back and conquered the foe! Now tlet
we Lave grown stronger under our institu
tions, I cannot forget the history ot the
past, and contemplate without emotion the
idea that those two States shall ever he
brought into conflict upon fields of battle.
[ Applause. ]
Mr. President, otir path ot* duty is plain.
In regard to our domestic troubles, we !
must maintain the supremacy of the consti- i
tution and laws. Fidelity to these in all j
things, by ell sections, and at all times,
and obedience to the constituted authorities
of the land, will make this Union perpetu
al. [Applanse.J With our Union as ii is, j
and thorough fraternal feeling between its i
various parts, we may present ourselves ;o ■
the world as a grand nationality, fostering;
its own labor and developing its own re- .
sources — as a people independent , whether J
in peace or in war, capable of doing our
own voting, and, when necessity calls, ca- j
pahle of doing our own fighting, too'— i
{Applause,]
Let us move on in defence of these great i
principles, and then as we grow stronger i
and stronger, America will quicken and
lengthen her step in the grand march of ;
nations in human progress: and as those of
us who are now actors in the great move
ment shall have been gathered to our fath
ers, our childrcu may hail those glorious;
stars and stripes which now hang so grace- j
fullv over you, Mr- President, and to which :
we have plighted our fidelity, iu the lan
guage ef one of our native lorn jocls--
forever float that standard sheet.
Where breathes the foe lint falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet.
And Freedom's banner waving o'er us. "
As Mr. Campbell retired, the meeting
cheered with great enthusiasm and pro- j
longed thechaors for some time.
Mr. Crittenden then followed in an elo- j
quent addres.s.
mmn IXMIITWUL
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~~ „ , BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday April 25. I 85
"Fearless and Free."
l> VV ID OVER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
FOll PRESIDENT:
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ANDREW JUKSON DONELSOX
OF TENNESSEE.
IMOX THRET.
Canal Commissioner.
THOMAS E. COCHRAN,
Of York County.
.iuditor General ■
DARWIN PHELPS,
Of jfrmsfror.g County.
Surveyor General •
B ARTUOLOMEW LAPORTE,
Of Bradford County.
MMM MEETING.
There will be a meeting of the Ameri
can party of Bedford County, on Tuesday
evening of next Court, (May 6<h,) (or the
purpose of consulting together, and making
arrangements for the coming campaign.—
Speakers will be present 'o address the
meeting.
Locofocoism is defunct in Bedford coun
ty, and since their inglorious defeat last
tail, and at the Spring elections, the foreign
party die hard. Their day is gone by, so
far as good ol i Bedford County is concern
ed, and it, only behooves us to make one
more glorious effort, and Foreign Catholo
eisni will be o prostrated here, that thev
will never hereafter be able to make a seri
ous effort. Americans! arouse! buckle on
your armor! andonee more march en to
battle and to victory ! The oause is a glo
rious oue, and those only who love their
country, her free institutions, and liberty—
eon engage, in it. The elections in the dif
ferent States that have come off this
Spring, have ull lesulted gloriously for
the American party. The foreign party
has met with total rout. Americans of
Bedford County ! open the campaign deter
minedly, and join with your sister Counties
and States in the good cause ! Let i.heie
be a good turn-out at the meeting' Come
one, coin* all!
••Forever float that standard sheet,
Where hreatbos the toe but tails before us,
With Freedom's s"i! beneath our feet.
And Freedom's banner waving o'er us."
April 25, 185ti.
ICRTFFE ME.NO EE HOUSE. —We call
the attention of the public to the card of
Mr. Valentine Stockman, formerly of the
Globe Hotel. It will be seen that he has
takeu charge of the Mengol House, lately
in the occupancy of Capt. Jan. S. Beck
vrith. Mr. Stockman is an accommodating
guni.sßjan, and makes goad landlord.
JCRT or INQUPBT. — A Jury ol Inquest
wa3 held on Tuesday last, on a colored
child of about six months of age, living
with its mother at the public house ot Mrs.
C-'Ok. It was iu good health the night be
fore, auu in the morning was found dead in
the bed The Jury returned a verdict o:
death from cause unknown.
LIQUOR LAW!
It will be recollected that the foreign
party last sunnier, made all their political
capital out of "the odious Jug Law," as
they were pleased to term it. They placed
the whole responsibility of its passage on
tie American party, and everywhere iu the
State, pledged their candidates for the Le
gislature, if elected, to go for its uncondi
tional repeal, and return to the former
license laws. They said they were good
enough, and tuat the people wanted uotli
ing else. Bv this meaus they were enabled
to carry a large majority of both brim-lies
of the Legislature, and have things all their
own way. How have they fulfilled their
pledges to the people? They promised to
repeal the .lug Law, the first thing they did,
after the meeting of the legislature, and
yet they allowed three months of the ses
sion to pass by iu wrangling among them
selves 011 the subject. They then passed
the present law, which every one will admit
is the most stringent and exacting license
law, that was ever passed in Pennsylvania,
and unjust in many of its provisions, be
cause it discriminates between the rich man
and the poor man. It requires a license
fee so outrageously high, that a poor man
cannot take out license under its provis
ions, and no one, unless lie is rich, is able
to pay the fee. It also discriminates against
the poor man iri the provision which re
quires that he shall have at least four bed
rooms und eight beds, in every city or coun
ty town, and two bed-rooms and four beds
in any oilier portion of the .State. Poor
men, that do not own, or are not able to
rent large houses accoidirg to this
act, cannot take out license. The
act requires a large license fee, and nabob
bouses—consequently the price of liquor
will be put up to double the present charge,
and the poor man who takes his driuk, has
to bear the burden. It docs away with at
least one half the taverns in the State, and
consequently reduces the value of all this
property. In towns like Bedford, the li
censes are five times as high as under the
j old law,and in the country, more than twice
!as large. (>n account of its provisions not
more than two or three public bouses will
|be allowed iu Bedford—not as many by
half as are required in Court Week and
Spring Season. It requires excessively
high bail, which would be hard for the poor
man to procure. It places a set of spies
over the tavern keeper, and allows them
one-third of the fine as a bribe, and also
allows him to become a witness.
Such are only a few of its provisions, ,
neai ly all bearing against the poor ruan, and
such is the bill passed by the late Locofoco
Legislature. Every locofoco in the Sen
ate, that was there on the final vote, and
nearly every one in the House, voted for
this bill. Messrs. BEItNHARD aud
SMITH, the members of the House from
this district, who were pledged against the
Jng Law and in favor of a return to the
old license bw>, both voted for this new
law, and the Bedford Gazette has not one
word to say in condemnation of their course.
How do the people like the new Locofoco
Liquor and how do they like tho man
ner of the Locofoco party violating all their
promises to the people on this subject?—
Let theu> answer at the ballot-box next
fall.
THE LEGISLATURE
Adjourned on Tuesday last, and every tax
payer may well exclaim, thank God that it
is so! for a more reckless and graceless
set of scamps, than the majority of its
members, never assembled at Harris burg.
They have created new offices, at enormous
salaries, for the purpose of rewarding par
ty services; they have increased the sala
ries of the Supreme and I'resideut Judges,
throughout the State, when it is well known
that they are already high enough: they
professed great hostility to the law of last
session, allowing a salary of SSOO to the
members, but when the question came tip
for repeal this winter, every Locofoco voted
•gains' it, and the law stands; they at
tempted to pass a bill to elect apolitical fa
vorite State printer, by wbich the tax pay
ers would have been plundered of thou
sands of dollars; they have squandered
thousands upon thousands, when they know
that Pennsylvania already groans under a
debt of upwards of §40,000,000 1 Well
may all our people hope that another such
set of desperate political plunderers, may
never again be sent to the capitol of the
State. Remember these facts next fall,
and never again allow yourselves to be de
ceived by the lies of the foreign-papist par
ty.
The last Gazitte recommends that the
Foreign party should call the American
party, " Federal Abolition Kuow Nothing
Republicans'" Is'nt that dreadful ? Es
pecially so, when it i> known that tRe Ga
zette wa as the Federal orqan,
in this piace, and opposed Jefferson, Madi
son, and Monroe, and also the war of ISI2-
And again, when it is known that the pres
ent proprietor of that preßs, when ho pur
chased the Gazette, bound himself in am ar
ticle of agreement to Charles McDowell,
dee'd, its founder, to print a paper, sup
porting the same principles! Such a f v I
low to talk of Federalism ! It is always
tbo case that those who profess the most
horror of that old party, themselves start
ed life as Federalist*.' We presume this
is the reasou the Gazette now supports Bu
chanan for I 'resident, another old Federal
ist, also.
Our friend, Mr. Bowman, has never yet
informed us, who appoiuted James A.
Drane, Keeper of the Arsenal at Harris
burg? Neither has he iuformed us wheth
er he is going to take the proceeds of the
§SOO mail contract advertisement, to pay
the expenses of the trial. The poor tax
payers have to suffer on account of the ap
pointment of these rob bers. But it is all
right when Locofoooism appoints such fel
lows. Do give as a little light on this sub
ject, Mr. Bowman !
After reading the history of Buehauan
from the Pennsylvanian which is to be pub
lished in this week's Gazette, we would re
quest all our readers tc read the history
which we publish on our first page this week,
from the Pottsville Register A' Emporium,
the organ of the Locofoeo party in Scuyl
kill County. It is a good deal more truth
ful and life-like. The Locofocos, like the
Kilkenny eats, are eating one another up>
on ihe Presidential question.
SNOW.—There was a fall of show on
Sunday aod Monday last, to the depth of
about five or s>x inches. It snowed hard
all day Monday. It has all disappeared,
however, except on the mountains. This
is quite an cnusual occurrence with us so
late in the Spring.
We call attention to the speech of Hon.
Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, which we pub
lish on our first page. It is one ot the ablest
speeches on the American question we have
yet seen, and should be read by every
body.
We call attention to the advertisement
of Mr. Jacob Reed, in another column.—
He is selling goods cheap. Call and sec
his stock.
The communication of "Auditorius,"
will appear in our next.
Hon. F. JORDAN —lt must be a source
of gratification to the people of this Sena
torial District to know that they are repre
sented in the legislative Halls of the State
by one of the most faithful, active and en
ergetic members of tbe present Senate.—
Mr. Jordan has desplayed a degree of
promptness and legislatiie knowledge equal
to the best of his eofetnpnparies and exeel
'ed by no member of his te -s. Dung h B
Senatorial career he has won the esteem of
his fellow members, the admiration of tie
people of his district,and the abounded con
fi lence of his political friends.— Fulton
Republican.
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Cor. Inquirer and Chronicle.
IIAURISBURG, April 21, 1850.
MR. EDITOR:—The Legislature will ad
journ to-morrow at noon: aud the clown of
the Session is accompanied by u.-uai
confusion and excitement. The Senate lets
been getting along with comparative smooth
ness, but in the House, for the last few days,
the "noise and coufusiou" have been unu
sual, if not unprecedented. The bill for
the repeal of the Act of last winter, re
pealing the Charter of the Erie and North
East Railroad Company, was under consid
eration. Tha opposition to it has been pro
tracted and violent; and not unfrequeutlv
when all other means failed the enemies of
the measure would sit still in their seats,
and stubbornly refuse to vote upon the calls
for the yeas aud nays, and thus leave the
voters a minority or less than a quorum,
and the vote would of course be good for
nothing. Tt is the last edition of the Erie
riots yet published; and is as little credita
ble to the State as anv which have preceded
it. The storm of war is still raging in the
House this morning, to the great prejudice
of other business; and it is feared the re
sult will be tbe defeat of a number of im
portant bills, at this critical time.
The appropriation bill has passed both
branches finally, iu about the shape hereto
fore stated. What ts called the claim bill
has also passed, appropriating somewhere
about three hundred thousand dollars to
pay sundry claims against the common
wealth, nearly all originating on the public
works. The Canal Commissioners not un
frequentiy figure out a report showing that
the receipts on the public works exceed the
expenditures. Of course such little items
as the ?300,000 above named are not in
cluded in these reports. If they were the
balance sheet would be widely different.
So:ne days ago the democratic side of the
Senate got into a fit of economy, and whilst
in it urged the passage of a bill to abolish
the office of tonage agent on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. It was alledgcd that the
office was altogether a sinecure, and that in
this way the State was payiug eight hund
red dollars per annum to thieo men for do
ing nothing, thus wasting ?2100 per an
num. Tbe bill passed the Senate without
any objection, some members merely ex
pressing their regret that the democratic
economists had not discovered the sinecure
character of the office, whilst Gov. Bigler
had and exercised tbe power of appoint
ment. Tbe bill was sent to the House, and
quite recently catne back, so changed that
its best friends hardly knew it. The whole
Senate bill was stricken out and a section
substituted retaining the office of tonage
agent, increasing his salary from eight buud
red to twelve hundred dollars per anuum,
and authorizing the Canal Commissioners
to make the appointment. Strange as it
may seem, no sooner was the House substi
tute presented to the Senate, than ihe very
men who had before declared the office a
sinecure, appeared to be fully convinced to
the contrary, — the appointment by the Ca
nal Commissioners instead of the Governor,
seeming to Lave made all right, and in per
fect accordance with democratic notions of
economy. The trick was so transparent a
one to take the power of appointment from
the Governor and to give it to the Canal
Commissioners, that two democrats, to their
credit be it spoken, repudiated this grand
economical arrangement, and voted with the
opposition, and spoiled the whale concern.
•Judge Kane's venue bill is hopelessly
dead. The bill for th? repeal of the law of
BEDFORD hUFI'IRKR AND CHRONICLE.
last session taking the tonage tax off oa!
and 1 umbelon the central railroad, is also
dead. Stpng efforts were wade to reini
poae this tpx to the great detriment of the
eoa'fieids tf Bedford, Huntingdon, Cam
bria and Westmoreland Counties, but its
palpable ijustice was such that it could not
be forced t,trough the Senate, although re
commended by the Canal Commissioners,
and endorsed in the House by a two-thirds
vote. Had the bill passed it would hare
fallen with crushing weight on the Uroad
tnp coalfield?, and all similar enterprises,
along the central railroad.
There is a rumor that the Governor will
veto the appropriation bill, because of sun
dry objectionable features therein. T con
sider tins not very likely, although there
are doubtless many things in it which he
would veta if presented on their owu merits.
He g< , a vast deal of credit for his ve
to of fhs'bill providing for the performance
of the Sttrte printing and binding. The
democrats got the bill up abolishing the
lowest bidder system, and providing for an
election of State Printer on joint ballot by
the Legislature. It was intended for tho
editors- of the Patriot and Union here, and
it was reasonably hoped it would enable
thtui to Luihi up a strong partizan press.
All these fond hopes, and patriotic desires,
were blasted by the veto. To meet the
Governor's objections a new section was ad
ded restoring the lowest bidder system, and
last week when the printing and binding
was allotted under the provisions of the
law, it was allotted to the saiue man who
does the work now, at sixty pa c-ent below
the rates fixed in the bill, and good securi
ty was given for faithful performance.—
The State printing therefore will be done
for the next three years for less than one
half what it would have cost uuder the bill
vetoed by the Governor. The printer un
der the present bill is also a democrat, and
some of his friends fearing he might not
be able to make much under the low rates
at which he has taken the job, especially
with an American Superintendent of pub
lic printing between him and 'be htate
Treasury, very kindly introduced a bill in
to the Legislature to abolish the office of
Supeiiutcndent of State printing altogether.
Had this succeeded, the treasury might have
been reached without much trouble, as it is
the duty of the Superintendent to examine
and pass the accounts. The attempt, how
ever, was too barefaced for the Senate, and
the bill shared tho fate it deserved.
As was long since suspected, and pre
dicted, the House has actually passed some
four or five bank bills, and thereby increas
ed the banking capital of the State over a
million of dollars! Among these bills too,
was one incorporating the Stroudsburg
Bank, and this was one of the bills vetoed
by the Governor last year. Whether any
thing has since occurred to secure his sig
nature to the bill remains to be seen. An
other of these bills was to increase the cap
ital stock of the Farmers'aud Mecbauics'
Bank of Phil., the uice little sum of seven
h n !red and jijty thousand dollars. This
was a clever addition to the capital of a
Bank which already had a capital of one
million two hundred and fifty thousaud dol
lars, and in'a place too where there is now
more than one-half of the whole banking
capital of the State. This looks like a
mammoth corporation; but I have no room
or time to pursue the matter further.
Voars, trulv,
SPECTATOR.
AXOTHKITjITr LAW-
The present Legislature, which the de
mocracy say is "largely democratic" passed
the license law which we published last
week. A Philadelphia paper says that af
ter a close reading of the law, it is unable
to find out what it amounts to. Harrison
Wright, a brawling leader of the democra
cy in the Legislature, denounced it on its
final passage as a "batch of mangled and
miserable Yankee notions exploded every
where, that the shame of its passage be
longs to the demecracy, and that they will
reap the harvest in the next campaign—
that it will have the same longevity as tho
jug law—that it will go to tho same dishon
orable grave with a few mourners—that its
decay begins with its birth, and that its ex
istence will be despised." So much for Mr.
Wright, for in the same breath he turned
round and voted for the very law that he
denounced.
Mr. Gctz, of Berks, another democratic
brawler, said "that the jug law was bad
enough but that this laiv was still worse."
And he voted for it. Mr. Hill, democrat,
of Westmorland, said that ho was sorry to
hear Mr. Wright denounce bis own bant
ling which he helped to bring into existence.
He did not think itsujh a monster. Mr-
Whallon, a big-mouthed democrat from
Eric, said it was a monster but he would
vote for it.
This seemed to be a democratic family
quarrel, and it was allowed to progress in
fine style by the Americans who looked 011
and laughed in their sleeves.
In the Senate it fared no better. They
kicked and enffed it around, and then they
all voted for it. Mr. Ingram (deal.) said
that it manifested a want of confidence in
thclintcgrity and virtue of the people.
Mr. Frazer (deni.) said that as this was
an experience meeting, he desired to give
an acoonut of the hope within him. He
was in favor of irou and coal companies,
and enough of banks to do the business, but
he was opposed to whiskey.
Mr. .Straub (dem.) said as thi was a
confessional meeting, he desired to say a
few words. The Speaker told him to make
his confession. He would vote for the bill,
hut he didn't like it. Mr. Southers said he
was glad to see the brethren opening up
their hearts. A great and mighty work was
going on aujong sinners.
Mr. (dem.) said he liked the gen
eral feature) of the bill. He thought this
law a little too tight. Mr. Price said it was
the best lawever passed.
Mr. Browt (democrat,) and the author
of the bill, sjid lie had voted for the Jug
Law, and he wautcd something as stringcut
us it, He said liis views were known and
lie would never surrender. lie an id tbi s
bill was not as stringent as he wanted, but
it was the best that could bo got now.—
Taggart said amen, and the bill passed
unanimously.
What a democratic party we have in our
midsil They denounce the "Jug Law,"
and then pass a worse one in its stead.—
Away with such inconsistency.— Juniata
Sentinti
DEMOCRATIC LOSSES.
The spring elections have been very
disastrous to the administration party. It
has lost Now Hampshire, the President's
own State. It has lost Rhode Island, which 1
gave Pierce her electoral vote, and which is
represented in the United States .Senate by
iwo Democrats. And, finally, it has lot
Connecticut, which also gave bet electoral
vote to Pierce, and sent Mr. Toucey to the
United States Senate. The result of the
extraordinary efforts ol the administration
in the last five weeks in three New England !
States, formerly Democratic, is therefore the I
loss of both of them and of two United j
States Senators to boot! A very sorry
account to render to the Cincinnati Conven
tion. A lamentable failure every way—
whether attributable to bad generalship or
to tbc overwhelming force of the enemy. j
The town elections in New York, also j
show corresponding defeats for the admin- !
istration. In that great Spite, once the
stronghold of the Democratic party, the ad
ministration has managed, by fusion with
the Republicans, to elect a supervisor or a
constable here and there; but when stand
ing alone upon its own demerits, it has uni
formly been defeated.
We are fully warantod, thorefore, says
the Washington in the assertion
that from present indications, the Demo
crats cannot carry a single Northern State,
with the exception of Illinois. In 1852
they carried every Northern State, with
the oxceptiori of Vermont and Massachu
setts.
The New York News, the organ of the
Hard Democracy, exposes a plot c?neoeted
by the Cabinet, to secure tbo reuouiination
of General Pierce. It is this. The soft
members of the New Y'ork Legislature are
to prepare an address, recommending the
admission of both the Hard and the Soft
delegations from that State into the Cin
cinnati Convention. One delegation wilt
thus neutralize the other, aud, and conse- j
qsently New York will be deprived of any ;
voice iu the president ial nomination. New j
I'crk being thus set aside, with her thirty- j
four votes, it is believed by the friends of j
Gen. Pierce, that by the mojority rule his 1
nomination may be secured.
The News is of coarse indignant at the
proposed outrage on New York, and its in
dignation will be shared by the
Democrats throughout tiie Union: but to no
effect. The decree has gone forth from the
Capitol that the National Democracy must
be proscribed, aud they will be proscribed,
by tii.' lieges of the adiuiuistration, and in
no section more ruthlessly than in the South.
The Southern Democrats in congress are
almost to a man supporters of the adminis
tration. They are untiring in their offurt H
to sustain it, here and elsewhere, and are
well known to be the most clamorous advo
cates for the reuomination of Gen. Pierce.
If the llards of New York wait for South
ern assistance to enable theni to be repre
sented in Cincinnati, thoy will wait till
doomsday.
It may be taken for granted, tuen, that
the New York Hards will have no voice in
the nvxt Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. This being the case, the vote
of the largest State in the Union, at the
next election, cannot be regarded as doubt
ful. It will be given to Fillmore and
Donoison, by a majority of from 20,000 to
50,000.
So also with Pennsylvania. No Demo
crat with a particle of intelligence expects
anything but defeat at the State election in
October. Neutral journals of the highest
authority, predict the election of the Union
ticket by at least 25,000 majority. Can
Pennsylvania be carried by the Democrats
in November, if they are beaten 25,000 in
October? It is a moral impossibility.
Under the most favorable circumstances
it is not easy to perceive how the Demo
crats can carry more than nine States at the
Presidential election, or less than seventy
five electoral votes, including the electoral
vote of Virginia, which, in the opinion of
many well-informed politicians, will be cast
for Fillmore and Donclson.
TAT TORNADO. — Our exchanges show
that the tornado of Saturday night week
extended to a considerable distance north
and west while we have no trace of it be
low the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace.—
A dwelling house, three miles this side of
Elkton, was blown down, and in its fall
caused the death of Mr. Wolf man, and a
man named Walker, a resident of this
State.
At Wilmington, a number of roofs were
blown off, and considerable damage done.
At West Chester the storm was severe.
The Republican contains a long account of
barns blown down, houses unroofed, chim
neys thrown over, churches inlnred, &c.
At P.ttsburg the storm commenced at
six o'clock, the wind currying everything
before it for a time, unroofing buildings.
' blowing down chimneys, and tearing up
trees.
At Reading, tha storm seems to have lost
, much of its force, but little damage having
been done.
At Philadelphia, over two hundred hous,
1 es were unroofed, and a uuniber ot buildings
were crushed to the ground. The loss to
j individuals alone is estimated nt over two
. hundred thousand dollars. Five churches
and one public school house were partially
{ destroyed.
! We have no accounts of the storm west
!of Alliance, Ohio. At that place the de-
J structkm of property r* estimated at frruu
fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. Laac
! Johnsec, a iVtncr residing near than town,
! was instantly killed by the falling of the
j walls of a store house upon him.
: LITER I'iilTll El iiOPK.
TREATY OK PEACE SIGNED.
AO TIjUIAOS OF THE TJC'JFJC.
i SAMDY IJOOK, April 17.—-The steamship
; Baltic, from Liverpool, with dates to the 2J
! inst., passed here about noon.
I She brings glad news that the Treaty of
j Peace was signed at Paris on Sunday, the
I 30 ultimo.
j No intelligence hal been received of the
: missing steamship Pacific,
i The declaration of peace was aDoounced
i pi Paris and London by salvos of artillery.
' Paris was illuminated, in accordance with
previous arrangements. In England the
{ church bell? were pealed iu joy over the
j event.
I Three or four weeks w ill probably elapse
! before the fin d ratifications will be exchang
ed, the details of the adjustm ut having
been referred to a commission.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says a council of Ministers was held
at the Tuillenes at half past 11 o'clock, :
and remained till 12 on Sunday at which the
Emperor presided. He gave his last in. ■
structious. Count Walewski returned to I
his official residence to receive the PlcnL
potentiaries. They came at half past I*2
o'clock, and after the treaty had been read
over they proceeded to sign if. The moment
the signatures were completed, the signal
was given and a salute proclaimed the news.
| Bulletins announcing tha fact were posted
| throughout the city.
ENGLAND
! Parliament re-assembled on Monday, the
| 31st ult. In reply to a query, Lord Pal-
I merston said that although the treaty of
! Peace was s : gned, yet it was determined by i
j the Conference that the particular conditions '
; should not he made puble until ratifications j
were exchanged. At the same time lie •
would express his conviction that the treaty '
would be deemed satisfactory by England '
and by Europe. It would be found that
the objects for which this war was under
taken had been fully accomplished, arid it
would lie found that the integrity ;
and independence ef the Turkish Em- '
pire had been secured. The treaty, be !
said, was honorable to all the contracting j
Powers, and while on the one hand, it has !
put an cud to the war, which every friend !
of humanity must have naturally wished to i
s ee concluded; on the other hand, it will j
lay the foundation of a peace which he !
trusted would be lasting and enduring.
On Monday the Lord Mayor of London '
made his official proclamation of Peace from
the portico of the Mansion House, and af
terwards at the exchange; salutes were fired
from the Tower and Port; guns and flags j
were generally displayed throughout the city '
and upon the shipping. In other cities
similar displays were made, but there was !
not tnuch enthusiasm shown.
The annexation of the Kingdom of Oude
had been accomplished without any distur
bance.
The Pans correspondent of the London
Times writes, that when the news of the
signing of the Treaty of Peace was an
nounced to the Emperor Napoleon, he ex
pressed himself to the following effect:—He
thanked the Plenipotentiaries for having come
in person to him with such agreeable tidings.
He observed that the result of their labours 1
during the conferences was a complete '
realization of the speech delivered by Lord
Clarendon in the House of Lords, and that
the peace which the Allies were determined
on concluded was oDe which carried with it
no humiliation to Russia, and which did not
compromise the dignify or independence of/
any one.
It was in fact such a treaty as a great
nation might propose or accept without deg- j
radation, and therefore, it had all the elc- }
rnents of solidity and durability. Ho ad- |
ded that so favorable a result was in great j
mcasmre owing to the conciliatory spirit and j
moderation which had marked the policy of j
England, and which was particularly felt j
in the course of the present Conferences.
The same writer says, -'there are other t
questions of paramont iuterest pending, and j
it would not be proper for the plenipotenti- j
arios to leave without taking them intooon- j
sidoration.
"Lord Clarendon has no intention Of j
quitting Paris for the moment. The best
feeling prevails among all classes, and al
most all parties, at the conduct of England
throughout,and the impression is that the
Peace will he found honorable for all con
cerned and satisfactory."
The Post's Paris correspondent writes. j
—"lf we make up accounts, perhaps the |
contrast is in favor of Russia, to wlirm wor_>!
has been givta tp than she has renounced.
Such a result is naturally the case, because
it was never the intention of England and
Fiance to punish the Muscovite aggression
with conquest involving the loss of territory
or permanent occupation.
The Times' Paris correspond rat renews
the rumor of a Congress in that capital on
the General State of Europe, with a view
to certain modifications. The real object,
perhaps, is to tfface it. some measure the
decrees of the Congress ■>( Vienna. Tit.-
writer adds that the English govern men;
lias coldly received the proposition, hut
the idea is a tamiliur out; l> the Emperor
and the tenacity of His Imperial Majesty it
such matters is well known.
The same corrpspodnent indulges in some
speculations relative to the secret proceed
ings of the Congress. It is stated that a
elau.se favorable to Sardinia has been iu c er-'
ted iu the protocols. This clause has refer
ence to the commercial interests of Piedmont
in coiitteetion wi'h the Danube. Fum,
(favour is said to hive demanded that Sar
dinian vessels should, on entering, or quit
ting, or ascending or descending tiie D muhe,
suffer no impediments.
Count Ha d is described ns having otTir
ed some opposition to the demand of the
Sardinian Government for these immunities
which were also supported bv the Marquis
de ViiJa Marina,the resident Sardinian Min
ister at Paris. They were favorably re
viewed by England, France and even Russia,
W!K> does not omit any opportunity of show
ing her resentment to her former friend.-
The conclusion of the discussion was there
fore favorable to r-'ardiuia.
But another and nmre serious topic was
subsequently brought forward ly the Sar
dinian Plenipotentiary, viz: the State </
Italy. M. (favor drew the attention of the
Congress to the present condition of th<-
couutry. He entered into details and dwelt,
on the dancer of leaving no important a
question undecided, and declared that th* r
Congress ought not to seperate without
coining to some decision on the question.
Count llaol expressed his surprise that
such a subject should be brought before the
Plenipotentiaries. They had met to con
sider the Eastern, not tha Italian question
and he maintained that it was not wit!ii. ;
their functions.
Count Favour disputed that opinion. II
denied that the question war more Inli.tu
than Earopean, and he maintained that as
they were met on nutters relating to the
generai interest an l welfare of Europe at
large, Italy was a perfectly legitimate sub
ject for consideration.
lie made further observations in tbc.sauio
strain, and again entreated the Congress to
take the question into consideration, as. r
they did not, the Italian question would
force itsolf ca Europe before tv.o year- had
passed away.
TIIE LATEST BV TELEGRAPH.
J.OMiiiN, ednoslay morning, April 2.
The ceremonial announcement of the con
clusion of peace was made ou Monday to
the French Senate aud corps Lcgitdalif bv
the Mmister of State. The Emperor thanks
them for the patriotic support always of
fered biu-., which, together with admirable
derotednoss of the Allied fleets and annic-q
contributed powerfully to the happy issue
of the war.
It has already been stated that the mem
b?rs oi the conference have still to perfect
a number of secondary arrangements, es
sential to the new state of relations estab
ed iu the East. L- Nora ays: one > f
those is the organization of the Principali
ties, and the Debats says, another isspecu*
regulations for assuring the free navigation
of the Danube.
Affi Bay embarked at Marseilles on Mon.
day, beaiitig the treaty to Constantino
ple.
A French officer of rank also embarked
on a special mission to the Sultan, from the
Emperor Napoleon.
BERLIN, Tuesday.—The announcement,
yesterday, in the Prussian Chambers, of the
conclusion of peace, was received with
cheers.
PICTURE OF PRESIDENT PIERCE.
—The New York Evening Post enter
tains this, opinion of the Democratic Presi
dent, whom it helped into the White House
"Mr. Pierce is a small lawyer from Con
cord, of slender capacity, and no finunosv
of principle—a person whose inteleetnal
character is bo-t expressed by a homely
metaphor sometimes used by hous-wives,
when thev say of a fecWb-minded mm that
ho U "rather slack hacked."
[CS~It is calculated frotn statistical tables
that the number of children born on tha
16th of March, in France, to all of wh-nn
the Emperor and Empress are godfather
aud godmother, must be about 2,500. Each
child is to receive a gift of 3,000 francs. —
All the boys must be named Louis Eugene,
all the girls Eugenie Louise. A sutu o*
100,000 ('ratios is to be given to the poor to
redeem articles trom pledge.
is hope for the Democracy.—
They have elected two Irishmen for B >rougii
officers, in ilie town cf New Hope, Bucks
county. Pa. Who says the Democracy is
dying !
ffyTatber Cahill, the loader of Raman
itn in Ireland, is to lecture throughout this
country exjore fit next jwwja.YvLH
tlccthn.