted for the pro
duce of the sweat of the brow" of the
farmer and mechanic gut neglected. Not,
only this; but i! often happens that the
cumin, the tobacco, the corn, and the
wheat, obtained on a credit from the plan
ter and farmer, go to save endorsers or
confidential friends, while those who rais
ed the produce !Ivo . the soil go unrewar
ded. And that, ton, in many instances
wlt.re these very endorsers a .d confiden
tial friends had given to the bahkrupt a
fictitious credit, and enabled him to pur
chase the property of the unsuspecting,
under the cover Lidos deception. Is this
not wrong ? This law is designed to pot
an end to this, and place confidence and I
credit on surer and jester foundations.--
l'hat the speculator and money dealer
should oppose this is not so remarkable;,
but that the mass of the people should.
when they rightly understand it, is im
possible. They nay for a while be de
ceived, and that, too, by those whit, on
other occa,ions, and when no political
capital was to be made, have eulogized the
law, but they cannot long remain deceived.
l'o oth, crushed for a while, will re-esta•
Wish itself ; and the good sense of the
p.mple, when they understand the matter
rightly, will discover their own best inter
ests.
It will, in its prospective operation,
restrain that system of suretyship which,
while it seldom dues good or benefits any
, rite, has been the destruction ofthousands.
Cut oft' the flattering promise of mortga
ges and deeds of trust and other prefer.
ences, in the event of the debtor's failure,
and you give to the surety or endorser a
g o o I reason for ke , pitig his name off his
mend's p.per, or if he puts it there, it will
he upon the confidence that his friend can
meet all his ettgazements. it will operate
as a restraint upon debtors, and hold them
within the circle of that legitimate credit
which is the a , u 1 and life blood of com
merce and trade, by first taking from
them the means of building up false cre
dit, and, second, by giving
to their cre•
ditors, through the compulsory process of
:he l aw , a timely check on thew wild ex
travagance, fraud, or lolly.
Again : this law, in its prospective npe-,
ration, will restrain excessive ctedit.--
‘tortgages and deeds of trust are the very
pillars on wh:ch false credit rests, The
only legitimate credit which is bale, and
should he encouraged, is the. which rests
on a confidence in the ability of the debtor
'to pay all his debts. That is false and
delusive which rests on mortgages or
deed:4llf trust, or the promise of them,
giving a preference to part, thereby int
pliedly acknowledging an inability to pay
all. The secret promises and dxpecta-
lions of trusts and other preferences, in
favor of coididential creditors, are most
powerful elements in the production of
excessive credit; and, combined with
other causes, its unhappy fruits may be
seen in the desolation that now over
spreads the land. This law, much abused
as it is, affords the best remedy fur this
disease, and will do more good than all the
nostrums with which the country is flood
ed. The evils of excessive credit tarnish
a theme fin• every tongue, and
yet the remedies they Mier, both tor pre
vention and cure, generally strike at the
branches and not at the root of the evil.
Let the causes of extensive credit, to
!which I have adverted, be checked and
confirmed by wise legislation, and then
'let a curb be placed on the irregularities
!and fluctuations of the currency, and you
will do much to prevent a recurrence of
the revulsions and disasters in commerce
and trade, which have distinguished the
, last ten years as a most unfortunate and
'remarkable epoch in our history.
,
might refer to other arguments con-,
Inected with the prospective operation of
I
1
• t us law, but having spoken on the subject
once before, my object now is brevity. I
'voted for this law on its passage, because
• I thought it right, and because I believed,
from all the lights I had, that my constit
uents were fur it. Oa a former effort to
repeal it, nut having heard any thim , from
my constituents to the contrary, I'voted
against the repeal, and now that it has gone
into operation, and had its elrect only in
part, I feel [mid for still stronger reasons
‘o vote against its repeal. A repeal in
the manner in which it is likely to pass,
as 1 have already said, would only ope
rate on that part of it which I have no
where heard objected to. If the law is
defective, let us amend it. I will go heart
and hand with those who desire that. If
it does not in all things conform to the
opinions ut the people, let us change it un
til it does • but, for Heaven's sake, let us
not tear a law from the statute book, and
repudiate principles which we have all,
without distinction 01 party, in some form
or other, in times past, warmly advocated.
THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL.
Huntingdon, Feb. S ; 1843.
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
V. B. PALMER, Esq. (N 0.104 S. Brd St:
Ph:ludelphia,)is authorized to act asAgent
for this paper, to procure eubscriptionsand
au vertisments.
Wood Minted.
Wood will be taken at this office in
payment of subscription or job work.
Also Hay and Oats, at market price.
More of the Somers Mutiny.
The Court of Inquiry in this case have
unanimously acquitted Commander Mac
kenzie. At ihe request of Mackenzie
and the other officers of the Somers, a
Court Martial has been ordered, which
convened on board the North Carolina, at
New Yo.k, on Wednesday last. The
Court is composed of the following mem-
hers :
President—Commodore Downes.
Comititalore Read.
Captains W. Compton Bolton.
Dan. Turner.
Charles W. Skinner.
Isaac McKeever.
Julia H. Aulick.
Walden Dulany.
John Gwynn, and
Thomas W. Wyman.
Commanders, Henry W. Ogden.
Irvine Shubrirk, and
William W. AL.K.ean,
Commander Mackenzie, who received
the order for his arrest, will be tried upon
three charges— the first murder, the se
cond cruelty and oppression. What the
third is, we have nut heard.
The Baltimore Patriot says that Wil.
liain H. Norris, of that city, has been ap
pointed Judge Advocate or the Sumer:.
Court Martial.
We presume that the mutineers of the
Somers, now confined on board the North
Carolina, will also be tried by this Court
Martial.
The Exchequer.
On Friday the 27th ult. the President's
Exchequer Scheme was voted down by
the decisive vote of 193 to 1 8. So it is
finally consigned to "the tomb of the
Capulets."
MI WRATH Mt.—About eight inches of
snow and cold as Greenland.
Bon. Milton Brown's Speech.
To•day's Journal contains an excellent
Speech against the repeal of the Bankrupt
Law. it is not very lung e and will amply
compensate fur the the time spent in pe
rusing it.
More Treachery.
W ILLIAM WHITIC, has been removedl
from the Post office at Loch Haven, (Clin
ton county, Pd.) and Charles D. Eldred,!
Esq. appointed in his place.
We believe it is not a novelty, under
John Tyler's administration, to hear of,
good Whigs being removed from office In
make room fur the most reckless of hunH
gry Loci:locos. Such has been the case'
in Lock Haven. And thereupon the yap
doodle Democrat," the Federal Loculne°
organ in Clinton county, shouts most
lustily—" Democrats, vine la Tyler l"
This step on the part of the Postmaster )
General has caused a considerable degree
of excitement among the citizens of Lock
fiasco. On the day after the appointment
cas made known, the Whigs got up an
indignation meeting, at which the con
duct or John Tyler and his tools was de
nounced in unmeasured terms. 'lhe
Locofocos held a meeting at the same
time, and adopted a preamble and a series
a resolutions—from is hich we extract
the following:
"Resolved, That as Democrats, we apH
proven, the course 01 the Postmaster Gen •
oral, in discharging from office a thorough
going Whig and appointing in his stead, a
staunch and substantial Democrat.
Res4ved, 'not we have no personal
animosity towards the recent Posnnaater
of this [place, but tlispise hia political prin.
ciplea, and go in fur C. 1). Eldred, El.
not because we love Cacaar less, but be•
cause we love Rome more."
Words cannot express the contempt in
which such creatures as those who adop
ted the above resolutions must be held by
all who are nut totally destitute of every
principle of honor and fairness. Mr.
White, who has thus been brought to the
political guillotine, has always been a
consistent Democratic Whig, and in 1840
supported Harrison and Tyler, while Mr.
Eldred, the new Postmaster who was
then editor of the Lycoming Gazette, de.
lighted in heaping slander, insult and'
abuse on the head of the good old Presi
dent Harrison, as well as on John Tyler
and the whole Harrison party.
Now, reader, go with us, in imagina•
tion, to Lock Haven, See the Locofocos
assemble in their public meeting—hear
them resolve that they approve of
niE A CHER Y—that they have nothing
against Mr. White, but despise his po•
litical principles"—and that they go in for
Mr. Eldred, who has no principles except
those founded on DOLLARS AND CENTS.—
A
pretty picture, truly: Oh, shame !
where is thy blush ?
The Lamentable Fate of
Colonel Carter.
It is our painful duty to record the mel
ancholy fact, that Col. JOHN F. CARTER,
Editor of the Lycomiag Gazette, has fal
len a victim to that awful epidemc which
now prevails in many parts of the country.
Yes, sad and true it is, that bur friend—
the gay, fearless arid brave Colonel Carter
•—is forever torn from us, as appears by'
the following notice taken from a late ,
number of the Lycoming Gazette.
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them
now."
But to the notice:
.`MARRIED.—In Williamsport, Pa., on
Fuesday morning, the 24th January, Its
the Rev. Mr. Phillips, Mr. John .torsyill
Carter, to Miss Catharine, datiAlitet of V.
C. Campbell, Esq., all or that place.
Alas! and oho would have thought it?
Colonel Carter—Colonel John Carter—
Colonel John Forsyth Carter, fallen a vic.J
tim to the epidemic matrimonial ! lie, the
very Lion of Bachelors in Northern Penn
Sylvania, bowing his proud spirit at the
.brine of Hymen, and yielding his stout
heart and better judgment to woman's
charms: Oh, how fallen !I how the migh
ty are brought low I!! But the deed is
lone, and our sorrowing avails nothine,
l'he valliant Colonel has surrendered fir
'tally anti forever. lf, when the " honey'
, noon" has waned, he shall find that con
jugal felicity is nut what it is "cracked
ap to be," we hope he will at least be
Philosopher enough to "grin and bear it."
This is all the consolation we can give him
now. Had he consulted us, however, we
should have, given him better advice and
charged hint nothing fur it.
Wonder what has become of our old
friend "Obadiah," the Woman Hater,
who used to flourish in Williamsport
Colonel Carter certainly never heard his
eloquent appeals to Bachelors, else he
would never have come to this.
The lamentable fate of Cal. Carter is a
solemn warning to all the Bachelors within
our dominions. It is true there are hut few
young ladies like 'Kit Campbell' to be met
with, yet when one so zealous in the cause
of single .blessedness as was the noble,
daring aid dashing Cul. Carter, tiotlder4
yields to
" The might—the majesty of loveliness"
it strongly admonishes the whole comma,
nity of us Bachelors of the insecurity of
our joys and comforts, as well as of the
danger we are in of slipping from our
rota and lofty position. Anniesides
this, it throws the whole burthen of defen
ding our rights and interests on our friend*
General Fenn, of the Pennsylvania Tele•
graph, Ilkjor BeaaelAhe Carlisle Herald,
and a few other unfaltering and inveterate
Bachelors among the corps editorial. We
! shall look to these gentlemen for renewal,'
exertions to prevent further encroach
ments upon our liberties, while we shall
not relax our humble efforts in promoting
the honorable cause of the Bachelors:---
We hope it will be lung 'adore we shall
again be called on to notice so melancholy
•
an occurrence.
If it shall ever be our misfortune to fall
a victim to this wide-spreading epidemic
matrimonial we trust we shall not act as
silly a part as Col. Carter did, and marry
a lady who has a prettier sister unmarri
ed. That's all.
Relief to She Mateo.
The lion. Win. C. Johnston's plan of
relief to the States by issuing $20U,000-
000 of stock, based on the public lands,
to be distributed among the States, is ra
pidly gaining favor with Congress, and
with the people generally.
Next week we will publish the Letter
of the Hon. James CLoper, member of
Congress from this State, to George;llar•
sie, Esq. of our State Senate, relative to
this plan of relief, so that our readers may
understand it more fully.
State Scrip.
A bill has passed both branches of oar
Legislature, (and only wants the signa
ture of the Governor to become a lee•,)
requiring the State Treasurer to cancel
$lOO,OOO of this currency witliio two dais
after the passage of the act, and $lOO,OOO
more every month thereafter, until the
whole issue is cancelled. The frtsil a
mount of scrip issued is $2,113,650.
A bill has been reported in the Legisla
ture to enable the banks to issue Small
Notts. which, if it passes into a law, will
perhaps supply the place of the State
Scrip now in circulation.
()tr . EDWARD A. lIANNLOAN liasfiLeaa
elected U. S. Senator to represent the
State of Indiana, in the place of the lion.
0. H. Smith, whose term expires on the
4th of March next. Mr. H. is a Locofocu,
and was elected by a majority of one vote.
The treachery of a man who was elected
as a Whig, is said to have produced this
,result. The traitor, we see it stated,
so/t1 his vote. •
Lady's World of Fashion.
The February nuMaer of this deserved
ly popular periodical has been received:
The pictorial embellishments are, "The
Poet's Bride"—.The Valley of Wyo
ming," splendid steel engravings—"Ag
,nes," a beautifully coloured lithograph--
the usual plate of Fashions fur February,
representing six ladies with every variety
of dress—and an elegantly coloured pat•
tern of embroidery. The reading matter
is from the pens of the best writers.
The North American.
The Weekly North A merkanpf Friday
last made its appearance in an enlarged
and improved form. It ranks among the
t)est papers published in Philadelphia—is
a discreet and efficient advocate of Whig
principles—and has always been one of
our favorites.
MICHIGAN COPPKR AND LEAD.-..Dr.
Hatie.idon, Slate Geologist of Michigan,
lens made his report to the Legislature...,
Of the abundance of copper and lend in
Northern Michigan he has the fullest
confidence. In opening a vein, he threw
out with a single blast, neatly two tons of
copper ore, mid with it numerous masses
of pure copper, trotn the most minute speck
to masses wei l thing forty pounds. Thq
portly of the ores examined, proved to be.
from 51 to 21 per cent. The great mines
rif Cornwall, du not, at prcseut, product
over 8 per cent.
CO:T:1 UPON INDLOTMSNT4.-Mr. fleck
man's supplenient . provides that in all cases
of indictment, the Cirand. Jury shall have
control of the costs, so as to impose them
upon the county or the prosecutor sad
the petit jury shall have, the power to lin.
pose them upon the prosecutor, the county
or the, dpfendant.
A lump of gold. Weighing 85 !monde.
found in the mines of Zluboust, Russia.
has been deposited in the Miniva‘ , Muse- .
um, at St. Petersburg. t.
The recent earthquake seemi to have
been extensively felt.