THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL
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Wednesday ix of 115arthe,'45.
0 7 V. B. PALMER, Esq., is authorized to act
as Agent for this l aper, to procure autisetil lions and
advertisements in Philadelphia, New York, Batti
stero and Boston.
OFFICES
Philadelphia—Number 69 Pine street.
Raltinsore—S. E. cermet of Baltimore and Cal.
vert ffireets.
New York—Number 160 Nassau street.
Basiert—Number 16 Stile street.
A DVN.
Ws hope that all persona indebted to ua for a full
year's subscription, for jobbing or advertising, will
avail themselves of the opportunity which the next
two weeks afford, of sendieg to us, by persons com
b, attend the Adjourned Court, at least a part of
what they owe tie. We are in want of money, and
must have it.
At the same limo we tender our thank. to those
who have been punctual in paying.
"Zrackstown" Rebuilt.
We had occasion to be at Jackstawn on Saturday
hot, and found the substantial atone hotel erected on
the site of the old tavern destroyed by fire in Octo
ber 1943 completed and ready for the accommoda
tion of the travelling community. The kind hoot,
Mr. JO.RPH Goons►RT, showed us through the
building, and we were pleased wtth the arrange
ment and construction of it. The hotel is large
and commodious, and well furnished with every
thing calculated to minister to the comfort of the
" way worn traveller." We recommend the house
aa highly deserving of public patronage.
1:0" We publish in another part of ilia paper the
proceedings of a meeting held in this borough on
Wednesday last, for the purpose of taking into con
sideration an editorial article which appeared in
the " Journal" of that date, headed "Spring Elec
tions."
It is due to ourself to state that said article found its
way into our columns in our absence, without our
knowledge, and that, it did not meet with our appro
bation. Our sentiment. agree with those expt used
in the resolutions of said meeting, and were so ex
pressed in another article under the same head, on
the 29th of January last.
The recommendatiens of the article published in
our last, concerning the choice of all other officers
to be chosen at the Spring Elections, except lati
ces of the Peace, are not disapproved of by the
meeting nor by the editor.
Our agency, do.
, Ne(again call the attention of the Merchants
into whom hands this paper falls. to the Advertise
ment of Wholesale Merchants, Manufacturers and
Dealers in Philadelphia.
The business men of Philadelphia seem to un
derstand and appreciate the benefits of advertising
in the country. They are pretty generally patroni
sing the country pram, and reaping handsome pro
its by so doing.
In Huntingdon county we have a population of
upwards of 35,000, who are engaged chiefly in the
manufacture of iron and in agricultural pursuits.—
We have within our bounds from 40 to 50 Iron
Works, and the lint of retailers of merchandize, pub.
halted in this paper by the County Commissioners,
@hows that there ore 125 Stores in this county,
where a larva aggregate amount of merchandize is
sold. All these stores receive their goods from Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and New York. Country mer
chants need scarcely be told that city merchants
who advertise in country papers are alwayeleady
to give good bargains.
The .. Journal" has an extensive circulation
throughout Huntingdon and the adjoining counties,
and is therefore an excellent medium for business
men and all others to communicate information to
this section of the country. We have appointed
V. B. PALMER, Esq., our Agent, to procure sub
scriptions end advertisement. in Philadelphia, New
York, rallituore and Boston, for the purpose of
giving the business men of those cities an opportu
nity of advertising in our paper. Upon application
to him they can see the paper and learn the terms of
adveitiaing, &c.
clj. On the mainline of the Pennsylvania Canal
Navigation will commence on Tuesday next, the
I ith inst., weather permitting.
cj- The Dorritea of Rhode Island are going to
buckle on their leather armor, grasp their anything
but trenchant weapons, and make war at the next
election under the cry of , 4 unconditional liberty for
Darr." Their effort. will no doubt be attended
with the glorious results that marked Chepatchet.
01°. The Democratic Union alluding to Colonel
Polk% retinue on his way to V\ ashington, says he
had only two negro servanis with him, Ills couch
wan and h;a wife."
the Union really serious in saying that limo
Preaddent's wife is a negro servant ?
(CMG Cox won, from a Committee on Retrench
ment, has reported to the House of Representative.
at Harrisburg, a statement of the expenses of post
age to the State, for the Legielature. The whole
amount from May, 1,1841, to Jan. 6,1845, way :
For the House, f 42,170 93
Fur the Senate, 20,3::0 62
$62,991 55
A bill accompanies the report, abolishing the
plashes of the Stute's pnying postage for the mem
bere and otlimre of the Le;islutute.
"Stair County."
On Friday morning the Lill for the erection of a I
new county to be called Blair, out of parts of Hun
tingdon and Bedford, was called up in the Senate '
by Mr. Piglet of Ulearfield. While the first section
was nndcr consideration Mr. Morrison moved to
strike out Snyder township. The amendment was
advocated by Measrs. Merriam and Kline, and op
posed by Mr. Eyer. The yeas and nays being cal
led, the yeas were 7, and the nays 19—so the
amendment was not agreed to.
The first section of the bill then being under con
tide stir n. Mr. .Mon loon took the floor and spoke
against the bill. He informed the Senate that he
had taken pains to count the number of persona who
petitioned for the new county, and also those who
remonstrated igainst it. The petitioners on the
10th of February, numbered 1641; and the re
monetrants numbered 2816, being a majority of
1175. At the same time there were 400 petition
ers for a new county to be called Penn, who remon
strated against Blair. Since that time other re
monstrances and petitions had been sent in. He
again counted the names on the 27th, and the pe
titioners had increased to 1976 and the remonstrant.
to 4: - .60. Difference in favor of remonstrancea
2294! Mr. Mori.. . • , ms made
in the other Hour • ••• oar Hunt
ingdon county. . fcreinohis
bill through that l.i.tireit of iha Lt•gbilature, that
from 3000 to 4000 citizens had petitioned for this
new county. I aver, said Mr. Morrison, that not
one half of the citizens militia the hounds had as
ked for the division. What, peas a lcw erecting a
stew county where one half of the people have ne
ver asked for it! This would be monstrous indeed,
to say nothing of the remonstrances that have been
presented here against the division. What, sir, pass
a law in the very face of a large majority who have
remonstrated against the same. Sir, it Will be tot
this Senate to say, in this case, whether a majority
is to be heard, or a minority, for the passage of this
bill will settle that question.
Mr. M. next exhibited a statement of the amount
of taxes levied in Huntingdon and Bedford court•
ties, for State and county purposes.
In Bedford county the county tax is $19,535 35
State tax r 7,400 00
Outstanding for state purposes, 10,951 47
Total, $37,786 82
In Huntingdon county the amount
of tax outstanding for state purposes is $34,176 25
For county purposes, 16,748 50
Total,
Sir, continued Mr. M., I have given you the
amount of tans in the countiesof Huntingdon and
Bedford to show that they are already greater than
they can pay, without the passage of this bill,
which will increase them in my opinion, nearly one
half in the old counties and thrihble in the new.
Ho also stated that the distance from Hollidays
burg to Huntingdon by the Turnpike is 28 miles;
by the Canal 32 miles; and by way of Williatns
burg only 24 miles; and appealed to the Senators
from Berke, Bucks, Lancaster, Montgomery, North
ampton, Westmoreland and York whether some of
their constituents have not 28 miles to travel, and
not all turnpike roads with a daily stage running
thereon, and a canal with a daily lino of packets
running from their very doors to their county seat..
rite evils complained of by the petitioners aro mole
imaginary than real.
Mr. Morrison then met the arguments founded
on the number of causes on the dockets of Hunt
ingdon county. Ho exhibited certificates which
should for ever silence such an argument. The
certificates exhibited the trial lieta of Huntingdon
county. and also those of little Mifflin.
In Mifflin county the number of causes fur trial
during the year 1844, on the respective lists were
as follows:
At Jnnunry Term 111
" April " 105
Augunt 107
Nov'ber 104
In Huntingdon county they were in the same
year as fullows:
At January Tertn 61
it 4,11 (I 60
a August a 48
a Nov'ber a 68
showing that little counties do not always remedy
the evils complained of by the petitioners. If it
did we should perhaps have petitions praying for
another division of little Mifflin.
Now, Mr. Speaker, continued Mr. Morrison,' do
most solemnly protest against the passage of this
bill which will injure the many for the benefit of
the few, in the increase of taxes, which must ne
cesearily follow. And I hope Senators will at once
vote this section down, and wait till we see better
reasons than those coining from the town of Holli
daysburg, whose personal interests are to bo so touch
benefitted. What, sir, passe law to raise the value
of every foot of ;•rwt o d in and around the town of
Hollidaysi : its present val
ue, and ia Bodford and Hunt-
ingdon counties to p .y nearly two dollars of tax for
every one which they now must pay.
Mr. Morrison ref,rfc.l to the attempt at making
political capital out of this division. He said that
he should he the last man to oppose it on such
grounds. Ho stated that the returns of the late
election show that in the contemplated new county
of Blair there was a Whig majority of 760 and in
the remainder of Huntingdon county a Whig ma
jority of 575 ; and he could not see how the Whigs
were to be overcome by taking about 100 off from
their majority of front 300 to 900 in Bedford coun
ty. He called on Senators to pause before they
act in this matter. A. for himself, he said the oath
which he took on entering the Senate forbade him
from yielding to any measure which would tax the
many for the benefit of the few.
Mr. Eyer advocated the bill in a few remarks,
and exhibited a statement of the number of peti
tioners and remonstranta, differing materially from
that of Mr. Morrison. On being questioned by
Mr. Morrison, Mr. Eyer admitted that the persona
who remonstrated against Blair county and petition.
ed for Penn were added to the petitions for Blair
county—and also that the statement was not made
out by himself but by a friend (James M. Bell,
1:1.0 in whore hand writing it was.
Mr. 'Bigler advocated the bill with a zeal worthy
of a better cause, assigning every reason but the
true one for the active part he was taking for the
division of the countiesof Bedford and Huntingdon.
Mr. Deride opposed the bill on the ground that it
would be an additional expense to the Common
wealth and increase the taxes without any adequate
benefit to the people of the counties immediately
interested, or of the State. He had no assurance
that the Presinent Judge of this Ifith district would
or could preside in the Courts of the new county
without detriment to the other counties in said 'din
triet—he called on the Senators representing that
district to say whether Judge Black could do
so. Mr. D. was not certain but at the next session
of the Legislature a new Judicial District would
have to be made to accommodate Blair county.—
He alluded to ilia case of the last new county,
Carbon—it was annexed to an old Judicial District
but at the following session a new district 'mid to be
formed, and a new President Judge appointed to
accommodate that county.
The yeas and nays being required on the first
section by Messrs. Morrison' ntl Byer, were as fol
lows :
YeLs—'Messrs. Anderson, Beily, Bigler, Black,
Champneys, Mum ick, Ehaugh, E tie, Ey er,Foulk
rod, Hill, Hoover, Horton, Sherwood and Wilcox,
Speaker.--15.
NArs.---Messrs. Babbitt, Carson, Chapman,
Cormnan, Crabb, Craig, Darrell, Darsie, Fegely,
Gibbons, Kline, Morrison, Huhn, Sterigere, and
Su Ilivan.--15.
So the first section was not agreed to.
Messrs. Heckman, Quay and Ross were absent.
On Saturday Mr. Rahn moved a reconsideration,
which was seconded by Mr. 'Chapman, and post
poned, with an understanding that the vote on said
motion should not be taken until all the Senators
are present.
MARRIED FOR A JOKE,
The following incident is said to have taken
place recently in the neighborhood of Rochester,
New York,
A sleigh-riding party went out to Rush, in the
"Great Western," on Tuesday evening last, and
after dancing and frolicking to their heart a content,
they set their faces homeward, at two o'clock in the
morning. At four o'clock, the storm being at itv
highest, the party had to stop for daylight, at a small
tavern near the city, where, huddled together in a
room too small fora dance, the leaders set their heads
to devising a new method of killing time. A weal
thy old bachelor and a pretty girl of eighteen were
hauled up to be married, and a young attorney in
the company was selected to play the parson or the
magistrate. . . . .
$60,924 76
the young knot-tier, thus unceremoniously pres
sed into service, and duly sensible of the part he was
playing, delivered himself of a most eloquent address
to the parties, in reference to the solemn step they
were about to take; bit the impromptu eloquence
of the ofliciator only brought down peals of laugh
ter at his mock-seriousness, and made the party more
urgent to have hun proceed ; and the bachelor being
too much of a gentleman to back out, and the girl
pleased with the sport pronounced the words in im
itation of her partner, and in the presence of the
selected witness. which, according to the laws of
New York. constituted the parties husband and wife,
till death them shall pall. The attorney having
declared the parties man and wife, and r given each
of them a certificate and filed a copy wall the town
clerk, informed the company that he had done all
the law required—and the driver declaring that all
was ready, the party left the tavern its high glee and
made their way into town. The nest day the legal
adviser of the bridegroom informed him that he was
legally married, and that the laws of this State made
no provision for joking. So much for being mar
ried in fun.
CAPTAIN TYLER'S CONSCIENCE.
The Washington Correepondent of the N. York
Courier, says r—
tt As Mr. Tyler's political career flickers in its
socket, he finds the miserable difference between
honest confidence and lip-service. Few call on him
now, save the cormorants who seek to devour the
remnants of his administration. All who once
stood by him, ere he deserted the party by whom he
was elevated, have long 'since left hint. Gladly
would he receiqe their forgiveness, if he could re
cover their respect. The forlorn condition of the
White House, its empty rooms and uncomfortable
halls attest the desertion by which it is overtaken.
That which should accompany the retirement of a
faithful President—" honor, love, obedience, troops
of friends"—the retiring Chief Executive must not
look to have;—nor even that mouth-honor—false
semblance of respect ! whose absence is yet bitterly
regretted. Whatever merit may be due some of
the public acts of his administration—even had his
active part therein •beets greater than it has—the
damning disgrace of his having first deserted the
party to which he owed his promotion, and then
used the influence that promotion gave him to de
stroy it, will never leave his memory ; for when
ever the name of Tyler is hereafter pronounced, the
Whig will frown, and the Democrat blush, at the
associations the sound conjures up—and the words,
Tyler, treason, turpitude, as they begin with the same
letter, will be suggestive of the same meaning.
DREADFUL DEATH
The Boston Courier learns from Kendall & Co's
Express, that Mr. Lorenzo D. Smith, a workman in
Mr. Cooper's paper null, at Fitchburg, lost his life
yesterday morning, in a most dreadful manner. He
was alone in the mill, the other hands having gone
to breakfast, and it is supposed that his apron caught
in the belt which carried the machinery, and having
reached up his hand to clear the apron was him
self caught, drawn up and carried round the drum
perhhaps some thousand times. When found, his
jaw had caught in a joist, which stopped the ma
chinery. His legs were broken and scattered
around the room in a hundred fragments, by corn
ing in contact with the joists, one foot being found
at the furthest extremity of the room. 'lle joist,
though made of hard wood, was splintered conside
rably from the force with which his feet were car
ried against it by the mnchinery. He was a young
man, unmarried, and of good habits, and has a
1 brother residing to this city.
RUMORS.—The following names, according to
the Washington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce, are the members that will be
agreed upon for the new Cabinet
James Buchanan, Secretary of State.
George Bancroft, Secretary of the Treasury.
John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy.
Col. W. 0. Butler, Secretary of War.
R. M. Saunders, Postmaster General.
R. J. Walker, Attorney General.
as:.) - The Annexation of TEXAS bill hen passed•
Furnishing the White House.
On the 18th ult., a bill to provide for furnishing
the White House, appropriating gO,OOO for that
purpore, was voted down on its final passage in the
Douse. On the 19th, a motion woe made to recon
sider the vote by which it was lost. In debating
this motion, Mr. Hammel said he had voted yester
day against the bill, rot because be was opposed to
it in principle, but because it was excessive, and be
cause he was opposed to the high-handed manner
in which the Chairman of the Committee on I'ub
tie Building. •(M. Pratt,) had been in the habit of
doing buiiness there. Mr. Pratt thought it a small
business to come here and talk about the President's
furniture, and upon that subject to make speeches
for home consumption, speeches for •Buncombe.'
He said that it was tree, he had directed a set of
curtains to be put up in the President's house, be
cause he was ashamed, and every decent man
ought to be ashamed of those that were there. He
had directed the finest that could be procured, and
the most becoming the place, and he toad the uphol
ster if the Government did not pay for them lie
would, and he meant to do it. He did not give the
order as chairman of the Committee on Public
Buildings, but as a private gentleman ; he had ta
ken the responsibility, and he meant to stand by it ;
and then turning to Mr. Hammett, asked him very
emphatically, • Now, air, have you ever done as
much for your country 1' (This, of course produ
ced mace laughter.) The motion to re-consider
was adopted. Then, after the rejection of various
motions, the previous question was called, and the
bill was again lost by a vote of 75 to 78. The cor
respont of the United States Gazette save, • The
Whigs generally declined voting, though a few vo
ted in the affirmative, and some in the negative.—
The reason I presume which induced any Whig to
vote in the negative was to compel the Locos to
vote for it or lose it. Heretofore they have been in
the habit of voting against every appropriation of this
kind—a large proportion of them at least—and then
demagoguing with the people against the Whigs far
making estrovegrznt appropriations; even Mr. Polk
himself and his political friends in Tennessee, did not
, hesitate in 1841, to denounce the Whigs for voting
for an appropriation of $6,000 in '39—'4o for fur
nishing the White House preparatory to its being
occupied by Gen. Harrison. The Locos had no
doubt now, but the Whigs would vote for the ap
propriation, and therefore many of them could vote
against it, and still not endanger its passage; but
they found themselves mistaken for once. The
Whigs very properly maid, if you don't think it
worth while to furnish the house for your own
President, why should we trouble ourselves about
it ! Have it your own way. Never were men in
greater quandary when they found, on taking the
yeas and nays on the passage of the bill, that it
was lost."
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole upon the Civil and Diplomatic Appropria
tion bill, to which an amendment was offered after
some time to appropriate $6,000 for tho repair of
the White House, and $14,000 for furnishing it.—
This amendment was objected to as out of order, on
the wine ground that the Chair ruled an amend
ment offered yesterday to the same bill as out of
order; namely, that the 81st rule declares that no
appropriation shall be reported in the Appropria
tion bills, or be its order as art amendment thereto,
for any expenditure not previously authorized by
law. Now there was no law authorizing this ap
propriation, and yet the chairman, Mr. Saunders,
notwithstanding, and in the face of the decision yes
terday admitted it! How consistent! The amend
ment was then adopted by the Committee, though
not without some more amiable words and passes
between the Locos. Mr. Payne, among others, ta
king occasion to express his feeling in pretty ardent
and emphatic language, in reply to Mr. Pratt's se
vere and castigating rebuke."
A Tin or Annr:s•can nv A Dori.—The Dayton
Transcript of the 12th ult., notices a singular in
stance of the sagacity of a dug. It seems that a
person named Spangler, called at the stove store of
Col. Greer, in Dayton, under pretence of wanting to
purchase some stoves. After some inquiries he left,
but soon returned apparently intoxicated, and took
a seat in the counting-room. Col. G. was soon
called out, and in his absence Spangler took the key
of the safe and attempted to depart. The dog had
been watching, and immediately nixed and detained
him until his master returned, when Spangler again
attempted to leave, but was again detained by this
self-made officer. Col. Greer's suspicions were
aroused; Spangler's pockets examined, and the key
found upon him, and restored to its place, when the
dog seemed satisfied. The thief confessed, was tures
led, and committed to prison.
(0" The Reading (Pa.,) Democrat says :—On
Friday evening last, as a men by the name of Shaef
fer and another person were returning home from a
wood-chopping match, in the neighborhood of Wal
nuttown, this county, they stopped before the house
of Mr. Jacob hell, an old man, at least 92 years of
age, when one of diem, Shaeffer, endeavored to gain
forcible entrance into the house, by smashing in the
shutters and windows with an axe that he had in
his hand. He was repeatedly warned by the old
man to desist from his undertaking, but without
effect. The old man thinking, no doubt, that he
was about being murdered, took hold of a knife,
and with a single blow sent it through his heart, and
he almost instantly expired.
DEAN, THE MURDERER.—The Lancaster
Herald and Examiner of the 26th ult., says
" Constable Hughes received lastovening a requi
sition from the Governor of Ohio for Thomas Dean,
alias Henry Thomas, who was confined in jail here
on suspicion of having murdered Mr. Edwards, of
Roos county, Ohio, last November. There is no
doubt that this is the person for whom the reward
was offered, and ho is to be taken to Boss county
fur trial.
A reward of $l,OOO had been offered by the
Governor of Ohio for the arrest of Dean, and $OOO
by others; making a total of nineteen hundred
dollars !"
cij. When we hear a man boasting of his "love
for the deer people," wo aro strongly inclined to
suspect hint fur a love of tho dear people's offices.
It reminds us of the Irishman who was about to
marry a southern girl for her property. " Will you
take this woman to be your wedded wife?" "Yes,
your rivverence, and the imagers too."
ANYTHING ELK/ll—They are making very supo
nor glaes paper in Pittsburg, Pa. We expect to
sleep in wuoden sheets sonic of these enlightened
dad i.—Exchange Pape).
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
THEIR POLICY COMPARED.
gj• The Editor of the United States Gazette in
noticing a statement from the late English work,
which applauds the corn niercial enterprize exhibited
by Americans in foreign ports in securing advanta
ges over Englishmen, makes the following remarks
to show the true secret of the success of New
Enghinders. The comparison of the internal poli
cy
of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania is iuoat stri- '
king, and shoes how mach Pennsylvania has lost
and is losing by the narrow and ignorant counsels
of the wretched party which has her interests in
keeping. Truly Pennsylvania Ilea been well called
" a 'blind giant!"
" Here," says the Gazette, e lvs have the secret
of the universal Yankee etteetts. Tire hob t
united action exists among them to an extent un
known elsewhere. Every Man on board of a wha
ler is personally interested in the success of the
voyage, and the consequence is that they have dri
ven all the rest of the world out of the oil trade.—
Almost all the packets out of New York are owned
by them in shares, and every man that has any
management is a part proprietor. Hence their suc
cess. The factories of New England are divided
into shares, and those shares are owned by the per
eons who have the management and those who
work in them. The man who enters as a mere op
erative becomes, in a little time, part owner, and his
heart and soul are in the business. Tho conse
quence is that they are driving the great capitalists
of Europe, who have about them none but person.
who receive wanes only, and cannot hope to become
owners, out of the markets of the world. The
banks are all small. They are owned by hundreds
of small capitalists, and are managed by the own
ers, who are not forced to send their capital abroad
to be invested in some great bank, giving proxies to
cashiers and presidents to act for them. Hence
their success. Every tiring is done in Now Eng
land, generally, but store particularly in Massachu
setts and Rhode Island, to foster this habit of union,
to which they are always so greatly indebted. Men
, are allowed to trade with each other in such manner
as they deem most advantageous, and when they
desire to associate themselves together to trade upon
the basis of a joint capital, which capital aloneehall
be responsible for the engagements of the associa
tion, they obtain charters, which are granted almost
as freely as they could be obtained under a general
law of incorporation. There is, consequently, no
monopoly.
Pennsylvania is, on the contrary, the favored land
of monopolies. We make banks of two, five or
thirty-five millions capital, while refusing to the in
habitants of prosperous counties the privilege of
making those twenty, fifty, or one hundred thousand
dollars capital. We prevent the owners of that
capital from associating far the purpose of mana
ging it themselves, and thus compel them to send it
to a distance, accompanied by proxies, to enable
others to manage it for them, and then we pass laws
to forbid the use of proxies, in the hope that by such
miserable interference to prevent misnaanagereent.
We forbid people nom associating fur the piirpose
of manufacturing, and then aro surprised that our
manufactuiers millet compete with those of New
England, most of whom aro directly interested in
the establishments in which they are employed.—
We load on restrictions mid liabilities, and then
wonder that this machine will not work, while the
people of New England remove restrictions, under
the impression that men will always take best care
of their interests when left free to think and act for
themselves. The action of New England is strict
ly democratic, and lends to make every workman
an owner. That of Pennsylvania is worthy of
those countries in which democracy is unknown,
and where it is deemed best that the rich should be
come richer and the poor poorer. It approaches
nearly that of England, whose policy it is that banks
and factories should always be owned by wealthy
men.
Pennsylvania did once make a step in advance
when she passed the act for the formation of limi
ited partnerships, the success of which hus been
complete. It has proved that men were not likely
to run wild when emancipated from restrictions. It
Is, however, but a poor apology for a general act of
incorporation, and it is so deemed by some of the
ablest men in France, from which country we bor.
rowed it. It might have been hoped that further
progress would be made, but our present legislators
are half a century behind the legislature that pas
sed that law.
PRICES.—Mr. Greely, in a letter croft] Wash
ington to the New York Tribune, says:
tt I have a transcript of some of the bills paid by
N'Nulty, late Clerk of the House, to James F.
Secor, and others, of New York for stationary for
Congress. The charges are atrocious. Quills at
$4O per thousand; sperm candles at 48 cents per
pound ; flat cap paper at $3 per ream, (several hun
dred reams,) and then $5O for cmirto news two
hundred reams of it. (Whoever heard of the like?)
Cartridge paper at $3 75, and medium at $6 50,
form an array of hard prices, such us I never BM
before. If Mac buys for himself as he does for
Congress, no wonder he is used up.'
Quills $4O per thousand !! ! Whew! That's
plucking the goose to some purpose.
Woenrurer. Racovany.—The $475, and the
gold watch lost by Mr. Graham, at the late fire in
New York, were recovered from tho ruins. Nearly
all the money was uninjured, on a few of the out.
side notes being scortched. The watch was utterly
useless, being broken to pieces.
There is something in being President be.
sides having offices to dispense. Thu Louisville
Journal says that Mr. Polk during his stay at Cin
einnatti, was charged at the rato of eight dollars an
hour for his room.
RE
x AHHATIzz.-A pedlar, wishing to recommend
his razors to the gaping crowd, thus addresses them
Gentlemen, the razors I hold in my hand were
mado in a cave, by the light of a diamond, in tho
province of Andalusia, in Spain. They can cut as
quick as thought, and on bright as the morning star.
Lay them under your pillow at night, and you will
find your.clf clean shaved in the morning,"
The next U. S. Senate.
On the 21st ult., the Senate of Virginia, by
vote 16 to 14, indefinitely postponed the resolution
from the House of Delegates providir g for a joint
meeting to elect a U. S. Senator in place of Mr.
gives. The reason for this revolutionary procee
ditig is to be found in the fact that the Whigs have
a majority on joint ballot. In tbe seine way and fur
the same reason the Locofcco Senate of Indiana,
have recently prevented an election for U. S. Sena
tor from that State. Besides these two vacancies,
the Legislature of Tennessee does not meet until
next December, an that Mr. Foster'. place will not
be filldd until then. Of the romaine forty-nine
members twenty-five are Locolocos and twenty.
four Whigs, as follows: 111
1111 gs. Loofocos.
Geo. Evans, Maine. J. Fairfield, Maine.
I Isaac C. Bates, Mass. L. Woopbury, N. H.
! Daniel Webster, do. C. G. Atherton, do.
J. F. Simmons, R. I. John M. Nile., Ct.
Albert C. Greene, do. John A. Dix, N. Y.
Thomas Clayton, Del. D. S. Dickinson, do.
John M. Clayton, do. James Buchanan, Peva,
James A. Pearce, Md. Daniel Sturgeon, do.
Reverdy Johnson, do. W. H. Haywood, N. C.
William Upham, Vt. D. E. Huger, S. C.
S. S. Prentiss, do. Geo. NlDuffie, do.
J. W. Huntington. Ct. W. T. Colquitt, Ga.
J. W. Miller, N. J. D. H. Lewis, Ala.
Wm. L. Dayton, do. A. P. Rugby, do.
William S. Archer, Vv. H. J. Walker, Maas.
W. P. Mangum, N. C. Jesse Speight, do.
Jchn M. Berrien, Ga. William Allen, Ohio.
Alex. Barrow, La. p. R. Atchison, Me.
Henry Johnson, do. Tos H. Benton, do.
S. Jarnagin, Tenn. James Semple, 111.
J. T. Morehead, Ken. Sidney Breese, do.
J. J. Crittenden, do. Cheater Ashley, Ark.
Thomas Corwin, Ohio. A, H. Sevier, do.
W. Woodbrides, Mi. E. A. Hannegan, Is.
24 Whigs. Lewis Cass, Mich.
25 Locofocos.
Thanks, therefore, to tho disorganizing proceed,.
ings of the Locofocoe in Virginia and Indiana, Mr.
Pout will start with one majority in the United
States Senate. But a majority so obtained cannot
be enduring.—N. Y. Tribune.
Pelles Cabinet, and the Office
lYitaters.
Judging from the letters written from Washing
ton, we might suppose that the entire attention of ,
the dominant party is directed to the formation of
a Cabinet for President Polk, and a distribution of
the offices. They all agree in representing Wash
ington as over-run with office hunters, high and
low. The Whig. of course care title about it, ea
they are in no way burthened with the responsibili
ty, of so dealing out a given number of fat places as
to satisfy fifty times as many hungry applicants.--
All the fault finding appears to be confined to the
Locofocoa, who are very justly alarmed for the safe
ty and harmony of their party. 'fire desperation of
the office seeker. may be estimated by the following
scrap which we clip from a Locofoco paper:
"Jesse Dow, Esq., the door-keeper of the House
of Representatives, at Washington, received an op.
plication front some man for an office. On being
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refused, the applicant honored Mr. Dow with a
written challenge to fight a duel. He was taken
into custody, but again discharged, promising to be.
have himself better in future."
As regards the Cabinet, our whole paper would
scarcely contain the rumors that are afloat. Each
of the many factions of the party which elected Mr,
Polk lays in a claim for a portion of the honors ;
while some of them are disposed to be exclueive.—
Mr. Buchannun's friends in Pennsylvania are ur
ging
him strongly for a place in the Cabinet, to
strnigthen his claims and chances for the sucees ,
etch to the Presidency. But they meet with for
midable opposition in the pretensions of Mr. Dal
las, which are to be promoted, it seems by breaking
down Mr. Buchanan. It is said that Mr. 1/allao
prefers that Mr. Walker should be Secretary of
State, and Mr, Walkerwlll feel very indignant if he
is disappointed in get this nomination." New
York Locofocoism is Wed between the Wright-
Van Burets interest, and their antagonists, sled
whatever may be done for one section of the party
will pretty certainly displease the other. Mr. Cal
houn is strong with a portion of the South, and it is
generally conceded that he is to retain his place fir
a few months, unless he can be ousted by some 11\
trick of the enemies, who are not scarce or remarks ,
bly quiet since the election. The eorreepondent of
the New York Tribune says
Your reader. will doubtless remember the divi,
eion caused by a certain lady, alto wife of ore of
Jackson's Cabinet, among the patty. The old sore
has been probed and opened anew, and the quarrel
between Mr. Calhoun and Old Hickory is otters}, I
ted to be revived between Mr. Calhoun and Young
Hickory. It is said that Mr. Polk is advised to get
rid of Mr. Calhoun, because if he retains him in
office, it will be said that his great abilities will ma.
nopolizo the glory of Polk's administration; beings
power behind the throne greater than the thread
itself."
Spots on the Sun.
The Boston Journal says:— , . A dark jet of an ,
common magnitude is now visible on the disc sip,
the sun. It is more then ten thousand miles in di
ameter, and its urea is greater than that of the Paci
fic ocean. This spot was first observed on the 13th ,
ult., near the eastern limb of the sun, and a little
above his equatorial diameter. It has now advan
ced nearly to the centre of the disc, and will occupy
seven ur eight days more in passing mows
to the western limb where it will disappear. It
cannot be seen without difficulty by the naked eye,
but it is shown distinctly with a telescope eight or
ten inches in length. I making observations nela- ,
ring to the sun, the eye should be carefully pretee-I by means of colored glass, or a piece of window
glass rendered quite dark by the smoke of a lamp.
Besides the principal spot now visible on the
sun's disc, their are five others of sufficient &men- ,
sions to be seen with a 52 inch achromatic telescope.
The sun has not been entirely free from spots for
several weeks. On the 31st ofJanuary, fifteen were
counted, though most of them wine comparatively
smell.
The theory most generally adopted by Astrono
mers in regard to these spots, that they are portions
of tho solid and obaquo mass of the sun, seen
through openings in the luminous atmosphere or
phosphorescent clouds with which that body is sur
rounded.
A Mon Comrcimsar.—Sir B—
an Irish Knight, was married to the daughter of
Lord C----, a connection of which he was very
proud. Boasting of this union one day to a female
friend, he observed that " his lordship had paid hiss
the highest compliment in his power. He had U.
ven daughters," mid he, " and he gave me the
°tildes!, and he Could me, too, that if he had 001
oulder I should have her.
A MAYOR AT LAST.--The eigth trial for the
election of a Mayor of the city of Boston tools
place of Friday, the 21st ult., and resulted in the
election of Tawas H. DAVIS, the Native Amer
ican candidate. Davis had 4862 votes—Parkas
(Whig) 4376. Scattering 323. The Locos ran
no candidate.