Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, January 30, 1851, Image 2
THE JOURNAL MUM i 41,0422 1 IUPPORTED DT Timm, tar HUNTINGDON, PA, Thursday Morning, Jan. 30, 1851. TERMS OF PUBLICATION : Olt "lIVNTINGDOIf JOURNAL" is published at •s following rates, Tin: If paid in advance, per annum, 111,15 If paid during the year, 2,00 If paid after the expiration of the year, • • 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in advance, • • • 1,50 Tisit above Terms will he adhered to in all cases. No subscription will he taken for a less period than six months, and no paper will he discontinued un- Al all arrearages ars paid, unless at the option of re publisher. V. B. [PALMER Is oar authorized agent in Philadelphia, New Tork and Baltimore, to receive advertisements. aad any persons in those cities wishing to adver ts, in our columns,; will please call on him. A Change. Gr Hereafter the " Journal" will be published T'llursday morning in place of Tuesday as here tofore. We make this change for the benefit of •nr readers. The present arrangement of the nails win enable us, by this change, to give later new., as we almost invariably receive the imp°, tact news in the early part of the week. The Trough Creek packages will be mailed on Wed nesday evening, and will convey to our numerous tribscribers in that region the very latest intelli gime. fir We have been prevented by indivposition, from giving our paper much attention this week. Tea ViZATIIER.—We have had a week most extraordinary mild weather.7lt was much more like April than January.".:We do not recol lect experiencing so much warm weather at one time in mid winter since January 1843, when we think there was a weePor ten days very similar so what we have just passed through. It has left no however, and we now have, at the present writing (Tuesday, Jan. 28,) cloudy, damp weath er. Well, well, we can't expect all ounshinc in We world. General Ticket Law. Petitions hone been presented by our represen tatives in favor of the extension of the law allow ing the citizens to vote for all officers on a single ticked, to the county of Huntingdon. We hope the law may he extended, as it would save voters a great deal of trouble. J. T. SCOTT hat been appointed an non. See teary of the American'ArflUnion,:New York. At his store may be teen a fine lot of Engra , tags, Etchings, Bulletins, &c., Just received from the Art Union, which he will take pleasure in ex hibiting to persons wishing to become members. Every subscriberlof five dollars is a member for the year. and entitled to all its privileges. Early payment of fees of membership is desirable, as the engravings, bulletins, re ~ &c., are issued to this members inithe order galsubscript ion. DOE'T TRIFLE WITH THE LADIES.—WC learn Prom the Lewistown Gazette, that a lady from Union county, at the late term of Court in Mifflin taunt', obtained a.verdict against a Mr. Martin of $i,72.5 damages, fora breach of promice. 'rhe lady's nem is not given. Some gentlemen would be less liabie to disappoint her now, if Martin pays up. Fire in Lewistown. A Are broke out in Lewistown, at 7 o'clock on Friday evening last, in the house of Wm. Giffin, kept as a tavern, and owned by D. Fichthorn.— It took Are from the drum of the sto , e, in an up per story, The loss is supposed to be about twelve or fifteen hundred dollars. Fire in Hollidaysburg. The "Reyister" of last week, says :—" At about 2 o'clock on Friday morning last, our citi •ens were again aroused by the cry of fire, occa sioned by the burning of a stable belonging to Mr. G. L. Lloyd, in the rear of the store of Messrs. Lloyd & Hemphill. It was a brick build ing, and fortunately did not contain much com buotiblo material. The fire, however, could not be arrested until it had destroyed all hut the brick walls, consuming with the rest, an excellent milch cow, the property of Mr. Lloyd. It was fired by VI incendiary. Attempt to Break Jail. We learn from the Hollidaysburg Register, that Dairy, who is in prison charged with the murder of Gorsuch, and Hutchison, under sentence of death for the murder of Edmunson, made an un successful attempt to break jail last week. The appartment they occupied was lined with sheet-iron fastened to the ceiling and sides with nails driven through it into the planks. When discovered they had drawn nearly all the nails in one of the sheets, and then returned thesis to their places so as to leave no traces of their work. This they succee- , cle.d in doing by means of a nail they had somehow etcured, the one end of which they had sharpened el at to enable them to insert it under the heads of the nails on the sheeting and so prize them out. But unfortunately for them, they broke the head off one of the nails, which the vigilant eye of the Sheriff observed, and upon examination their whole work was discovered. Wino STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEL.—A no tice from the Hon. Henry M. Fuller, chairman, requests a meeting of the Whig State Central Committee, at Coverly's Hotel, in Harrisburg, on Tuesday evening , the 4th of February, for the purpose of fixing the time and place of holding the State Convention to nominate candidates fur GorenGr, Judges, &e. air Tuts prom . nont candidate for the honor of representing New Jersey in the United State• Se nses, ere JON, A. Twosere,x, FAN., and Goyim awe V*444,-.. Correspondence of the .Uunti,gdort J , urnal. Letter from Harrisburg. HARRISBURO, Jan. ii, 1851 DZAR my letter of Out week I arl leeted to say that Gen. Packer had reported a Bill, districting the State for the election of Judges. I do not send you a copy of the Bill now, as I deem it more important to lay it before your read ers ; when it shall under consideration, I will send it ; then your readers will be able to follow it through its arnendations, if it receives any. The Agricultural Convention excites much in terest; awl flinch WAS said and done to show that the recommendation of Governor Johnston, " to create an Agricultural Department connected with the State Government," is of vital importance to the farming interests. Gov. Johnston has shown by every act of his administration that he takes a wise and statesmanlike view of the real wants of our citizens. It certainly must he gratifying to !lira to see the honest and patriotic of all parties, thus giving their aid to secure to our tax-paying farmers, some direct benefit from legislation, as recommended by him. Tariff Resolutions have again been offered in the legislature. You will see, I doubt not, an ef fort on the part of the progeny of the "J. K. Kane letter," to keep up their Use position in re gard to protection. The election of Brodhead es U. S. Senator, fore-shadows such a result—the promise is to the ear,—to the heart all is trickery and falsehood. Will the people be longer cheat ed? We shall see. On Thursday, Mr. Mulilenberg read in his place, in the Senate, the following resoli.tion: Resolved, That the late settlement of the ques tions at issue between the Northern and Southern members of this confederacy, meets with the ap proval of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and that it reflects the highest honor upon the true pa triots who originated and supported those meas ures of comp umi , e, which have prevented an at tempt to dissolve the Union. Rewired, That the aforesaid measures, corn monly known as the compromise act, should be looked upon as a solemn contract between the Northern and Southern states, upon the proper performance of which the fate of the Union is de pendant, and that no attempt to interfere with any portion of the said contract should be entertain ed for a moment. Here, then, you will see, that several Bills, which were passed at the last session )f Congress, known as the several fragments of the Compro mise Bill, are treated as if they were all hut one Bill—an entire contract—notwithstanding the fact that they could not pass, as a whole, but were in reality killed, because they were treated as de pendent measures, and were finally passed as in dependent measures. Yet these resolutions assume that the measures are one act, and one contract, between the Northern and Southern States. Wo should like to know if the free men of your county recognize such!a contract, and nre willing to have their mouths sealed, and their ballot-boxes destroyed, so far as an expression of their opinions on this subject is concerned. llarrisburg has again bean enlivened by the workings of the Fugitive Slave Law. On Friday of last week ~Commissioner M'Callister had the privilege of securing another Ten Dollar fee. as the bounty for a poor negro's scalp. There is not touch game of that kind to be caught here, yet the hunters succeed occasionally in trapping one. In this last case, the durky and the ten dollcto were both secured without any " noise or confusion." Talking of negroes—that puts me in mind of another thing. On the Satan day, Mr. Guernsey, in the Senate, from the Judiciary Committee, re ported a Bill, repealing utrtain sections of the Kidnapping Law of 1847, aid' a recommendation that it be negatived. An effort will be made to repeal that law—which was passed by the De mocre, and received the signature of the pith stir ; and the would be democrats of the day,!will he very zealous for its repeal. For my part, I cannot see why, and I must wait until the topic is argued, then I can write understandingly. Is it not a little strange that those very persons who are complair.:ng the loudest about agitation, are keeping it up A short session is anticipated by sonic; there is but little to do. The Judicial District Bill is the only one of much importance, after the Free nking Law is disposed of; and I presume that soon be, as the cunning locotocos are, many of them, going for it. They see that it is a meas ure that will suit the interests of the people, and they are anxious to steal some of our Whig thun der. Last year it was killed by their opposition; now they wish to be considered its friends. On yesterday Mr. Muldenberg, of the Senate, made a report from the select committee, upon the subject of the preservation of the interesting and valuable nomuscripts connected with the ear ly history of our State. The report is able, and reflects great credit upon its author, and the com mittee. It is accompanied by a Bill making pro •ision for carrying out the recommendation of the Governor on this subject. I am willing, after this, to forget the folly of the Senator last session, in reviling that good man, Penn. The lueofocos are in tribulation, by reason of Gov. Johnston's successful eftbrts to reduce the State debt, and they are resorting to their old vocation, to deceive. You will find in the tat!, American of rt:e h.‘,l, an excellent Article upon' the subject. It should be published in every honest paper in the State. You and your readers must excuse the desulto ry character of may letters. They are but odds and ends, hastily gathered up, and strung together without much order or connection. Yours, United States Senators. The Legislature of Missouri, succeeded on Wednesday last, on the fortieth ballot, in electing Mr. Dorm the Whig candidate, U. S. Senator for six years from the fourth of March next. The vote stood—Geyer (Whig) 80, Benton (Loco) 55, Strong-fellow (anti-Benton) 18 centering 6. This is an important gain for the Whigs. JAMES A. BATARD, (Loco) was elected U. S. Senator by the Legislature of Delmore, by a ma jority of two, on the seventh ballot. The Locus have eight on joint ballot. The Massachusetts Legislature have hal seven unsuccessful ballotings for U. S. Senator up to Thursday noon. The candidates aro Sumner (Free Soil) and Winthrop, (Whig.) the election hoe I.cem rasttpoo cif for two wok!. Ilt , tlttl to Gen. Scott, by the Legis lature of Virginia. The legislature of Virginia, at its last session, voted gold medal to Gen. Wiwnixim SCOTT, for his services during the late Mexican war. The medal has just been completed, and the Governor of Virginia has appointed a committee from the members of the present Legislature to make the presentation. This beautiful memento of Virginia's munificent gratitude to ber favorite son, which is represented as being one of the most exquisite specimens of American art ever manu factured, is thus described : The medal is 3} inches in diameter, five-six teenths of an inch thick, and is of course very mas sive and rich. On one side is an admirable life like bust of the General, with the words "Winfield Scutt" in capitals above. The bust stands upon an oblong pedestal—flanked by two noble eagles, sprigs of laurel, and oak touching their wings—a number of flags, (two rnexican banners among them,) guns, pikes, mortars and field-pieces for ming an appropriate back ground. On the pedes tal is the following inscription : "The common wealth of Virginia presents this medal to Major General Winfield Scott, as a memorial of her ad miration for the great and distinguished services of her sun, whilst commander in chief of the Ameri can Armies in the war with Mexico, 1647." On the reverse side in the centre stands a beautiful fluted column, with “11312" on the base and “1848" on the capital. A spread, holding an olive branch in its mouth, is on its top—and the column is en twined with leaves of laurel, inscribed with the words "Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Del Ray, Chapultepce, Mexico."— Above the column are the words "Fecit Quad Cogitavit ;" below "From 1 , irginia," and an es cutcheon with the coat of arms of the State. In the back ground are the principal buildings in or near the city of Mexico, the Castle of San Juan (as we take it,) with the peculiar and strikingly peaked mountains, batteries at work, Rte.—the whole encircled by a very rich wreath of laurel and oak intertwined. The medal is one of great beauty and magnificence, and do, great credit to the exquisite skill and taste or Mr. C. C. Wright an old soldier under Gen. 53011, sod now of New York. From California. NEW YORK, Jan. 2I.—A. M. The steamers Cherokee and Prometheus arri ved here this morning with dates from San Fran cisco to the 16th inst., being two weeks later— Sacramento City to the loth Dec., and Kingston to the 13th inst. The Cherokee brings one and a quarter million of gold, and the Prometheus abou• half a million. Nearly all the New York passen gers on the Isthmus are in the Cherokee. The Prometheus has 240 passengers. Tile San Francisco [herald thinks that the chan ces of Colonel Fremont for the Senatorship to the United States are very doubtful and quite desper ate. The friends of Mr. Weller are very sanguine of success. The matter, however, is in much doubt. Snow had fallen to the depth of several inches at Nevada prior to the 15th December. A party, consisting of forty seven Americans, lad been attacked by the Indians beyond Mariposa Hill, and all of them killed. 'Die Stockton Journal records a collision in the vicinity of Mokneltimc, between sixteen Ameri cans and a party of Indians. Quito a fierce ski, miso took place and a largo number of Indian. weere killed. The Military, under the command of Col. I . Z.,s;ers at Plneerville, has been disbanded. Goad continues to be found in The health of San Francisco and other cities has greatly improved. The cholera has nearly disappeared. The notorious Capt. P. 11. French, arrived at San Francisco from Greganas. Another tire had occurred in San Francisco which destroyed about $lOO,OOO worth of prop erty. The markets at San Francisco and else-where were over stocked. Western flour $l5, Mesa Beef $l5. Pork do. $2O. Prime do. $l6. Oth er articles of produce generally were dull, and a downward tendency. General news unimportant. Singular Discovery of Stolen Jew- elry at Pottsville. We learn from the Miner's Journal, at Pottsville that on Thursday of last -seek, while some chil dren were at play upon the hillside, near Fishhook half a mile from Pottsville, one of the 'mintier dis covered a small string fastened to a bush ; his cu riosity being awakened, the string was seized, and Mier pulling at it, he found that it became detach ed from some object beneath the snow. Upon an examination of the string, several gold rings were found upon it, and a slight search enabled them to discover an old stocking or drawer-leg, with SPV ernd hundred dollars worth of unfinished gold rings, pencils, chains, &c. In the vicinity another string WAS found, fastened in the same manlier, but len ding off in a different direction, to the end of which there was also a large amount of jewelry, also un finished. The Pottsville Journal thinks these ar ticles came front some large manufacturing house in Philadelphia or New York, and the spoil hidden beneath the snow by the party committing the theft, and the spot designated by the small strings so as to enable them to regain their spoils at a fu ture day. Perhaps the robbery of Mr. Bard's store in Arch street, Phila. on Friday night, Jan. 10, may have something to do with this di,overy. SMIKE. Counterfeiters Arrested. Five women were arrestc,i in New York last week charged with passing counterfeit bills on the Miner's Bank of Pottsville, Pa. They said they belonged to Philadelphia, and they had about $5OO in good money about them, which had evi dently been taken in exchange for counterfeits.— Twu men were arrested at the same time, charged with being connected with the gang. Hon. HENRY DODGE 11 , 1115:011 Tuesday last re elected United States Senator from Wisconsin for six years, from the 4th March next. fir Nei,ndez, chief of 1,500 rebels in Ortjac, , Mexico, had captured several villages and put the municipal fathers to death. The rebels had not been put dews, as per last accounts. Members of Congress Dictating to the People. Let every man attend to his proper business and members of Congress attend to their paid for du ties of making laws for the nation, and abstain from making Presidents. We learn from the Washington journals of yesterday, that the follow paper is in circulation there for signatures among the members: " The undersigned, members of the Thirty-first Congress of the United States, believing that a re newal of sectional controversy upon the subject of slavery would be both dangerous to the Union and destructive of its objects, and seeing no mode by which such controversy can lie avoided except by a strict adherence to the settlement thereof effected by the Compromise Acts passed at the last session of Congress, no HEREBY DECLARE their intention to maintain the said settlement inviolate, and to resist all attempts to repeal or alter the acts afore said, unless by the general consent of the friends of the measures, and to remedy such evils, if nay as time and experience may develope. And, for the purpose of making this resolution effective, they FURTHER DECLARE that they will not support for the office of President or of Vice President, or of Senator or of Representatives in Congress, or as member of a State Legislature, any man, of whatever party, who is not known to he opposed to the disturbance of the settlement aforesaid, and to the renewal, in any fogs, of agitation upon the subject of slavery." The signing of any such paper, in their official character, by members of Congress, is impertinent to the objects for which they were sent to 'Wash ington. We, the people expect our servants, whom we pay liberally, to attend to our interests, anti await the expression of our opinions upon the repeal or alteration of the Fugitive Slave Law.— Our breath made them, members of Congress, and our breath can unmake them ; they ars but mere weak mortals, who look funny enough when brought into near contact. To say that as "mem bees of Congress" they will not support, for the office of President, Vice-President, Senator, Rep resentative in Congress, or Member of Legislature any man who is not known to be opposed to the disturbance of the Fugitive Slave Law, is a piece of arrogant assumption, which has not been wit nessed in our country, since Ring Cattsus, in the person of WILLux H. CRAWFORD, was dethron ed. We will have nothing which looks like a re vival of the iron political rule that Congress, until the year 1824, exercised over the politics of our country. We will not have public opi n i on no d popular action forestalled by members of Con gress. There are barely two hundred and eighty odd of them all told, and they issue their bull of excommunication with as much gravity as if Pope Pius had fulminated it front the Vatican. What are their votes to effect—they are but a drop in the vast ocean of public opinions—a grain of sand in the millions of acres which comprise our great confederacy. ! And yet they "declare" and "fur ther declare" that they will tie up their action and permit 110 expostulations from the people to affect their future legislation. This is the supreme of folly ! Congress has surly assumed the cap and bauble There are but about five poor weeks of the'pre sent SCSSiOR left, in which to do work requiring as many mouths of calm deliberation. We find the precious time fritted away—rasrtirans m,nor,•- uvriug to out general each other—one party afraid and the other not daring to suggest any specific action fur brood, national reform—bills sleeping in committees in the soporific company of their dull members, and all the requirements of the country. at large neglected by unfaithful stewards; we find these things and are shocked and insulted by such exhibitions of partizan scheming as the one to which we have referred. Attend to your business, Messieurs Congressmen, and the people will attend to theirs ! We want none of your interference and !tone of your dictation, as to the course we shail take in electing our Representatives. An individ uals, you may act as you now officially ndeclare," but we tell you there will be a strict accountability demanded of your public acts. When the proper time arrives, the people will nominate such repre sentatives for themselves in the National or State councils, as they see proper, and if you Jeep your advice until it is called for, you may perchance keep your seats in Congress longer. We do not wish to be understood, as raising an objection to the principles involved in the Cungres sional circular. We go to the "ultima Thule" in opposing the election of any man to office who in for reviving any agitation looking to a breach of the compromise of the Constitution, or the disrup ting of pacific relations between the integral States of our great unit confederacy. But we look with jealousy upon any attempt of Congress to encroach upon our popular prerogatives, and shall resist all impertinent interference on its part, with the pri mary movements of the people towards the selec tion of candidates for the Presidency and other of ficers. The evils which once resulted from these oligarchical cabals, are still remembered in bitter ness; they were purged away by the elevation of ANDREW JACKSON to the Chief Magistracy, with out the intervention of a Congressional caucus, and we trust they will never again be permitted to ger minate in our country. And, therefore, we end as we began. Let Congressmen attend to their own business, and leave the prerogatives of the People to be enjoyed, unmolested, by the People. —Daily Sun. MAMMOTH nocB.—The Reading papers give a list of nine hogs recently killed in that city, weighing in the aggregate 4851 pounds, and av eraging 539 pounds each. These are monster specimens of the Ppreine species not often to be met with, and bard to be heat. New Fusm.—A locomotive engine is tieing built near New York . , which is to be a novelty.— Nothing but alcohol is to be used for heating the boiler. It is constructed upon a principle hereto fore untried, but it is expected to he entirely suc cessful in its operation. It is built for the Eric Railroad, and it will be tested ou that road next week. We hope, with the Tribune, it may sue , ceed, for we have never heard of a more suitable way of using up the fluid designed to be used. Ihe Canal Commissioners have ordered the Canal to be ready for navigation on the 15th February ! The clerk of the weather, who has tome say so in this matter, is yet to bear from, and will probably Tetri any garb proceeding.— Ancreef, Pennsylvania Ageless Usual Con. vention. A Convention of Delegates representing the Farming interests of the various counties of this State, met in the Court House, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday morning, the 21st instant, and was orga nized temporarily by the appointment of Gen. TAstss Invite, of Centre, President, and E. E. Kinser, Secretary. A committee of one from each Congressional district was appointed to nomi nate permanent officers. This committee after conferring, unanimously agreed to tender the of fice of President to Gov. Was. F. JOHNSTON, and the appointment was accordingly tendered to the Governor, who to avoid misrepresentation of any kind, and prevent misconstruction of the purposes of the Convention, felt it his duty to respectfully decline the proposed honor. The committee then nominated Hon. GEO. W. WOODWARD, Presi dent, with a Vice President from each Congres sional district. The Convention then adjourned to meet in the capital at 2 o'clock, P. M. In the afternoon, Judge Ilavka, of Lancaster, from a select committee, reported a Constitution for the organization of a Pennsylvania State Ag ricultural Society, as follows : CONSTITUTION The name of this Society shall he " The Penn sylvania State Agricultural Society." The objects of the Society are to foster and im prove agriculture, horticulture and the domestic household arts. Suc. 1. The Society shall consist of all such persons as shall signify to the Executive Commit tee their wish to become members, and shall pay to the Treasurer, on signing the Constitution of the Society, not less than $l, and an annual con tribution of the same amount; and also of hono rary and corresponding members. The officers of County Agricultural Societies in this State, •r delegations therefrom, shall be members ex-o.tfic;o of this Society. The payment of $2O shall constitute life mem bership, and exempt the members so contributing front all annual payments. Sec. 2. The officers of the Society shall he a President, a Vice President from each Congres sional district, three-fourths of whom shall he practical farmers or horticulturalists ; a Treasur er; a Corresponding Secretary; a Recording Sec retary ; u Lffirarian ; an Agricultural Chemist and Geologist, and such other assistants as the Socie ty may find essential to the transaction of its busi ness ; an Executive Committee, consisting of the above named officers and five additional members. DUTIES 07 OFFICERS. Sac. 3. The President shall have a general superintendence of all the atlisirs of the society; in case of the death, illness or inability of the President to perform the duties of his office, the Executive Committee shall select a Vice Presi dent to act in his stead, who shall have the same power and perform the same duties, as the Presi dent, until the next annual election. Vice PreJidents. It shall be their duty to take charge of the affairs of the Association in their several districts ; to advance all its objects ; to call upon Farmers, to report as to the condition of Agriculture in their neighborhood ; to ask for in formation as to the modes of cultivation adopted by different farmers ; and as far as in their power, to make known the resources of their districts ; the nature of its soil; its geological character, and all such matters as may interest farmers in every part of the State. The Treasurer shall keep an account of all the moneys paid into his hands, and shall only pay bills, when audited and approved by the Execu tive committee; each order fur payment must he signed by the President or the Chairman of the Executive committee. Corresponding Secretary. The duty of this offi cer shall be to write a correspondence with all persons interested in Agriculture, whether in the State of Pennsylvania or elsewhere, but especial ly with our Consuls in foreign countries, that new seeds, vegetables or live stock, may be introduc ed, and their fitness fur cultivation soil propaga tion in our climate be tested. At each stated locating of the Society, he shall read his corres pondence—which shall, either the whole or such us may be selected by the Society, form n "Mon of the transactions. Ha shall also corres pond with the President, or other officers of each State Society in the United States, at least twice in a year, for the purposes of combined and mu tual action, and to be informed of the result and progress of each others efforts ; also, to invite mechanics to forward models or implements for examination and via. The Recording Secretary shell keep the minutes of the Society, and of the Executive Committee. At the close of each year, he shall prepare tor ' publication such parts of the minutes and trans actions of the Society, us may be designated. The Librarian shall take charge of all ',As, pamphlets, &e., belonging to the Society, and shall act as curator to preserve secds, implements, or whatever property the Society may possess. . - The Executive Committee shall transact the busi ness of the Society generally, Roil shall superin tend and direct the publication of such of die re ports and transactions as they may deem proper, and shall designate the dines and places fur annual exhibitions, regulate the expenditure, examine all accounts, and keep such general charge of the af fairs of the Society as may best promote Its inter ests. They shall select their own Chairman, and meet monthly ; five members shall form a quorum. They shall call special meetings of the Society when necessary. Sec. 4. The Society shall meet annually on the third Tuesday of January, at Harrisburg, when all the officers of the Society shall he elect ed by ballot fur the ensuing year. nod until anoth er election. They shall also hold a general meet ing at the time of the annual exhibition, and special meetings whenever convoked by the Ex ecutive Committee. Fifteen members shall form a quorum fur the transaction of business, but no member in arrears shall be entitled to the privi leges of the Society. Sac. 5. This constitution may be altered or amended at the annual meetings in January, by a Tote of two-thirds of the members in attendance. A spirited discussion ensued upon the adoption of the proposed Constitution, which was kept up during the aftarneou and evening. It wee tiuelly eclerted by a ensniuntrt Tory. On Wednesday afternoon the Convention again re•assenmbled in the Hall of the House, when th• State Society was organized by the election of the Hon. FREDERICK WATTS, of Cumberland, Presi dent, with twenty-tow Vice Presidents, represent ing each Congressional district, a Corresponding and a Recording Secretary, a Librarian, an Agri cultural Chemist and Geologist, an Executive Committee consisting of five members, and a Treasurer. A menruriai to the Legislature set ! tiug forth the object of the Convention and pray ing for aid, was then submitted by Judge Wood ward, and a series of resolutions passed at an evening session, after which the Convention al. journed sine die. The followiog is the Memorial adopted:— THE MEMORIAL, Or a Convention held at Harrisburg on the 22n4 and 23d days of January, 1851, respeetively represents That a large number of citizens of the Com monwealth, having come together at the sent of the State Government, formed themselves into a convention for the purpose of better deliberation. They represented every section of the State.— Their objects were patriotic, and their views were altogether free front selfish influences. Devoted to the best interests of the great Commonwealth to which they have the happiness to belong, and anxiously desirous to promote them, they adopt ed the outline of a plan fur the encouragement and advancement of agriculture in Pennsylvania. As a practical art and useful science, it is peculiarly adapted to the condition and habits of the people, and is identified with the prosperity of the State. It is susceptible ef being brought home to the pursuits of the great majority of the people, and of contributing to the advantages of all. While as individuals, your memorialists are ready to make every exertion for the attainment of the great object which brought them together, they are too well satisfied that their efforts must he fruitless, and their hopes, however ardent, must end in disappointment, unless they could receive the official countenance of your honorable bod ies. Your memorialists knowing that for all good purposes there is strength in union, have cordially united themselves together. They are animated with a belief that the spirit which has led to the undertaking, nod which cherishes a trust in the accomplishment of it, will not Ml but that it will continue to inspire them until the scheme, which they feel to be praiseworthy, shall be crowned with success. Yet they know that the extensive and public undertaking which they rep resent, mast be founded on public support. Your memorialists respectfully appeal to the Legislature of the Commonwealth as the imme diate representatives of the people of the Corn monwealth fur that support. Without it, they would be constrained to abandon their design.— With it, their design cannot fail to prosper. A constitution has been framed chiefly nrcn the model of the constitution of similar societies already established in sister States. The results which have been reached elsewhere, are convin cing proofs of the propriety of the individual effort, and of the wisdom mad sound policy of Legisla tive encouragement. State Agricultural Societies are prosperous and beneficial wherever they have been formed. It is believed that no interruption has been found in their career. It is certnin, that they have given birth to improvements in many departments of Agricultural science, and practi cal utility, equal to the moat anxious hopes of their founders. It is no less certain that the sa gacious policy of the Legislative bodies, which have spread over them the mantle of the law, has been recompensed by an irrease of prospority and an expansion of the various elements of greatners and wealth, which are the just aims of sovereign States. In giving encouragement to agricultural societies our State Commonwealths did but imi tate wise examples set by other countries. Our OWII great Commonwealth cannot err in profiting by the light of melt wide spread and unfailing experience. The constitution framed by this convention, is respectively submittal as a basis fur legislative action. It will be acceptable in such form and with such details, as your honorable bodies shall consider worthy of being introduced.—The convention, knowing the necessity of a charter for the effectual existence of the society, respect fully prays fur an enactment in the shape the Legislature may deem best and appoye. As an incident to Legislative protceton, pecu :Mary assistance is respectfully asked. Individual funds will be contributed, it is hoped, not relue tantly or in small measure. If the effort shall succeed, other sources of contribution through the medium of the operations of the Society will be found. Its energies however must be crippled, and its existence would be brief, if the Common wealth did not lend available assistance by the appropriatlun of money. The resources of our State, as yet but imperfectly developed will, it is confidently hoped receive for this undertaking an impulse that will not lie arrested in the course of ages. The soil is prolific in great varlety, and endless extent of wealth. Of dimensions, scarce ly less than those of any of the older members of the Union t in population, second only to one; in situation central, sod surrounded by prosper- Ong soverneignties generously emulous of each others prosperity, combined efforts of individual enterprise nail Legislative wisdom end liberality alone are wanting to give to Pennsylvania the dig nified and commending position designed for bee by nature, and pointed out by tbo unerring finger of Provideuee. Your memorialists reephctfully pray that a char ter of incorporation may be grahted to the ''Penn Sylvania State Agricultural Society," Ly legisla tive enactment, and that such appropriation may he made for its relief and assistance ae to your honorable bodies may seem just. And your memorialists will ever pray, and so forth. Harrisburg, Jan, 23, 1851. GovEttison RAMPEY, of Minnesota had retru ed to St. l'aul, on the 21st ult., from a visit to the upper country. The Chippewa Indians were re ported to he suffering severely for want of provis ions, and the bad quality of what they had. Dis ease was rile among them, and not lees than nne hundred and eizty-eeren r 4 the tribe had perished within a thrert shalt.