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HUNTINGI)UN, TUESDAY', FE11.12, 1850,
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thanks for favors from Harrisburg.
Hon. S. CALVIN, will also accept our thanks
for favors from Washington.
another column we publish the re
marks of Wm. F. PAcastt, Esq., of Lycorning,
delivered in the Senate, in opposition to the re
peal of the $3OO exemption law, passed last
winter. Mr. Packer is'an opposition Senator,
but we do not appreciate his remarks the less
on that account. The argument contained in
this splech is creditable to his head, and the
sentiments show that his heart is in the right
place. Mr. Packer is an old Printer, and it is a fact
highly creditable to the craft, that they are
ways found on the side of the honest poor man's
rights.
CO" We invite attention to Mr. Ball's icorrli
ing letter, given in another column. The
Canal Commissioners and their friends in the
Legislature have waked up the wrong customer.'
Explosion in New York.
In another column will be found an account
of a most heart-rending disaster, which occur
ed recently in New York. Up to Thursday
last, forty-five corpses had been discovered and
liken from the ruins. It is stated that there
were 120 persons in the building when the ex
plosion took place.
Police Corruption.
The new Philadelphia city government, pis
sed in power by the pure ,4 Independents" and
Natives," don't turn out to be so unspotted
after all. It appears that four police otficefs
were arrested in that city the other day fnr
taking bribes from a woman charged With
maintaining a nuisance and for whom a warrant
lad been issue. What has become of the pron . )-
Wed reform previous to the election
tl7 A. 0. 'Pascals, Esq., editor of ths
HOl
idaysburg Standard, has been apposnted• State
Agent on the Portage Railroad. Glad to' hear
it. Trargh is a clever fellow, notwithstanding
Vs ultra Locofueoism, and only needs to be
treated well to do the handsome thing in return.
We rejoice that his party has given him an op
portunity to get a little of that which all ptin
ters sadly need.
The Apportionment Bill.
An apportionment bill has been reported in the
Home of Representatives at Harrisburg, which
is the most infamous effort at a wholesale gerry
mander ever attempted in Pennsylvania. The
bill as reported, would give, as parties now
stand, a decided majority to Locofocoism in
both Houses. Indeed, out of the one hundred
members, the Whigs could not count on more
than 33; and of the 33 Senators, the Whigs
could not secure more than 10 or 11 at the out
side. So outrageous and palpably unfair is this
bill, that even the Penuiyfranion, and other
Locofoco papers, are out against it. They fear
the consequences of the indignation its passage
would excite throughout the State. Locoloco
sem murt be getting very fegrful of the spread
of Whig principles in Pennsylvania, when they
consider it necessary to resort to such unb:usli
ing unfairness to sustain their ascendency in the
Legistature.
J. W. Killings'', Esq.
This gentleman represents Lebanon county
in the State Legislature, and althou,th one of the
youngest members in the House is already at:
tracting considerable attention lot MS fine busi
ness qualities and his ability and fluency in de
bate. A correspondent of the Carlisle Volun
teer says " lie has a good intellect, good jade•
ment, and good practical common sense. He is
a quick ready debator, end a very clever fel
low." This is quite a compliment coming from
a Locofoco source; and it gives us great plea
sure to know that our young friend is worthy of
it. In stature, Mr. Killinger is not a large man,
but then' he possesses a sdtli t about as large es
his body. All flier shine otit in his in
teresting end rather handsome countenance.'
Always pleasant and cheerful, his presence is a
perfect antidote fot every thing like desponden
cy. To meet and cohVerse with him,' al ways
seems to have a salutary influence on our health.
In short he is a gentleman we highly esteem
both as a mun and a Whig. The Whigs of Leb
anon have great cause to congratulate themselves
on thetr choice of a' Representatiie at . Ileitis ,
burg.
CETThe appointment of A. W. Benedict,
}leg., to the post or Deputy SecrefarY of the
Commonwealth, is spoken of by the Press gen=
erally in the most flatteling tertns.
OSI , A young man named Thomas P. bang
well, of Mifflin county, committed' suicide last
week by hanging himself to a sapling. No cause
is assigned for the rash act.
MARVA:M.—Some sensible member of the
Legislature has introduced a bill providing that
no application for divorce shall be granted; in•
future, unless public notice has previously been
given in a newspaper.
Acgl'iT'tED.—•David C. Knepley, tried at
narrisburg for the murder of his father, has
been acquitted on the ;round of insanity.
Election of Judges.
The Elective Judiciary Bill is still under de
bate in the House. Mr. PORTER, of Northamp
ton, takes ground against the measure, and in
Concluding his speech the other day he warned
the Democratic party, as he styled them, from
being caught in this trap. He aald he hail ut
tered a similar warning in the Convention
which met in 1837.38 to amend the Constitu
tion, when they took so much patronage from
the Governor. He had then told them that it
would lie ruinous to the party, sod the correct.
ness of his views had been made evident by sub
sequent events. Since that time, dietrarticin and
disaffection had been growing up in the party,
and would increase. The bond of Union which
bound the party firmly together had been brok
en, and in view Of the results of that experiment,
he warned them against proceeding still further,
anti taking from the Governor the last remnant
of his patronage. Mr. Calhoun !Ong since de
clared that the Lcietifoco patty was "held tdgeth
er by the cohesive power of public Plunder,"
and we now have the sante opinion reiterated
by James M. Porter, a leading Locofoco mem
ber of the present Legisiathre.
Messrs. Ssivssa and Bunnka; Whigs, made
able Speeches in faior of the bill as passed hist
session; and O'n Ftiday last, w•e feat that oitr
representative, Mr. Con NYX, calnnienced an ar
gurn'ent against the bill, whieli concluded on
Saturday. His effort/ We are informed, w•as
quite an able one. IC friend at Harrisburg
Writes as that Mr. Corriyiii.esires a suspension,
of opinidn as to his cdbrse on this measure; unfit
his speech is tldblished. We shall lay it before
his constituents at the earliest moment possible.
We still incline to the belief that the bill as
passed last session will be again adopted with
out amendment.
Ova PENAL LAWS.—The Senate has before it
a bill introduced by Mr. Matthias,, ptottidini
for such atrannentiMent df 11 - fe penal laws of the
Ccininfinwealth, as to make it lawful for the
Governor, in all cases ofconviction of the crime
of murder in the first degree, to commute the
punishment of death, on the recommendation of
the court and jury before whom the case was
tried, to imprisonment for life. There are
strong arguments to be advanced in favor of such
a measure, and it is to be hoped it may re
ceive the careful attention of the Legislature.
The Usury Laws.
in the Senate, on the 22d tilt., says the Pa.
Telegraph, Mr. Walker, from the judiciary
Committee, reported a bill relating to the usury
law, and providing that hereafter it shall be
laWfut Itir all persons to pay and receive such
rate of interests for the loan of money, on any
promissory note, draft, acceptance, bills paya
ble, or bills of exchange, drawn for any time
not exceeding twelve months, glowing out of
commercial or business transactions or contracts
therefor, as the parties may agree upon in writ
ing; but that no greater rate of interest than
six per cent, shall be charged on any judgment,
after the date of the rendition thereof, entered
in any courts of this commonwealth, although
such judgment may be founded ;Toil a writing
stipulating a higher rate of interest. It further
provides that the act shall not be construed to
apply to any loan, where the sum or thing lent
shall be assured by any grant, charge, or incum
brance of real estate, nor do any loan dr dis
count by .y bank or banking association,
I 1 '"Alpha," the Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune ' better known as
"Oliver Oldschool," says that Col. Webb, Min
ister to Austria, and James Johnston, Consul to
Glasgow, will be rejected by the Senate. Very
likely.—juniara Register.
Of course Mr. Johnston must he rejected.
His brother had the audacity to allow the Peo..
ple of Pennsylvania elect him Governor, much
to the chagrin of Locofoco leaders and little
touted rivals, who will unite in a magnanimous
effort to secure the rejection. We suppose they
will strut about as the very Giants of the land,
in point of influence and power, after they ac
complish the overthrow of a poor but very in
telligent, and worthy young man, who happens
to lie the brother of Wm. F. Johnston—the
cornittoh object of their hatred and jealousy.
Ambassador to Russia,
ft' is stated that P}esi'dent Tnytott has nomi
nated to the Sehafe Han. Nomt. S. Bnown,
Whig Ex.:GoV•ernoi of Tenriindbe, to' lie Ambas
sadOr to Russia, vice Aarnca P. ff.'iGhY, of
kaharal, formerly United States Senator, who
has recently returned from that' dov.
ilnowsi is an ardent friend of the Araelican
Union, and was defeated last August wileit . a .
candidate for re-electibh fo the Executive Chair
of Tennessee, because he denounced the South
ern threat of disunion, era declared that he
would not give one foot of the soil of gfinker's
Hill for all New Mexico and California.
UNION of Com,EuEs.—The Synod of the Ger
dum Reformed Church, which assembled at
Harrisburg last week, after an animated and in
teresting discussion, has decided in favor of the
proposition to unite Franklin and Marshal Col
leges, under the name of the a FRANKLIN AIia
!MAL Coi.mene," to be located at Lancaster
City.
A LoCOimco Itssot.ve.—The Locofoco Con
vention of Schuylkill county, (Pa.) assembled
at Pottsville on Monde) fast, to nominate dele
gates to the State Convention, instructed those
l it appointed to shpport Hon. Ed'ward . H. Hub
le)% as the candidate for Canal Commissioner.
Among No resolutions reported was the fol
hawing, which, considering the qUarter whence
it comes, is full of meaning :
Resolved, That a change of the present ad
valoreM for a specific duty on iron, one of the
great staples orPeinsylvania, would be vastly
beneficial td oUr State at large, and that our Re
presentatives in Congress are earnestly desired
to use all-legitimate Means to . effect that change
in our revenue lows.
FRIGHTPM. DEATH.—:Letters haVe been re
ceived at Pittsburg, announcing the death of
John' fitecaskeY, of that city. HE u'as left with
five coinpanions on a desolate Islanfi in the Pa
cific. Ocean, where they all stetved to'dcath.
Congress.
As usual We have nothing of interest from
Washington during the past week, if we except
Mr. Clay's great speech on his compromise re
solutions. This speech , is worthy of its great
author, and this is all the commendation it needs.
We regret that its great length precludes its
appearance in our columns.
The subject of providing a territorial govern
mont for New Mexico, the admission of Cali
fornia, and other matters kindred thereto were
before the Mime a few days ago, without ex
citing, it would seem, much debate. Mr. Root's
resolution instructing the hummittee on terri ,
tories to report a bill establishing a free &lan
ment in New Mexico, was lost by a Vdte of 105
to 79, and subseqilently, Mr. Caleb of Ala., in
troduced a resolution providing for a joint com
mittee bl the two Houses, to devise some plan
for a settlement of the difficulties 'between the
north and south.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Express under
date of Feb. 2, says that the following program
me has been agreed upon by some of the South ,
ern members.
It is now the general opinion among members
bf all patties, that the programme of Messrs.
Clingman & Cd., is rully agreed Upon by most
of the Southerners, in both Hodses. They meet
de Monday next, with a mutual understanding
and agreement that all supplies are to be resolu
tely refused until some definite action is had on
the Slavery questidn,
Nothing cha p it is agreed, will be done, next
week, but to make speeches upon the subject.
Nu, motion will be had upon the Revenue Bil 4
and no action upon any thing else. So at least
Is the irdpreasion and the out-giving, to-day.
The Territorial Committee in the Senate, it
is understood, are preparing a Compromise
which will be offered next week,—but it will
be fought for and against, with the same deter.
mination that has so far marked the coUrse of
the extromeß, on the Slave qUestihh,
Col. Webb, it is nsw pre* certain, will not
be eonfirnied. Ilia case will be acted upon on
Monday. . .
In the Senate, there will be fiat:Meg done all
next week, save a discussion of the SlaVery qtles
tion.
The House, it is hinted, will meet on Mon
day, and endeavor to force an adjournment, in
respect tor the memory of a former member
whose obsequies took place nine montila ago.
Small Notes.
The Virginia House of Delegates, cOlnposed
of a majority of Locofocos, has rejected the re
port of the committee on Banks, against the
jostle of small notes by the banks of that State,
Find it is thought the House will now pass a
bill authorizing the Banks to issue them,
The Lancaster Union truly remarks that
Ohio, New York, Ne* Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland—in short every State which borders
on Pennsylvania, except Virginia—ribw au
thorizes the issue of small notes. It re
quires only the passage of a similar law in Vir
ginia to complete the circle. A very large por
tion of these notes find their way into Pennsyl
vania. Indeed we think we are safe in assum
ing that at least one fourth of our circulation is
suppled by the small bills of other States. This
is particularly the case in the northern and
western counties. Of course the banks and
people of other states are benefitted to the ex
rent of the profits derived from the circulation
of so large a portion of their paper here. Our
laws, it is true, prohibit the circulation of this
currency among us, but they are daily violated
by nine-tenths of the people, including the very
officers whose duty it is to see them enforced.
Experience having demonstrated that it is utter
ly impossible, by legislative enactment, to pre
vent the circulation of small notes amongst us,
it would be the part of wisdom in our rulers to
allow our own institutions the privilege of
supplying the currency which is now derived
altogether from ftoreign corporations. The is
sue might be based upon a deposit of State
stocks, as recommended by the Governor in his
annua , message, or upon any other basis Of, se
curity that the Legislature might see fit to' adopt.
It might also be made a sdurce rif reVentie to
the State, for we presume that all our banks
would be willing to pay Inc the privilege of
issuing notes under the denomination of fice dol
lars.
A Union Party.
The Phila. Ledger says, some one suggests that
a Union party, in opposition to the Disunionists,
be formed in this country. This would be use
less,
as such a party exists, composed of ninety
nine hundredths of the people of the country.—
Disunion, though it may be talked about at
Washington by a few noisy orators, has never
seriously entered into the minds, as a remedy
now for any governmental evil, of half a dozen
sane persons in the Union. There are other
and constitutional remedies to be tried before
disunion is thought of, and believing in the good
sense and love of justice of the American people,
we have no doubt that the constitutional means
will' bb found sufficient to settle any controver
sy, hcWevet difficult. Disunion can only be the
last desperate moil of faction, which can ac
compliskthe object by no fair and legal means,
such as the constitution provides.-
Tan Monstirr or DIM/MON.-Wm.Oyed
Garrison sent a left'er tb the abolition cOmien
tion in New York' lithe Week,' iii whiCh he oiled
that . 4 the time has come to preach disunion, oh
the highest Moral and religious grounds. The
constitution of the United States is a "covenant'
with death and an agreement with hell."
In the name of God, of Christ, of humanity, of
liberty it must be denounced and repudiated by
all who severe God, love Christ, regard human
ity, and cherish liberty. It remains to be seen
how the people of the North will meet this is
sue."
The'People of the north, says the Philadel
phia Ledger, will meet it, as they always have
dohe, setting down such sentiments as the re ,
Vino of political mbhchnuniacs.
NOBLe Kentuetiy.. , Mell may her sons be
proud of her. In he Legidature on the 15th
ult., the following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Governor is hereby re•
quested to cause a suitable lifoCk of native mar
ble to be conveyed to Washington city, to take
its proper place in the monument to the memo
ry of the Father of his Country, and that the
following words be engraVed thereon:—
"Under the auspices of Heaven and the pre
cepts of Washiugton, Kentucky will be the last
to give up theTnion."
Important from California.
Nile Oxus/ss, Feb. 3—A. M.
By an arrival here we have received dates
from San Francisco up to the 31st of December.
The Assembly met on the 17th. Gov. Bur
t:lett was inaugurated.
Col. Fremont and Col. Gwyne, of Mississip•
pi, were elected United States Senators by the
Assembly, on the 21st.
The mining operations are almost entirely
suspended, in consequence of the heavy snows
and rains, and great numbers of the millers are
daily coming into San Francisco.
A tremendous conflagration took place at
Son Francisco on the 2.lth of December. A
large portion of the city, neatly one half Was
destroyed. The loss is estimated at from one
million firs handfed thousand to two millions
dollars.
The Steamship Cherokee arrived at Chdgres
on the 26th.
The Empire City sailed for New York on the
27th.
The Steamers Chesapeake and Panama are
rived (hum New York.
The Constitution of California has been adopt
ed-12,000 in favor and 8,00 against.
Three millions in gold dust was brought by
this arrival.
Disunion and its Advocates,
The New York Tribune concludes a leading
article upon the schemes of the disunionists with
the following declaration :
We are now to see what the North is made
of.;.II its Representatives can be driven, as they
were last winter, to reconsider Mr. Gott's res ,
elution, they will be. But this is not what the
disunionists desire. They mean to bread• the
Tinton, and any skulking on the part of the Free
States will only secure contempt withoutre
gaining affection. If necessary they are pre
pared to vacate half a dozen eeate in the Sen
ate, by concert, in order to secure the passage
of the Wilmot Proviso. It is not redress they
seek, but dissolution and Slave-holding Empire,
stretching from the Susquehanna to the Rio
Grande, with Cuba, Hayti and the balance of
Mexico to be overrun and "tinneked" as soon as
possible. Let us calittly and fearlessly await
it'd developintrits Which 1850 has in store for
US.
Toe FLORIDA INDIANS.—We are informed by
the National Intelligenrer, that news has been
received at the War Department from Florida.
stating that on the 21st January the Command
ing Genetsl in that State met in council the
Chief and six sub-Chiefs of the Seminole and
Micasuke Indians, and a delegate from the Tal
lahassees, which terminated very satisfactorily.
The President's approval of their conduct in
surrendering the murderers, and his desire for
their removal west of the Mississippi, was coin
municated to them, and they finally expressed
their willingness to emigrate, and their deter=
mination to use all efforts to persuade theiliteo='
ple to accompany them. The Western title:
gates have also been permitted to enter ttig .
tln
tion, in the prosecution of their Mission. Devi.-
legs, with his sub-Chiefs, has promised eci Meet
the agent, Capt. CASEY, about the middle of the
present month at Caloosahardie, and inform
him of the result of their Atli. It is believ
ed that many of the Indian's are disposed to go
to the West, while other's' are undecided; but,
upon the whole, the prospects of their emigra
tion are more fatteratre thjti they have been for
some time past.
Now COUNTXreviri.-A counterfeit relief
note, of the denoMination of two dollars, pur
porting to be of the re-issue of the Farmers'
Bank of Lancaster, has been detected at Lair- -
easter. The vignette and medallions afe rather
coarsely done, but the countcrfeit is a danger
ous one, well calculated to
The New York Evening Post says: "In his
plans for putting down any treasonable pro
ceedings on the part of the fanatics of the South,
Gen. Taylor is understood to declare that Inc
toil not ask the did of a single man from the
States lying north of Mason and Dizson's
RETALIATibN.-The Albany Evening Jour
nal recommends that in case any of the Southern
States should pass resolutions refusing to use
Northern products, we.of the North can retali
ate by ceasing to claw tobaceo.
Timsssaivi NO IN CsracoaxiA,--The 27th of
November was celebrated in California, as a
day of Thanksgiving. The San Francisco cor
respondent of the N. 0. Picgrene says the day
was observed much more universally than was
expected; very little business was done, labor
of all kinds suspended, the churches opened,
and, in short, the day observed as it is "in the
land of the free and the home of the brave," not
excepting the pleasures of the social circles, the
turkeys, mince and pumpkin pies and other good
cheer incidental to the occasion. In the even
ing the circus. A scientific concert by M'me
Batters nod two or three European bands, lent
them aid to amuse the town.
SOMETHING Now.—For the first time in this
country, says the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman,
of the 25th ult., one hundred head of tat cattle
belonging to Mr. Seymour Renick, have been
shod with iron shoes, for the purpose of travel
ling over the mountains. If the experiment
proves good, it is the intention of Mr. Renick
to shoe eleven hundred more.
The Lorofoco papers are copying with great
delight the comments of the English papers up
on Mr. Meredith's report. The principle which
the Secretary of the Tretiatiry avows does not at
all suit the English market.
CIIOI.gRA ON TOR kIVER.-The Louisville
Courier says the St: Louis steamer Alex. Scott,
passed up the river on the 24th, having on board
several hundred German emigrants, among
whom thd cholera broke out tvio days previous,
of which some eight or ten had died, many mote
were down with it,
0:7-At Gettysburg, on IVednesday
last, a verdict was obtained by Henriet
ta Melhorn against Frederick Moritz of
$4OO and costs for breach of promise of
marriage.
[l7- The St. Louis Dispatch states
that there was 21 deaths of cholera at
St. Louis during the week ending the
13th ult.
Letter from the State Treasurer.
The followiug letter has been sent to the Sen
ate by Mr. Ball, state treasurer, in reply to a
resolution of that body, adopted on the receipt
of a complaint from the canal board, that the
bill clue the Messrs. Norris for locomStives, had
not been paid on itresetitation. It id a complete
refutation of all the charges brought by the op
position, and exhibits, in a measure, the tin.
scrupulous manner in which the affairs of the
canal board are conducted, and the !beans they
have ih some instances adopted to embarrass the
state treasurer in the discharge of his duty:—
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Harrisburg, February 5, 1850.
Nenators— The resolution of your hon-
orable body, of the 26th ultimo, is before
me. My absence in Philadelphia, on
public duty, has prevented all earlier re-
PIY.
As regards the allegation of the canal
commissioners, end the complaints of
Messrs. Norris Brothers, inquired of by
your resolution, 1 have to reply as fol
low
Messrs. Norris Brothers never person. ,
ally presented at the treasury for pay
ment, nor did any person for them, an
order from the canal commissioners for
the amount they claim, nor haste I' yet
official notice that the state oWe them:
In default of such notice, duty required
that I should refrain from' paying away
the public money.
Had those gentlemen presented such
an order, I would have been jbatifiee in
withholding payment, the eVidence be
ing that Norris Brothers charged seven
hundred dollars more for each locomo
tive furnished the state, than they charg•
ed the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Or, in other words, !het furbished that
company with a more expensive article
for seven hundred dollars:less, and re
ceived fifteen hundred dollars df the con
sideration in trade. So bulge a profit
would seem to justify a' liberal Credit.
The engines referred to were pur
chased, it seems, under the authority
given in the 16th section of the last ap
propriation bill: thislieing true it scarce
ly justifies the sald^bY the canal commis
sioners of five locomotives, worth at
;east $25090, tar the paltry sum of $3,3-
90,thereby nerificiug upwards of twenty
one thousand dollars, which evinces
gross igtimAce of the value of property,
or a drithinal neglect of duty. Perhaps
these faels *ould hot have justified me
in hesitating to pay Norris Brothers had
I beet' drawn on for the money.
I never refused to settle the accounts
of the superintendent of motive power
on the Columbia road.
The rule of the office is to take up in
its order every item of business, and
with ►his regulation 1 require a strict
compliance.
I am not aware of having purposely
refused at any time "money appropriat
ed to the management and repairs of
any of the other lines of the public
works."
Since I have been responsible for the
management of the state finances, t have
not received from the canal Commission
ers, at any time, a moment's notice of
their intention to draw on the treasury
other t'ha'n Was furnished by the actual
presentation of their drafts.
• While it is both my duty and my
pleasure to provide the ways and means
to answer every call, nevertheless the
interest and credit of the state, as every
business man will understand, cannot
be sustained if other branches of the
government refuse to harmonise with
this department. To such a degree
have the canal board carried their an
tagonism, that upon the appointment of
officers whose duties brine: them in con
tact with the treasury, they have not
furnished notice of the change. In the
payment o( money Cate is required; for
that purpose the name§ of officers must
be known, their persona and th-er signa
tures identified, us also . a kndwledgethat
they have given the required bond be
fore money can bendvanced them.
The first notice I have received of the
change of officers was the presentation,
by the new incumbent, of drafts for large
sums of money.
Senators are aware that the treasury
has a vast number of payments to pro.
vide for besides the ranch appropriations;'
it seems proper, therefore, in a business
view, that the treasurer, whoever he
may be, should have the co-operation of
the co-ordinate brances of the govern
ment, rather than to have so powerful an
arm as the canal board exercising their
authority to draw money without refer
ence to the general interests or credit of
the state.
G. J. BALL, State Treasurer.
THE Monmoxs.—These remarkable people
have been long subject to imputations against
their morality. These imputations have also
been denied. "We have been most possitively
assured," says the Washington Globe, "by one
of the Mormon delegates, that the charge of
polygamy and of bigamy, brought against the
citizens of Deseret, is utterly unfounded, and
that it is a cruel calumny:"
The question, concerning the admission of
Deseret into the Union as a State, may come up
in'Congress this winter , —if it should so happen
that Congress gets into a mood to attend to the
public business. The constitution of Deseret
has no provision on the subject of Slavery.
A BEAR Lebanon Courier says
that a' bear, weighing 245 pounds, was shot near
Mr. Weiklinan's forge, in that county, on Mon
day last, by a colored man who was out on a
gunning expedition. Sportsmen say that game
of this kind has been more plenty in the Blue
Mountains during the present winter, than for
many years previous.
Conditions and Prospects of Mexico.
President HenannA opened the extraordinary
session of Congress in the city of Mexico, on
the Ist of January. He stated that, with the
exception tif One part, Yucatan, intestine strife
had entirely ceased in Mexico. British media
tion had tried to restore peace to the peninsula,
but ineffectually. Measures had now been ta•
ken which would probably be successful. Ile
declared, however, that under no eirenweean..
des would any portion of Ma sovereignty of
Yueatan be alienated. He spoke energetically
df the necessity of Mexico's recovering her cred•
it,' by waking n satisfactory, arrangement with
the home and foreign bond-holders, and recom
mended power to be granted to the administra
tion to that i end. He affirms that the revenue
is not in sO'bitil a state as it has been described.
The amount of duties received at the Matitime
custom house, between Mil June;lBl9, and
30th June, 18 , 10; is $6,000,000, attic the total
amount of revenue for that peribil is $9,900,000,
Industry is =preying, and the mineral wealth'
51 the country, tinder the xgis of peace, has beetl e
steady in its development.
Perot “Sr.Avic!"—The LouisVille_
Courier of a late day describes a scene, Which
says it little believed could be enacted within'
the borders of Kentucky. The Steamer 0, W.
Kendall was lying at the wharf preparing to
start to New Orleans. On the forecastle deck
stood a group Consisting of a master and fire or
elaves,ineluding a woman With a child at
the breast, who were apparently going to the
South. Just as the last bell Of the steamer rang;
and the lines were about to be cast loose, the
mother was bade to gibe Up her infant, and was
told that she must go without it. At this intr=
mation the poor creature became frantic with
grief. She caressed the child a moment, then
flew to her trunk in which hail been packed vari
ous little articles of Clothing that she had mado
up for it to wear. These she first pressed fer
vently to her lips and then bestowed then, upon
the child. Her owner then ordered her to follow
him, and she mechanically started to obey, but
the promptings of nature Were too strong within!
her swelling breast to be resisted, and with loud
sobs of grief, she turned, embraced her child
and clung to it with the tenacity St despair.
The heart-rending grief of the wornani and her
frantic gestures, attracted the attention Of
,per
sons along the levee, and strongly excited the:
sympathies of many. The owner was asked
by a gentleman if he would sell the woman and
child. To this he assented, and demanded $651)
for them. L, pon inquiry, however, it was as
certained that the woman was to be sold down
the river, and that the child would be disposed
lof here. The bystanders volunteered to raise
subscription to buy the child, and send it with
its mother, and several of them proffered $lO
apiece. At this juncture, Capt. Noicrox, the
captain of the boat, came forward and told the
owner of the slaves that he would not take him*
on his boat, and sent the whole party ashore,
and in a few moments the steamer was seen
slashing over the falls without them. Was the
erne! and unnatural separation filially effected/
Engiitth Opinions.
The message of President Taylor has been
published in England, and has given rise to
much comment and speculation. Upon the
Tariff recommendation of the President, the
editor of the Liverpool Sfail remarks:
"If General Taylor shall succeed in carrying
out his vitwo, he wil be the greatest man that
America has yet produced, and the munificent
benefactor of his country. The Americans have
coal, iron, timber, and can raise sufficient cot
' ton for the world. They have exhaustless sup
plies of corn and provisions, cheap and fertile
lands, and they have no takes Worth mentioning.
Why, then, should they not manufacture for
themselves) Why should cotton be brought four
thousand miles to England, to be spun and
woven in Lancashire, and be carried some three
or four thousand miles more to the United
States to be consumed) We cannot see any rea
son for it. It is true that England has had the
start in martilfactures, but what right has she to'
expect to be always first in the race? The A
mericans are not only justified in protecting
their own interests, but, as the President says,
"it is the right and duty of Congress to encour
age domestic industry, which is the greatest
source of national as well as individual wealth
and. prosperity." Sounder policy was never
broached—truer words were never uttered.
DIS 1,1 lON IN MARYLANII.--Tile Bahinlard
Clipper holds the following language on disun
ion as fttrolling the State of Maryland:
We believe that a mistake has been commit
ted by pledging the state, in certain events, to
send
.delegates to the southern convention..
There was no occitaioti foi'committhl on the sub
ject, especially as the councils which might
prtVail in the southern cdnventidtt might bit
such as would not be approved by Maryland.
We set it down as a 'fixed fact,' that this state
will not, tinder any circumstances which are
likely to occur, sanction a dkssolution of the un
ion. Whatever may be the feeling among mem
bers of the legislature, We are satisfied that w
large majority of the, people of the state arc op
posed to pledging Maryland to unite with the
south, of nny other section, in other than con
stitutional measures.• The Old Maryland line
will stand steadfast to the union, first, last, and
always; and the. legislature would do . well to
keep this fact always in mind."
WonicmitN THEIR owa EMiIIOYER3.-The pud
tilers and boilers in the iron works at Pittsburg
intend to have a mill of then. own, in which the
profits will gale themselves. An attempt to
cut down their wages by employers has driven
them to this project.- , -"Whether it' will be suc
cessful or not time will show. In Cincinnati
•it'ha! proved no, and this fact gives glint hopes
to the'Pittsbur g workmen.
0:7" ANOTHER AWFUL EXPLOSION.-Tho stea
mer St. Joseph, hence for St. LOWS, burst her
boilers on Wednesday morning last, when at
Choctaw Island, killing, it is supposed, abouf
twenty persons. Mier the explosion the
St. Joseph took fire and burnt to . the waters
edge. The steamer George Washington reit ,
coed the surviving passengers and crew.--N. 0.
Picayune, Jan. 27.
ROMhNTIt REVENGE.—In Kentucky,*
ploughman became enamored of a milk
maid on a neighboring farm. His ad
dresses were rejected ; and the disap
pointed swain; full of melancholy and
revenge, procured a rope, went to the
farrri, and—tied all the cots tails togeth.
er !
ALABAMA.-In the Senate'df this State, on the
28th ult., resolutions were adopted unanimous
ly, directing the return of the resolutions of the
Connecticut Legislathre on slavery to the Gov
ernor of that State, with a respectful declaratiou
that they were insulting to Alabama.