THE JOURNAL. ***** PRINCIPLILS...II.IIPORTED SY TRUTH.] lIHNTINGPON, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1849 flooveris 11001 , ER'S SUPERIOR WRITING ItiK for sale at the office. TEkVIS: The "ITUNTINODON JOURNAL" if pOblielled at the fallevving rates. vis likl,/f5 a year, if paid is advance ; $20)01 if paid during the year, aad 114,60 if not paid until after the expiration of the year. The above terms to be adhered to in all cases. No subscription taken for less than six months, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. MCMURTRIE & Co., have just received a splendid assortment of Spring and Summer Goods, which are attracting a crowd of customers to the old Lomat Corner." Their stock is truly an elegant one. [Cr Major D. McMearatx, it will be seen, has opened an Oyster Saloon, in the basement of Snare's Row. The Major,being an old sol dier, and passing unharmed througb the Mexi can war, of course can't be beat in anything which he undertakes. He is a clever fellow too, and cannot fall recek ring a liberal share of public favor. Call and try County Meeting. The Whig County Committee, it will be seen, have celled a County Meeting for Tuesday evening of the first week of April Court. We hope to see a general turn out on this occasion, of all the frilltitiif Taylor and Johnston. To render our recent tate and National victory of importance, we must keep up an unbroken or ganization. We must stand by and support those we have placed in power, so long as they stand by our principles, and faithfully adminis ter the affairs of government. Turn out, then, one and all, and let us have an old fashioned Whig gathering at the April Court. BRADY TOWNSHIP. -In all parts of the coun ty our friends have done well at the Spring Election. In Brady township we are informed the Locos did not even make a show of resist ance, and the whole Whig Ticket prevailed throughout. Our friends could have elected bath Inspectors, but out of courtesy to their opponents, they gave them one. This was right. We always like to see magnanimity and fair play. The Packets. The Packet Boats are now making their reg ular trips. The travelling community will be pleased to learn that all the old obliging and gentlemanly Captains—Messrs. KAaNs, ELLx- OTT, CLUITION and HOOrer-are retained on the Juniata. Although not very rapid, there is no more pleasant mode of travelling than on these admirably conducted Packet Boats. Removals. The office-holders and their organs are corn plaining that the new Administration is making removals. Well, this is to be expected ; but their complaints and whining Should receive no attention. The People of both parties expect and desire that removals should be made, and it matters little whether the incumbents and their organs like it or not. What the public inter ests and the public will demands, cannot be stopped by the miserable whining of the inter ested few. The Relief Notes. In accordance with the wishes of the People, Goy. Johnston recommended, in his annual message, that provision be made by the Legis lature, for withdrawing from circulation the mutilated and defaced Relief Notes. But up to this time, no provision of this kind has been made. The mutilated notes still continue in circulation, and are every day growing worse. The People expect and loudly demand that the recommendation of the Governor in regard to these notes be carried out by the Legislature. The session is rapidly drawing to a close, and we would advise the members who expect to retain the confidence and support of the people, to move in this matter at once. Too much time has already been spent in petty private legislation, in which the Public at large are not interested. And we hope to see the few re maining days of the session devoted to the pub lic interests. If provision is not made for can celling the mutilated trash which now forms the almost exclusive circulation, we advise the People to select representatives for the next session with a view to this very question. The condition of these notes are not only a sore an noyance, but in many instances, a loss to the citizens. It requires the most careful hand ling to prevent many of them from falling to pieces; and they are becoming so abarrlutely filthy, that they are causing an unpleasant Brasil throughout the State. Wo be to the present Legislature, if the cause of this stench be not re moved. Appointtrients. Wm. B. Nonais, formerly of Mifflin county, has been appointed Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia. DAVID COOPER, Esq., of Mifflin county, has bean appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Minesota Territory. Political Grave. We have frequently heard it remarked that the office of Canal Cotmnissioner was the polit ical grave of every man who accepted it. The remark may be true in every case, but we think Israel Painter intends giving his a depth Which has not been reached by any of his predecessors. Should he continue as be has begun, his politi cal grave will be like the one described by Sen ator Hannegan for President Polk, "so deep that the band of the resorrectioniet will never each him." JOHN HANikg. The name of Judge Banks is mentioned at Washington in connexion with a Foreign Mis sion. Few men are as well qualified, and none more deserving of such a conslderaton. Judge Banks wotild be an honor to the country and to the Administration, in such a capacity, and his appointment would gratify a host of friends." —Harrisburg Telegraph. The following commentary on the above, by the editor of the Butler is so entirely to our liking, that we cannot refrain from publish ing it. It is true to the letter. The Whig says: —Our +ft( and ablr. tb dected and able contemporary of the Telegraph must have been in an ironical mood when he penned the above Para•;raph. Surely Mr. Penn must have been joking when he spoke of John Banks as " deserving" of relag patron age. Perhaps no man in the Commonwealth contributed more to the defeat of Gen. Irvin, in 1517, than John Banks ; indeed, we have been informed that his vote and entire influence that year was thrown in favor of Francis R. Shunt. During the late Presidential canvass hi.; name was published in the Locofoc , , papers as a " bolter" whd had refused to support Gen. Tay lor. this was never contradicted, and our im pression Then and now is, that he was a supporter of Gen. Cass. But even admitting that we are mistaken in regard to this, we would still have ample reasons for objecting to the ele vation of such a political drone as John Banks. What service has he ever performed for the Whig party? What sacrifice of time or money 1 has he made in the cause which working! witigs have for years been laboring to advance. None whatever. He has even made it his boast 1 that " he never performed a partizan service in his life." Benefits have been showered upon him by the party, and the only return he has made was a cold indifference as to its fate, if not open apostacy. We trust no such men as John Banks will meet with favor at the hands of the National Executive--if they do, there will be but little inducement to political exertion here after. Newspaper Postage. By a circular from qtr. COLLAMER, the new Postipastet General, we learn that trancient newspapers, (that is, papers not sent from the office of publication,) will hereafter be subject to newspaper postage only; that is, one cent for any distance in the same state, and one and a half cent for any distance exceeding one hun dred miles, where the newspaper is sent from one state into another.—But postage on such newspapers is in all cases to be pre-paid, as here- ' 1 tofore. Special election in Adams County. WILLIAM McSHERRY, Esq., the Whig condi -date, has been returned to the Legislature from Adams county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Cooper, by upwards of 1800 majority, there being no organized op• position to him. Baltimore Conference. I payers of the Commonwealth that the superflu- ! The New York Sun says, President Taylor The following are the appointments, by the ous number should be dispensed with and the and his Cabinet have decided that every offi number redued to one. Baltimore Conference for Huntingdon District I Elected by the people to an important station cer of the Army and Navy, and every man con- John Miller, P. E. Lewistown Station—, I have endeavored to discharge its duties faith- nected with the civil service of the govern- Samuel V. Blake. Lewistown Circuit—Tho- fully and fearlessly. I have always cheerfully meet, shall be removed from office if he engage mas Tanyhill, J. Gruber. Huntingdon—James joined with my colleagues in furnishing such in- in a duel. The President is said to have re- Stevens, Ephraim McCollum. Warrior's Mark formation as may have been desired by either marked that he had served forty years in the —Wm. R. Mills, John S. MeMurry. Bald branch of the Legislature. The resolution of Eagle—F. Gearhart. Birmingham—G. Guyer. the House oth instant would have reeeived my Army, without engaging in a duel, and that a Hollidaysburg—James Sanks. Williamsburg— most respectful consideration had it not been blackguard who insults a gentleman, was not J. G. McKehan, Alex. E. Maclay. Concord—' ! taken out out of the office and concealed from worth the powder it would take to shoot him, Jos. N. Springier, J. H. C. Dosh. Shirleys- me. But my own self respect, my conviction even if there were no crime in doing so. burg—Robert Beers, David Shoaff. Trough of public duty and my sense of what is due to Creek—Zane Bland, Adam Hockenberry. Bed- , the representatilies of the people, all impelled me I Santa Anna. ford—Wesley Howe, P. E. Waters. East Bed- to refuse my sanction to a report got up by a ford—Cambridge Graham. Cumberland—Tho- I clique in secret conclave, and fur a purpose for- ! This cruel tyrant and real foe to the welfare mas Myers. Cumberland Mission—J. W. sign to the interests of the Commonwealth. lof his country is again meddling in the affairs Ewing. Frostburg—Thomas Switzer, Henry I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Hoffman. Alleghany—S. L. M. Conser. Yours, &c. of Mexico. He has entered into communica i Rev. Jowl A. Gear, has been appointed P. J. M . POWER. lion with his friends, and succeeded in institu- E. for Northumberland District. I All this trouble arises from the fact that Mr. ling an insurrectionary movement in his behalf, Longstreth is unable to attend to the notice of which threatens to be fortnidable. The gov ernment is on the alert, and is making prepare his office and will not resign. Should he con tinue to hold on, and remain absent from the tions to crush the rebellion whenever it shows Board, it is evident from the conduct of Painter its head. The people are awakening to the be that the operations of the Canal Board will be lief that many or their misfortunes and rever entirely suspended ! A beautiful state of af- ses were owing to this hypocritical despot.— fairs, truly! , He, on the contrary, writes from Kingston, un- Ider date Dec. 21, a cringing letter, apvaling Removals froln to the sympathies of the people and portraying Col. Samuel D. Patterson, who has been su- himself a martyr, suffering and bleeding for perceded as Naval Agent at Philadelphia, is the his poor country. The letter was written for editor of the Norristown Register ; and in the , the public, for, in conclusion, he authorizes his last number of that paper, he uses the follow- friend, Col. Navaro, to publish it as a defence ing language. We commend it to the attention of justice and his honor. We trust no one will of those who have been condemning the Ad- „ be deceived by it so as to yield themselves up ministration for making removals: I to the control of his selfish and insatiable am •• No Democrat can consistently ask to be bition. Justice to him would be hanging, and continued in office under an administration of as to his h ono r , it is a u•lece° f au d ac it y f or hi m whose policy he does not and cannot approve. - • Indeed, by doing so he would forfeit his claim to mention the word in connection with him upon the confidence of his own party friends, self. for he would be manifesting a disposition to ; yield the higher question of principles to the I SUSPENDING OPERATIONS Is TOE Coss Mix.. meaner consideration of dollars and cents.—lt —At a meeting of the Coal operators, held at would be absurd, too, to assert that there are Pottsville on Wednesday afternoon, it was re not in the ranks of General Taylor's immediate adherents and supporters, an abundance of men solved to suspend mining coal for three weeks, just as well qualified to administer the duties of or until all the purchasers in the city agree to the several offices in the gift of the President, pay 52,25 for red ash and $2 for white ash,lt a f s ., rf il t e h n e , r e c i a t t: ;LIT , h w o h l t i l a i e s T r. ; d a; : cd n. dt Mou n t Carbon. All the operators were pres ensly and zealously for his election, to super- ent, embracing the heaviest portiondf the trade. cede every Democrat 1,1 office with the least They ail signed the agreement sidle delay, and confer his favors upon his own partizan adherents." C7' We learn by the Montrose Register, that Mr. James Adams, of Hartford, Susque hanna county, died on the 27th ult., aged one hundred and four years. He was a native of Massachusetts, and a volunteer in the Revolu tionary war. Stage Accident, On Friday night 16th inst., one of the eta get running on the northern route between Blairsville and Pittsburg was precipitated down a precipice nearly perpendicular, forty or fifty feet into a small creek. There were four passengers in the coach at the time, one of whom, Capt. Geo. W. PENNINGTON, of Pitts burg, was killed on the spot. Irr The Philadelphia Inquirer says, the Ward elections throughout the city, on Friday last, resulted quite favorable to the Whig cause. The friends of Taylor and Fillmore were suc cessful in nearly every Ward in the city, while the result in the county are also highly grati fying. Another Accident. A laboring man by the name of - Kelly, employed on Paxton's section above this place, was severely injured by a premature explosion a few days since, while engaged in blowing rocks. Tea Winchester Virginian says An old farmer observed the other day, that he had nev er seen the wheat come better out of Winter.— The open fall seems to have enabled the wheat to recover, in a great measure, from the effects of fly." Pennsylvania Legislature. A resolution has passed both branches of the Legislature to adjourn on the 10th of April. The Usury bill has been defeated in the Sen ate 23 to 7—the object of the bill was to repeal the standard rate of 6 per cent. and allow peo ple to make their own contracts. The bill for the completion of the North Branch canal, was lost in the House, 41 to 45. A motion to reconsider this vote has since been made and carried, but no further action had on the bill. The bill declaratory of the fourth section to act supplementary to the charter of the Penn sylvania Railroad has passed. This bill relates to consequent damages, in which some of the citizens of this town feel a deep interest. Nothing else of interest to our readers trans pired during the pact week. A Flare up in the Canal Hoard. The Pa. Telegraph says t Mr. Painter the new Canal Commissioner seems to take pride in making himself the tool of a set of political desperadoes who areanxions to create trouble and make difficulty whenever they can. Last week, (by previous concert,a3 it appears,) a resolution was passed by the House of Representatives, asking of the Board of Canal Commissioners certain information respecting the debts due and money needed for the repairs of the public works, and in the evening placed in the hands of Mr. Painter, who without the knowledge of Mr. Power, took the resolution to his hotel and with the aid of the clerk and others engaged in the secret °v.:ration, manu factured a report which was sent into the House on Saturday last. This was the first Intimation that Mr. Power had of the matter; and he immediately address ed to the 'House the following letter, which ex plains the transaction. On Monday last Mr. Painter addressed anoth er commmunication to the House in which he intimates a charge of falsehood against Mr. Power, and which is so personally abusive that all intercourse between them is suspended, and with it the transaction of business in the Board. Mr. Power left here this morning on a visit to Mr. Longstreth: A CHEROKEE'S OPINION or GEN. TAYLOR.— CANAL COAINIISSIONER'S OFFICE, W. P. Ross, a delegate from the Cherokee In. Harrisburg, March 19, 1849. f diens, paid a visit to Gen. Taylor a few days Hon. Wm. F. PACKER, Speaker of the Hotted of Representatives t ago in company with a Choctaw, and in a letter SiR ,-I understand that Israel Painter, a mom- thus speaks of it ber of the Board of Canal Commissioners, has When introduced, he received us very cor addressed to the House of Representatives a re- dially, and said we were the people among ply to a resolution of inquiry in relation to the whom he had been. I expressed to him the debts due on the public works and the cost of gratification the Cherokees felt that he was now keeping up the same for the present year. I President of the United States. Ile thanked deem it due to myself to say to the House that me repeatedly, and seemed to feel deeply. I the discourtesy of this act is equalled only by like the old man much, and heard him make a the manner in which this report was concocted. speech to the Red Skins long before he ever The resolution was passed on the 9thof March, dreamed of the Presidency. Ile was sometime immediately sent into the Board, taken from the in command of our frontier, and was the best fiiles of the office by Mr. Painter and its con- officer we ever had thefe. He is well acquain. tents studiously concealed by him from me un- ted with the border, and with many of our peo til Saturday last, when he presented a draft of pie, and I have great hope that he will make a a report which, under such insultiug conduct I good and just President. refused either to read or sign. My refusal to sign that report, in addition to the reasons eta- I Father Matthew Coming. ted, was based upon strong presumtive evidehce Ina letter from FATTIER MAT rue.. to M. Al that it was clandestinely prepared out of the i • place of discharging official business by persons len, Esq., of Pittsburgh, dated at Cork, Feb. in no wise connected with the improvements of 21, 1819, published in the Pett.tburg Gazette of the Commonwealth, who have recently, through Monday last, this great Apostle of Temper the columns of the newspaper press evinced a ante says: greater disposition to malign public officers than ' to promote the public good. Besides this, one ; " Now that the position of Ireland of the officers recently appointed was secretly bears a brighter prospect, and that my requested to make report to a single member of health is sufficiently re-established, to the Board, of the business of his line, in order permit me, without risk, to cross the to manufacture statements derogatory to the official character of his predecessor. With the Atlantic, I propose myself that long de knowledge of these facts the House will not be sired privilege in April. During the astonished that I refused to be a party to a ensuing month of May, l hope for the scheme to take more money from an almost ex. happiness of seeing you and my other haunted treasury than can be used before the meeting of the next Legislature. 'lf the House friends in Pittsburg." are satisfied4vith a report made out under such lie will probably pass through Huntingdon circumstances, it is their business, not mine l on his route west. but if they are satisfied that a single member of the Board shall assume to discharge the duty of three it is due to the the overrthened tax 02 A part of Louis Philippe's race horses were sold at auction on the 15th ult. A great number of foreigners attended the sale and high prices were obtained. Louis Napoleon bought an untried colt for 4400 francs. pass through Dublin on their way to America, FREE MASONRY AMONG THE Isntaxs.—Let- are nearly all people who belonged to the mid tern from California to January 20th have been dle classes of society. The upper classes can received in Boston. A volunteer is Col. Fre. no more exist than the lower, and those who mont's expedition writes that he has been nine have money enough to leave are doing so. months a prisoner—his life having been spared and his liberty finally granted him he says, JAM. 1317CHANAN.--This gentleman has ac , ' cepted a complimentary invitation, from the on account of his having been discovered by democratic members of the Legislature, to visit the Indians to be a free-mason, of which fra- the seat of government. This, lie says, had ternity, it seems, many of the red men were been his previous determination, 44 not only for members. the purpose of meeting old friends, but for the privilege of mating nes, ones." From this we Judge that Mr. Buchanan has not given up the idea of 46 serving his country." Especially as he takes care to throw in an extravagant amount of flatteting enconiums upon the " great prin ciples of Democratic policy," and the 44 firm ness and ability" with which his friends in the Legislature have sustained them. Mr. Buchan an, doubtless, has an eye to the political race course of '52. These old racers are always anxious for another teqt.—Mcadrine J•firptcl. Qom' The bill erecting a new county out of parte of Beaver and Mercer, to be called Law rence, has finally pained both brhnches of our State Legislature. t GEOOOz Gwrz„ Whig, has been elected Mayor of the City of Reading by a majority of 200 rotes. Gen. Scott at Washington. The gallant and veteran ll,ro Of the nation who commenced his brilliant career at Lundy's Lane, is again at Washington, l: Bing been in vited back to his Old post by President Taylor. The Washington correspondent of the Balti more American, under date of the 19th instant says The skillful and gallant Gen. Scott is here, and looking himself again—exceedingly well—many are calling on him to pay their re spects, in a sense of gratitude for the honor re flected on his country, even more, if possible, by hie humanity than his valor. It in a fact equally honorable and true as to our two most renowned Commanders, Scott and Taylor, that no two men in this country would be less apt than they to involve us in war, by any predilection for that barbarous ex pedient for settling national disputes. For this, far more that for their achievements, do they deserve the esteem and admiration of all good The meeting of these two veterans is said to have been as cordial as might be expected from old brother soldiers, whose brilliant deeds have gone far to efface the stain that was cast upon our national escutcheon by the manner in which the war was brought on. Duelling Prohibited. IRISH DISTRESS. -In the county of Mayo, three magistrates are receiving out-door relief for themselves and families, from the different parish unions. This fact is sufficient to show that the destitution is not confined to the peas antry. In fact, the 1500 emigrants who daily Mr. Mannegan's Appointment. The appointment of Mr. Hannegan as Minis ter to 13,1 in, has excited a strong feeling of disapprobation, not only in Washington but I WASHINGTON, March 13, 1849. elsewhere, and the development of every addi- The new Senators are not all generally known tional fact connected with it, seems to place it to your readers. Mr. Norris of New whoHump :l4,7;ol ea in succeeds eni b A p l r r . 0f A4 .4 1, e 11: ‘, 7 ;e 10,,,fa Rep only r In a still more discreditable light. It is not only regarded as a gross outrage, from the man- I resentatives, r at the tither end of the Capitol, - ner in which it was secured, but discreditable and distinguished himself there, not so much to the country, from the unfitness , of the man to by his speech making propensi'y as by his atten represent us properly at so important a court. Lio a n b t o o u the t s s d u t e i a e r a s o o f f; t a h g e o C n as i t rn ,u i t ri t e e l e , R t c , , , o o m , c r il a t o It has been said in letters from Washington, that opposed to the extension ' of Slavery, and was the appointment was solicited at the last me- in favor of the election of Cass and Butler. ment, by some leading Whigs of the Senate, Mr. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who sue andcccoend; bin. res a N s ge e s , c was m d a i n s nigiul!seligo Committee a o s i t , it has been intimated iu private circles that Mr. Webster was one of those Whigs. Such, Foreign Relations, and by his active efforts to however, was not the case, as the following secure the election of General Taylor.—Though letter from Mr. W. abundantly proves, while it unwilling to spare Mr. S. hem the Senate of the United States, it is understood that the po throws some additional light upon the affair.— sition of Secretary of the Home Department We may add here, that the appointment was, was tendered to him by the new Prestdent, end as has been stated, unanimously confirmed, respectfully declined. Few more useliil mem ixteen Senators only being present. Others bars than Mr. Smith are to be found in either like Mr. Webster, were ignorant of the nomi.ouse of Congress. s I Mr. Seward, who succeeds Mr. Dix, has nation having been made ; and had it been been so long and so favorably known to the known to them, it would most certainly have Americah people, that nothing could be added been rejected by me to the stock of information which fdkr readers already possess in regard to his political WASHINGTON, March 12, 1810. history. He succeeds one of the ablest men of My Dear Sir have received your letter the Senate, but possesses the ability to sustain. of the 10th, respecting Mr. Hannegan'sappoint. the position hitherto filled by a Dix and a Silas' ment as Minister to Prussia. That appoint- Wright. merit can have surprised nobody more than it Nor will it be necessary for me to speak of a surprised me. The Senate having completed gentleman so distinguished in Pennsylvania for all its business, as I supposed, I left the Senate many years, as has been James Cooper. To chamber between six and seven o'clock on Sun- say that he will fully sustain in the National day morning, the 4th of March. I had never Senate the reputation of the Keystone State heard a syllable of any intention of nominating would be the utterance merely of a truism. Hannegan as Minister to Prussia, or for 1 'Mr. Wales, the successor of Mr. Clayton, is any other office ; and supposed it certain that no a lawyer of considerable eminence, a gentleman nomination, of any kind, would be sent to the of great personal amenity, who has made a v e . Senate after that hour. ' ry favorable impression on his brother Sena- When I heard the next day, that Mr. Hanne. tors, and upon all others who had the pleasure gnu had been nominated to a foreign mission, of his acquaintance. and that the nomination had been confirmed I Benjamin C. Howard, who succeeds tempo at once contradicted it, saying that I had been racily Mr. Reverdy Johnson, is a Democrat of in my seat every moment through the whole of the old school, and one of Maryland's noblest the session of Saturday and Saturday night, and sons. He is personally very popular, with men until broad daylight on Sunday morning, when of both political parties. He will, of course, the Senate was about breaking up, and I had only hold his seat in the Senate until the next • heard nothing of any such nomination. meeting of the Maryland Legislature, unless I look upon the nomination. miler the circum- the Democrats should, in the meantime, sue stances, as one of the most disreputable pro- reed in changing the political complexion of ceedings recorded in the history of the Govern- that body, which is not very probable. , ment. I am, with much respect, Mr. William C• Dawson, of 13 , orgia, who Yonr ob't serv't, ; succeeds Mr. Johnson (appointed by the Gov- DAM.. Woman, ernor of that State for the unexpired term of Mr. Colquitt, resigned,) is a sound Whig end • California Intelligence. ! an able man ; though perhaps not quite so rdis tinguished as a public debater as was Mr. Col- Advices from California to the 24th Decem- quilt. Mr. Dawson was in the IlouAe everal ber were received at Boston on Monday. The years since, and was then considered e. very San Francisco Star of that date reports further valuable member. He is a gentleman or fine in the new position to which w he I lL ue b b ce n n f el e e n v c a e proceedings of the people in favor of a Conven- a P n e d " i 7 n al : d P o PZ t r y ., ( T i • n : d f t 7"c.ilpitory manners, lion for the establishment of a Provisional Gov ernment. It would appear also by the report ted. of a trial for murder before Judge Dimrnick, Mr. Morton, of Florida, who succeeds Mr. I , in Ve t s h t a c t o s tt t , a , v e a o s f o G ne en o e f ra tir moat active t. promoters in of San Jose, that crime can be punished is, perhaps, the Largest man now Taylor in ' the Senate,there. Three men, Davis, Campbell, and Freer, were found guilty, by a Jury, and executed ac- being of giant frame, very dark complexion, h e i a s irl fo t i o lo be an e a b soti cording to sentence on the 186, in presence of jet black hair, and perhaps fifty years of age. a large body of citizens. They confessed their Hei,s io a to have made n ppears g a . very favoral7lern mi l , e man, and his intercourse wilt, and embraced the Roman Catholic faith. impreesr: Three other men, Cotton, Woolard and Lee, Mr. Pierre Soule, of Louisiana, who sue were convicted of being accessories, and sen- reeds Mr. Johnston, is a native of France, a tented to be whipped and confined one month in democrat, and one of the ablest men in the Uni ted States, as was fully establi,heil by his for the stocks. C. E. Picket, tried at Fort Sacra- mer short Senatorial career, after the death of l mento, on a charge of the murder of Mr. Alder- Mr. Barrow, whose unexpired term he was se man, was acquitted. . i n i tl m rp a a s i k t e r i a l o t i o ve render his style of oratory lected to fill. His French accent is just auffi- Immigrants are still flocking into the country cti; I from all quarters, and a population of 100,000 Mr. Whitcomb, formerly Commissioner of was anticipated before the close of the present the General land office, and more recently Gov summer. The cold weather--which exceeds tenor of Indiana; who succeeds Mr. Donegan, is not, perhaps, as eloquent a delnitor as the anything known there within fifty years — had latter, though as a statesman he is• ' checked the movement to the diggings, but the superior. lie woo elected by the P e i rn ' o r' c s ra l t7: crews on the coast were preparing to go. As Legislature of Indiana in preference to Mr. 11., lan evidence of the almost total absence of in- b"."`f of his more d'cidcd oPP.•; , tion to tl.o I dustry, it is mentioned that 100,000 bushels of 'N G ' 7 :71 - ne . lcis o f Slavery. l , ino is, who s u i• r Breese, wheat had rotted in the country for the want of is a gentleman of ple ae i r iT ma i,;:;: , 1 people to gather it. though he has never been distinguished either The following items are derived by the Even ing Traveller from letters received in Boston While in San Francisco, real estate had ad vanced five hundred per cent., within twelve months, in the Sandwich Islands it had fallen forty per cent. The latter Islands are fast be coming deserted, and it was expected that after the whaling season is over, every white man that can, will leave for California. As to the chances of obtaining the precious metal, the writer says:—<