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ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PKICE OF LIBERTT.
F..MIAAI'I.IS, J i. UAItV 1, IK-IS.
Tin? 1 1: lib in;: System.
Tli clu'Mrg yntein introduced by tlie undersigned lm not nut
our expectation. We Lave given it a fair trial; but the extra
i ut-l.iy l a not beer, met by corresponding clforts on the p;irt of
our friends, with a few excr-j lions. It dors not, and cannot, under
csi.tinz circumstances, rtiord us a fair remuneration. vYhi! we
rolunlrrily trade the then recnt sacrifice, we did hope that the
mdncrrnert wa suthrient to ii.rres.re our to ?t Itaxt several
thousand over our former su sr rption. Giving more reading
- att.r for the pr.ee than can be obtained in any part of the W in
tra country, we bad hop"i our friends wnu!J lake advantage of
tlie lihrility . and rxeit themselves accordingly. Thi ha not
een Jone to a .egre rommen'maie with the plan projiosel.
Ilenre, ufier what ha lern a fair trial on our part, we sbail al.an
i'.on t' TMm of en' I intr ; and ha'l,l'ereaher, adopt the follow
iagt ,r- whi'h will be invnnatde. and permanent :
FOR OUK WHKKLY PATKH. Two I ollars a )enr, and the
virmey nil always accompany the cnltr or no it'ttution vtll bt given it.
JOHN D. HF.FRF.ES, Kditvr Journal
4MDecl ("H APMANS SPA N N. FJitors State Sentinel
Adjournment. Tuesday, the lOili in?t., lias been
fxn upon as the day for the adjournment of the Le
gislature, sine die.
Mule Convention.
The Whij; State Convention, for the nomination of
Governor and Lieut. Governor, assembled in this
city on Wednesday, (yesterday.) It was not very
generally attended by delegate?, though, including
the members of tlie legislature, tin; assemblage was
respectable. The forenoon was childly occupied by a
discussion as to the constitution cf a nominating com
mit lee, the chief dilr.culty being tho want of dele
gates from some counties. Finally, at V2 o'clock, a
committee of three fron each congressional clittlrict
was appointed, and the convention adjourned.
In tbe afternoon, a few gentlemen attempted to
make speech's, but without much success. Mr.
Tro.rell, of Madison, having evidently prepared him
self, did the best of the lot.
The nominating committee then reported the fol
lowing candidates :
For Governor, Klisha Emeuee, of Gibson Ca.
For Lieut. Governor, Thomas S. Stanfielp, of St.
Joseph Co.
These we should think are by no means the
strongest men which could have been selected, and
ran be easily beaten by the democrat, if their con
vention shall select better men. Indeed Home of the
whigs already admit that they arc beaten with such
men as cand;dates.
Ex-Gov. Wallace was president of the Convention, j
and I). P. IloJIoway, Esq., principal secretary.
C-We publish the School bill, as reported by the
Education Committee to the House. One of its most
important features is that it proposes to keep
the funds generally in the several counties where they
are raised, instead of first sending them to the State
Treasury to be afterwards divided.
It makes the Treasurer of State the General Super
intendent, which is wrong. These duties should be'
vested in the Secretary of State. He has more time !
to attend to them ; and something of the kind is !
reeded to make the office ot Secretary of Slate a lit
tle more important than a mere clerkship, which is all
it now is.
An attempt ha? already been mide in the House to
amend the bill b as to concentrate the fu ds in the
State Treasury ; but we think this will not be done.
In consequence of the crowded state of our col
umns, we must refer the reader to the reports of pro
ceedings for further information.
Cholera. For some days print the town has been
atTt-cteri by anxious inquiries about the cholera, and j
there have been rumors of death occasioned bv the !
disease as introduced by infected persons arriving l.y '
railroad. We have no authentic information of any '
death by the disease; if we had, we should h'tve no j
hesitation in stating it. I'eople should n I become!
alarmed by reports which they may hear. Fear is '
the very wor-t premonitory symptom of this or uny j
other disease. A clear conscience, cnrefnl habit, j
and benevolent filing- ure the best antidotes to this
or any other disease.
fjrSeveral "runaways" have occurred during the j
past few days : one a five horse team ; another a
horse and buggy: smashing every thing to pieces. I
On Tuesday, a pair of horses in harness, scared by j
an omnibus, broke loose from a waggon to which '
they were hitched and ran at full speed over the north '
side-walk of Washington street. Opposite Weaver's
cabinet shop they run over a .Mr. Chrk, who was
badly bruised, and escaped death, as it were, by a
miracle. i
fj-Mre. B-dton's lines on the death of the Ilev.
Mr. Johnson, wh'ph we recently published, are very ;
highly spoken of by every one, arid justly so. We
happen to know that the lines wen; written within a
few hours after the deceased breathed his lust, though :
their publication was delayed a day or two; but we (
do not think they could be improved by revision. Is J
not good poetry the offspring of the feelings as much
us the intellect ; and must it not necessarily partake j
of both qualities to be really good !
fjr-Maj. A. W. Gaines, paymaster, U. S. A., re
quests us to state that all claimants fur extra pay un
der act of Congress, July 19th, 1813, in the State of
Indiana, will be attended to at Washington city after
the Oth of January next. Up to that date they will
be attended to at New Albany, Indiana. The papers
throughout the State will please inufrt this notice for
the benefit of claimants.
There lias lately been strolling round this city, an
abortion of humanity, in the shape of a hunchbacked
biped," with legs like tongs, calling himself John
McMullin, and soliciting aid from our citizens, from
whom he has succeeded in swindling a considerable
amount. He is about five feet high, fluent in speech,
lies to a charm, get drunk, and spends his money
freely after he has obtained it. He pretends to be in
search of a brother. Our cotemporarics would do
well to notice the scamp.
P. S. He had better become honest, and run for an
off.ee.
The Popular Vote in the Presidemial Elec
tiun. Various tables, says the Pa. Ledger, are giv
en a the complete popular vote of the States for the
Presidency, but no two of which agree, the diflerence
amounting to thousands. There is enough certain,
however, to show that the full vote is about two mil
lions eight bundled thousand, being an increase of
about two hundred thousand over the vote for Presi
dent in 1811. The plurality of Taylor over Cass is
about one hundred and forty thousand. The free soil
ote ij three hundred thousand, and Taylor is in a mi
nority of the whole vote cast ubout one hundred and
sixty thousand. We have nn otficial table which, as
soon as Texan nnd Wisconsin are known officially,
wo Phall publish.
For LinEiUA. The American C donization Society
will send about four hundred negr-ns, 1. berated slaves,
to Liberia, in the present mouth. The vessels will
sail from New Orleans.
Rev. Mr. McLaio, S.-cretnry of the Am. Colon'ua
tinn Society, has been appointed by the government of
Liberia, to act ai the Minister to the U. S. govern
ment. TfTe appointment will no doubt bo recognized.
0-A corresjsindcnt of the Newcastle Courier
nominates D. P. Holloway of Wayne county ai a!
candidate for Congress in the 4th District.
Lntc Foreign Kcws Ily 'SYlcgrnpIi.
FOURTEEN' DAYS LATER.
Arrival of the stenmsr Europa htuis Xapolcon
elected President of France Emperor of Austria
abdicated Pope. Pin (shaped from ltd' Lite
from Irtl.m I Prussian VaiUumml disst.lvid.
J'jiiLAUKi.i'iiiA, Jar 1.
The steamer Europa arriwd at New Vurk yester
day. The news is again highly important. Louis Na
poleon has been elected President t f France.
The Emperor of Austria abdicated in favor of his
son.
Pope Pius fled from Rome, nnd escaped to Italy.
Cotton advanced one qr. penny per pound at Liv
erpool, and there is also an improvement in bread
stuff. PRUSSIA.
The King I;as dissolved his parliament, and pro
mulgated a new constitution.
AUSTRIA.
The Emperor of Austria has abdicated in favor of
his nephew, Francis Joseph, son of Archduke Charles,
a youth of eighteen, who bus formerly taken upon
himself the duties of a high ollice.
FRANCE.
Letters from Paris of Saturday evening, Dec. 9th,
describes tlie state of that city, as alarming in the
highest degree. Military preparations wen; made in
every quarter, and the police force was doubled.
There was some rioting, nnd Nablet ns friends met
and organized to suppress outbreaks in case of his
election.
Ghangarnier officially resigned the candidateship.
Lamartine friends made great exertions, nnd nil
Paris looked like one electoral meeting. Tue Bona
pirtist were a censed of an intention to assassinate
Cavaignac. M. Thiers, one of those who lied with
Louis Blanc and Causidicre, arrived in Paris on Fri
day. Letters received in Paris from the provinces,
state that Louis Napoleon's election would be thesis
nil for a great monarchical rising. A large body of
the National Guards were ordered under irir.3 for
Sunday.
Letters from Paris of Tuesday, say that the elec
tion lor President had definitely closed nil over France.
Enough was known to secure Louis Napoleon a lar
ger vote than wis expected by his most sanguine
friends. He received considerably more than a ma
jority over all others in every department heard from.
IRELAND.
The fjrat.d jury of Dublin returned true bills
ngiinst Mr. Dulfv f r felonious articles in the Nation,
and tor the letter to Smith O'Brien, urging him to
rebellion, found m that unfortunate man's porlmen
teau. The Southern and Midland papers are filled with
heart-rending accounts of deatli by starvation, exten
sive enactions of tenantry, the flight of tenants to
wards the emierant ships, and violent outrages in all
their disgraceful variety.
A Cji:i:ection. A few days ago we published a
letter of F. L. Claiborne relative to an alleged con
versation of Gtn. Taylor upon the subject of the slave
question in the territories. We now find in the Nnt
chez Cotrier of the 16th inst., another letter of Mr.
Claiborne which amounts to a full retraction of the
first. It is as follows :
Natchez, Dec. PJ. ISiS.
Hon. A. G. Brown Dear Sir: I have noticed a
brief extract from a letter of mine to you going the
rounds of the press. The extract purports to be a re
mark of Gen. Taylor to S. S. Loyd, Esq., on the
slavery question.
I fear the meaning of my letter is misconstrued,
and indeed I may have used stronger language thnn
I should have done, in the haste in which I generally
write.
(leneral Taylor in his conversation uith Judge
Iiord did not mention the irord territory, and spoke
cniinl'j of our rights, under thi constitution, in the
slave States. He expressed no opinion as to the pro
priety of extending slavery into the new territories,
or of restricting it to its present limits. It is well
understood here that the General studiously avoids in
dicating his views on this exciting point. I know
Judge Boyd would not misrepresent General Taylor,
and I nm viire 1 would not knowingly misrepresent
Jinlge Bo d.
In justice to all parties, may I ask you to give pub
licity to this letter, and oblige, vonrs t rulv,
f; l. cla'iborne.
We beg ptrdoti of tlie "Indiana State Journal" for
crediting to it some vicious attacks upon Gen. Tay
lor that came from the State Sentinel. The 'Jour
nal" never thus duhornrcd itself. X. Y. Express.
The Journal never dishonored itself" by "vicious
attacks upon Gen. Taylor," eh ! Some of the Gen
eral's friends hereabout thought the following para
graph from that print rather vicious at tho time it
was put forth, if we recollect aright :
"A regird to whig principles forbids the nomina
tion of (,en. Taylor." Indian Stale Journal,
April, IS IS.
Indiana U. S. Senat or. A dispatch from Indi
anapolis to the Tribune, stntes that Gov. Junes Whit
coinb, Loco, has been elected by the Indiana Legisla
ture a Senator in Congress, tor the term of six years
from the 4th of March next, in place of Hon. Edward
A. Hannegan. The Whigs generally voted for Mr.
Lir'e. Ail. mr 'r. Jour tut!.
The above is going the rounds rjf the eastern pa
pers. It is occasioned by a blunder of the Telegraph.
No such man ns Etrle was voted for at all. But Mius
lAgfrtry given to a shadow, while real flesh nnd blood
is cheated out of it. Sic. transit, etc.
Retorted Defalcation. Mr. Jus. W. Matthews,
ex-Auditor to the State of Mississippi, is rep orted to
be a defaulter of the State. He had been held to
bail in $1000 to await an examination. Mr. .Mat
thews says:
MI think I will show that I do not owe tho State a
single dime, but on the contrary, that the State is in
debted to me ; and that the prosecution against me is
founded in a total misapprehension of the merits of
the case."
Connecticut. The whigs of Connecticut held a
State Convention at Hartford on the 29th ult., Hon.
Charles W.j Rockwell, of Norwich, presiding. The
following State ticket was nominated:
Governor, Joseph Trumbull, Hartford; Lieutenant
Governor, Thomas Backus, Killingly ; Secretary of
State, Roger M. .Mills, New Hartford; Treasurer,
Stephen Taylor, Middletown ; Controller, AbijahCat
lin, Harwintown
The Postmaster General advertises the following
rates of postage for the Pacific ; half ounce letters,
Pii cts. to Havana, 20 cts. to Chagrcs, lit) cts. to
Panama, and 10 cts. to any ports north. No inlmd
postage is charged on them. Newspapers and pam
phlets pay three tents, sea postage and inland postage.
(7- Gerrit Smith, Esq., contributed 2'J() for the
defence of the persons indicted at Washington City,
for stealing slaves. This donation is in addition to
one of sfjOO, previously made by him.
The General Assembly of South Carolina have de
termined, after a heated debate of a week's duration,
'that it is inexpedient to re-charter the Bank of the
State."
The Yincennes Sun bus stt, us wo learn from the
Gazette.
An Oii Fei low Misinu. Ihvid Hall, member of
Myrtle Idge No, 11) 1, I.O. 0. F., in Brooklyn, New
York, myttenoinly disappeared fro in Milwaukie some
two or three months sime. It is feared he was mur
dered. Odd Fellow ar-' requeued t: communicate
any information tint may be elicited by inquiring in
the difiercnt lodges of the United Stn ten ; the same to
be directed to the Secretary of the above lodge.
Mis Dix i petitioning tlie North Cirolina Legisla
ture to endow a Lunatic Asylum, and with to much
success that a joint committee has reported a bill np-
prujTiuting 100,000 tor the purpose.
The Vnion states that Mes-trs. Aspinwall Sc Co.
have deposited with the Government of Xuw (Jrenida,
tlie sum of six hundred thousand francs, as a guaran
tee that they will construct the Pun ami railroad
within a given period. '
;Thc It'ctv Year's Xight of mi C nluippy
1 One.
FROM THE HERMAN OF JEAN TAUE RICHTER.
J In New Year's night an old man stofnl at the win
dow, but cast a look of deep despair tip to the un
changing, ever-blooming ky, and down upon the
still, pure, snowy earth, on which now no one was
: o ben ft of joy and sleep, as I.e. For his grave
stood close before him. It was covered only by the ! !
snow of nge, not by the verdure of youth, and ho
j took nothing with him from this whole, rich life
i nothing but errors, sins and d. sense, nit emaciated
I body, n desolate soil his bosom, full of poison and
nn age full of repentance. The benutiful days of Iii
youth were changed to-day into ghriKts, ami trans
ported him back to thnt bright morning, where his
father had first placed him on the cross-roads of life,
which to the right, upon the sunny road of virtue,
leads into a w ide, peaceful land, full of light and har
vest of angels, and which on the left drags down in
to the mole-hills of vice, into a black cave, full of
dropping poison, full of biasing snakes, and black,
hot vapors. Alas, the serpents clung around his
breast, and the drops of poison were upon his tongue,
and he knew not where he was.
Unconscious, and with inexpressible grief, he lift
ed up his hands townrds heaven, and exclaimed:
"Oh, give me back my youth ! Oh father, place,
place me once more upon the eross-roads, that I may
choose otherw ise !" Rut his father and his youth had
long passed away. He saw ignus fatni dancing upon
swamps and extinguished iu church ynrds, ond he
said : "They are my days of folly !" He saw a star
fly from heaven, it glittered in its fall, and vanished
on the earth. "Thatis I !" said his bleeding heart,
and the serpent teeth buried themselves deeper into
his wounds.
ILs glowing imagination showed him stealthy
sleep walkers on the roof ; nnd the windmill lifted up
its arm, ready to crush hirn, and a skull in the emp
ty chnmel house by degrees assumed his features. In
the midst of this convulsion the New Year's music
suddenly floated down from the steeple, like distant
church songs. His emotions became more tender;
he looked around the horizon and over the wido
earth, and he thought on the friends of his youth,
who now, happier and better than he, were fathers of
happy children nnd blessed men, and In; said, "Alas,
I too might like you have been bleeping with
tearless eyes through this New Year's night, if I hnd
chosen. A Jas, 1 might have betn happy, dear par
ents, if I had fulfilled your New Year's wishes and
admonitions."
In the feverish recollection of his youth, it appear
ed to him as if the skull with his features was aris
ing iu the charnel-house; finally, through the super
stition, which in the New Year's night beholds spir
its and futurity, it was converted into a living youth,
like the beautiful youth on the cnpitol, extracting a
thorn from his foot, and bitterly his fancy showed
him h;s blooming figure.
He could view it no more: he covered his eyes ; a
thousand hot tears vanished in the snow : disconso
late and despairing he sighed lowly "Return, O !
youth, return !"
And it did return ; for he had only dreamed so hor
ribly in the New Year's night, he was still a youth.
His sins alone, hnd not been a dream ; but he thank
ed (red that he, still young, had it still in his power
to withdraw from the filthy wavs of vice, and to re-
! turn to the sunny paths which leads to the pure land
! of harvest.1.
I Turn back with him, young reader, if you nre
I standing on the path of error! This horrible dream
j will by and by become your ju !ge, but if you should
j once cry out in misery, "return, beautiful youth !" it
would never return.
"This statue is preserved on the capital of Rome, nnd
is nexl to the Appullo of Belvidere ; it i considered one
of the most perltet pieces of workmanship which anti
quity produced.
The Old Year :m the New.
1S13 (spaKs.)
I faint upon December's lap of tmow,
I watch my lees of life drop 0110 by one J
Young forty-eight is on the wntch below,
To till my hoes, nliuoft ere. breiith be gonu.
But listen, greedy heir, lhe;igh faint nnd old,
.My heart id hig with work, not worked in vain ;
Tfiis hnnd, now palsied, forced Protection's hold
And loosed the giant Commerce from his chain.
And nil thu night, the hint night of my life,
Er I go hffice In join the hosü of Tune,
I Imo InuJ glorious vision-. W'nr ami Strif
Lay dead, und by them Hunger, Hate nnd ('rime.
Ami INiace nnd Plsnly, Knowledge, Hope and Love.
Shotn? round my bed like angels, und bowed down
To my dim eyes ; and then liier came a dovo
That placed on my fore hair an olive crown.
Who will crown thee, young upstart? What remain
Of glory f.ue!i as mine beneath the stnm ?
The year thnt sho k from Industry her chains,
Tlie year that ppoko tlie doom ot huuinn warn.
1 3 11) (znsictrs.)
Kcowl not in death, old n'tre, nor think my hand
Would break one leaf from off thy crow n : In thee
I bow to a great year ; but through the land
Achievement huge enough i left for inc.
Tliv boon u incomplete ; what hast thou given,
Matt-rial hleNRing to material man
Who wnila what 1 mut du, ere he have striven
L'p 10 the compile ot his huniou vp-in.
Thou gavest wealth I'll teach him how to use it ;
Thou g ivt st peace it arts I most beMow ;
War, thanks tu tliee, is hucIi that they who choose it
Choose isolation, btgg.iry nnd wo.
Bui Ig'-orance i left, nnd where thnt is
li war 'twill li?hl nnd ilarkriifs ; be it mine
To chase, that darkne bark to tho abyn,
To lift that light, wide n nge, sex or clime.
What school mut I not build ? What priimna purgo ?
What self-content d loulut n clear nway ?
Oli, there M work for me and in my dirg
Deeds may be told, great in in thine, to-day -Punch.
South Carolina. The Committee on Federal
Relations in the Senate of South Carolina have pre
sented resolutions declaring
"That this General Assembly cordially approves
and adopts, ns its own, the resolutions passed by the
Legislature of Virginia in the year 147, wherein it
is asserted that under no circumstances will that body
recognize any enactment of the federal government
which has for its object the prohibition of slavery in
any territory acquired either by conquest or treaty
atid that the passage of the Wilmot Proviso by Con
gress, makes it the duty of every slave-holding State
and all citizens thereof, as they value their dearest
privileges, their sovereignties their independence
their rights of property to taxo firm, united, and
concerted action in this emergency."
In the House the same commute.) reported that
they agreed with the governor, but that the present mo
ment is not propitious to decisive action.
Governor Seabrook, iu his inaugural address, urges
tho citizens of South Cirolina to discharge all the ir
constitutional obligations, but bo prepared for every
emergency, and "all to redouble their vigilance in
guarding from pollution the precious heritage of a
common ancestry." He say
'Wheneve tho citizens of the Slave States shall
firmly believ '.hat the compact to which their fathers
subscribed, secures neither liberty nor property to
them or their posterity, it will be idle to waste time
in conjectures concerning tho future. The result is
already known. The head nnd heart of the patriot
proclaim it. That period, in the solemn judgment of
him who addresses you, is rapidly approaching. lo
be reNidy to meet it, is u dutv you owe to the State,
the Union, nnd the cause of Constitutional liberty."
G Hiera I Owens subsequently reviewed the Fiflh
re'giment eif cavalry, addressing them iu a spirit
htirring speech of twenty minutes long, iilluding "to
the gallant achievements of our officers and privates
in tho Mexican wur, and warning the troop to be
prepared for nny issue, wen one of power that may
grow out f our present relations with the Federal
Government.'
OT" The following significant prediction occurs in
a recent British Mngazine:
Men will not always circumnavigate the earth to
convey merchandise from one point to another. They
w ill not take goods around Cape Horn, or tho Cape of
Good Hope, on the way from Canlon to New York.
The oriental trade of America, will, infallibly, some
day find its way across the Ann ncan continent. The
straits of Juan de Fuca, will be the funnel through
which it will be poured into the New World.
The Government of Territories.
In l'-2-$, Criief Justice Marshall gave nn opinion in
a Florida case (I. Peters) which bears on this ques
tion, and nlsoon the da very queetioti.
The court took into view the relation in which !
Florida, as a territory stood to the United States,
"The Constitution," says Chief Ju-ti-e Marshall,
"confers absolutely on the Government of the United
States tho power of making war and treaties ; c nv-
quently that Government possesses the power of ac
quiring territory, cither bv conquest or by treaty."
The usage of the world is, if a nation be not en
tirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered
territ.-ry as a mere military occupation until its fate
be determined at the ttraty of pence. If it be ceded
by the treaty, the ncquinion is confirmed, nnd the ce
ded territory becomes a part ef the nation to which it
is nnnoxed, either on the terms stipulated in the trea
ty of cession or on such as its new master shall im
pose. On such transfer of territory it has never been
field that the relations of the inhabitants with each
other undergo any change. Their relations with their
former Sovereign are dissolved, and new relations are
created between them and the government which has
acquired the ir territory. The mere net which trans
fers the allegiance of those who remain in it; and
the law which may be denominated ol iticnl, is ne
cessarily changed, although that whi- h regulates the
intercourse and general conduct ef individuals, re
main in force, until altered by the newly created
pow er of the State."
'The tieaty by which Florida was ced-d is the
law of the land, and admits the inhabitants of Flori
da to the enjoyments of the privileges, right3 and im
munities eif the citizens of the United State. It is
unnecessary to inquire, whether this is not their con
dition, independent of stipulation. They do not, ho w
ever, participate in political power; they do not share
in the government, till Florida shall become n State.
In the mean time Florida continues to be a territory of
the United States, governed by virtue of that clause
of the Constitution, which empowers Congress "to
make all needful rules and regulations respecting the
territory or ether property belonging to tlie United
States."
Perhaps the power of governing a territory belong
ing to the United States, which has not, by becoming
a State, acquired the means of self-government, may
result necessarily from the fact, that it is not within
the jurisdiction of nny particular State, and Is within
the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The
right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of
the right to acquire territory. Whichever may be the
source whence the power is derived, the possession of
it is unquestioned. In execution of it. Congress in
lt"22, passed 'an act for the establishment of a terri
torial government in Florida."
The people will administer these laws through such
agents ns they may appoint, and they may, undoubt
edly, provide any law suitable to them nnd not con
flicting with the dominion of the United States.
The treaty by which Florida, was ceded, was con
cluded on the 2d February, 1810. But the Act for
the establishment of a Territorial Government did not
pass till 1622. In the samo time, however, an net
was passed under which General Jackson directed the
temporary government with the power of tho Captain
Genera! of Cuba.
The territorial legislature, established under the Act
of 1122, passed a Salvage Act, which it was attempt
ed to set nsideas inconsistent with the laws and Con
stitution (d the United States, and the Act establish
ing tho Territorial Government. The Supreme Court
decided that the Act was valid, and 0:1 the ground
"'i'h'tt aH Itiir which were in force ia E'ori la whVe a
Province oj Sp'iin, those excepted which were politi
cal in their character, which concerned the relations
between the people and their sovereign, remained in
! force until altered Inj the (ioccrnwnl of the Failed
States. No laws could then have been iu force, but
tlewe enacted by the Spanish Government."
The Oth Art. of the treaty with .Mexico stipulates
that the Mexicans in the "territories which remain
from the? future within the limi's of tho United States
as defined by the present treaty," who shall preserve
the characters of citizens of the Mexican Republic,
'shall In' incorporated into the Fnion of t'i" Fuittd
St, des, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judg
ed of by the Congress of the United States,) to the
enjoyment of aH the rights of citizens of the United
States, nccording to the principles of the Constitution,
and in the mean time shall be maintained and protec
ted in the free enjoyment of their liberty and proper
ty, and secured in theexere:se ol their religion with
out restriction.
This and the fifth article, which defines the boun
dary line between the United States nnd Mexico, are
the only provisions of the treaty which rel ite to the
future government and laws of California and New
Mexico.
It appears, therefore thnt the Mexican laws-, except
thoHO of a political character, which were in force
while California was a province of Mexico, will re
main in force, until altered bv the government of the
United States.
Who are lo administer these laws? Not the com
mander of the military district. Not on liicer op
pointed by the President. The people have the un
questionable right, iu the absence of legislation by
Congress, to appoint their magistrates, and even to
enact such laws as they wish, provided that they do
not conllict with the sovereignty of the United
States.
The Tuhlic L'.iihIs, A':iiii.
The question of making free the public lands to 11c
tunl settlers, is comparatively a new one in the politi
cal circles, yet so obviously just nnd humane is the
doctrine, that it has gained favor among the masses
of the people', nnd we look ahead to the triumph of
this doctrine at in distant day. The legislation of
this country has too long been directed to tl. upbuild
ing of capital nt the exp-'iisu of lauor, to the protec
tion of mtmeif instead of the natural rights if 711.
The great end ef government should be the protec
tion of man in the enjoyment of his natural rights,
and not in the conferring on the possessors of wealth,
of money, the power to wring from the ha rely to.lers
the production of their labor. It should he tlie object
of legislation to protect the weak against tlie oppres
sions eif the strong and the intrigues of the designing.
Among the first of man's natural rights, is 1 hut of
life ami the natural elements to sus'ain it, land, air,
water, and the free light of heaven; and each one of
these is as necessary to his subsistence ns another,
they are the natural, and the only natural nnd necessa
ry means of his subsistence, and they are all the free
gift of the Creator to the creatures he has made. De
prive a man of either of those natural e lements, and
ho becomes a pensioner upon tho bounty of his fellows
and a trespasser upon tin? enrth. N dl.ing can ndd
more to the prosperity of the country, nothing
can better serve to perpetuate e-ur free institutions
than to secure to tho people their natural right to a
portion ef land.
There is land enough upon this continent for a
home for every one of its inhabitants, but the enger
grasps of the avaricious speculators are fast fasten
ing upon it their ravenous clutches, nnd unlessa time
ly remedy is applied, it will he in this country ns it is
in the countries e f the Old World, that the land will
be monopolized by a few, while the mass ef the peo
ple will be mere tenantry, compelled to pay the land
lord for the God-given right to life and the means for
its support.
Tiuly, the public lands are tho properly eif the peo
ple, ond as they are so, nnd ns man has an inaliena
ble right to life nnd to the henven-hestowed mentis fir
its support, let Congress and State Legislatures detote
more of their time to securing and "prolcting" these
rights of the whole people, and less to granting to
enpitnl nnd associations of capitalists the power to
ride the people booted nnd spurred. The lands nre
the people's, nnd t heir's is the powe-r to put a check
upon their being the subject e.f ucnopoly, nnd will
they not do itl"
The arguments of our friend of the Sentinel can
not be successfully cemtroviTte'd. They ore; self-evident
Truths, which no sophistry enn overthrow. Our
National Congp'ss, instead of being the agents or
sen ants id' llie lVoph, nssumo to be principals nnd
masters; nnd entirely eiverlook the rights and inter
ests e;f the People. A sound Public Opinion, is the
corrective eif rill Evils ; nnd tho time is not far
distant when the Rights of the Masses must and shall
be respected. Pittsburgh Post.
Eor's Win: (Jone. This well known mass of
rock, situated on the Singapore? side of the western
cut m nre to New Harbor, railed by thu natives Hutu
Rclayir, nnd by Europeans Lot's Wife, recently dis
nppeured. This rock which wns composed of a mass
of very hard conglomerate, partially christ ilied, Iimh
been known to navigators in thoSirui'.s for many hun
dred year.", und, we believe, figures upon old charts
enslaved upwards of LM'O years ngo.
California.
Tn;: Goi.p Region. After a careful examination of
the accun's from the "Gold Region," by C d. Mason,
Mr. Larkiu, Mr. C i!tn and others, we ascribe three
fourths to exaggeration, produced by excitement.
Each of the narrators seems to have been dazzled, and
in no oiidition to consider s ber realities. Col. Mit-
son, wh . trav. lh d up the American Fork, a branch !
. 1' ,i , 11 . ' 1 , I
ol the Sacramento, saw gold em its banks, and on
r, . 1 b,, ... . . i-
those r the tributaries. But nil Ins statements of ,
(piantities rest i;jon the authority of others. VV..v j
person tld vie this, and that person told me th-d. j
Now as all these person, were oceu:ied in their own i
11:11. -.i.t 1 '
digging, anil highly excited, they gave themselves no
t " . .1 .
time lor inspecting the operations of each other; and
hence neither -f them was the best authority for the
success of his neighbors. And under such excitement,
we must take for gran'.ed that great stories would
readily start up from triues, n,,d grow rapidly in trav-
... J T, '. . ., , , -,,', 3 '
ellmg. hut taking the wnole e,t Col. Mason 3 est,.
mate, founded upon w hat be was told, we find an ng-
U1V9 Ol llJ VCII I tlH.ll JUIIVIU l i ,t" IM1IJ Hl. Jlj...:- j
gate produce will be emly $1,2 IS. 01)0. If the dig-1
.1 rt riP l.s aamIi lFi.iMllif 41M.b..tlT tint a.ri...
gers be 50,000, the annual produce will be only
$12,500.0' (). If then 4OO.000 men dig gold annua l'
lv f.r ten years, at this ratio of produce, the quantity
eibtained will be $1 ,2. i0, 000 ,000. And considering
that the pre.-ent circulating coin of the world is
$.",0t '0,000. 000, nnd that the consumption ef gold in
the arts, since the pr cess of magnetic gilding was
eliseovered, has mutually increased, we do not appre
hend any monetary disturbance, e)r enormous augment
ation of prices or depreciation of the previous metals,
even should 400,000 men dig gold in California during
every working day of the next ten years, at a produce
of SlO, by each. 1'ut nobody can dig gold in C ilifor
nia during the rainy season of three months; and
400.000 men will not be thus employed there; and
the diluvial deposits on these branches of the Sacra
mento will not endure for ten years. If the o!d en-
e'ures for five yeurs, und 40,000 men dig during 1210
days of each year, each gathering $10 daily, the
whole produce will be only $00.(10' 1,01 hi annually, or
$-150.000,000 iu five years. The coin now iu the
United Stntes amounts to $00,000,000, and the paper
to twice as much. If then the whole of this paper
be extinguished, nnd its place be supplied by gold,
the amount of "circulating medium" among us would
be precisely equal to the present. And if the remain
der f this gold, $2SS,000,000, should go abroad, ns
it would, we see nothing very alarming, to our own
country or the world.
The account of Mr. Colton, formerly a chaplain in
the Navy, now alcalde, or mayor of Monterey, a
town of a dozen rnwd huts, is amusing. At all times
a pleasing nnd fanciful writer, he has become moro
fanciful than ever, through his inoculation with the
"yellow fever." After describing tho gold region,
like Col. Mason, in glowing terms, he says that one
man employs fifty "wild Indians" to dig gold, who
are astonished at the nvidity of the "pale fares" for
this "yellow dirt," of which the "wild Indians"
aforesaid cannot comprehend the value!! That is
enough, Mr. Colton ! Itstamps all the rest ! "Wild"
Indians in California ! And ignorant eif gold! Cali
fornia has b(?cn governed by the Spaniards for three
hundred years, who have partially civilized the In
dians in all their colonies. r or two centuries at
least, these wild" Indians of Calif irnia have lived
bv pasturage and agriculture, and not bv hunting;
and ever since the region has been known i:i Aineri
can trade, hidts, from cattle raised and owned by
men, under Spanish laws, have been its staple com
modity. And if .Mr. Colton will strny beyond Cali
fornia, and find an Indian ;ii the whole North Aincr-
scan continent, wi'd or fame, ignorant of gold, and
astonished at the avidity of the "pale faces" for
"yellow dirt," he will find something that does i.ot
exist. This is a little too strong. Make your hum
bugs credible, Messrs. Californians ! Do not tax cre
dulity too heavily.
Another account tells us that, as a party were
travelling up the valley of the Sacramento, and stop
ped beside a stream to kindle a fire to cook their
breakfast, one of them dipped a tin cup full of sand
from the stream, washed it and found nt the bottom
Fcveral lumps of gold, of considerable size. And this
is in a region which these keen gold hunters, the
Spaniards, have occupied for three hundred years,
without discovering these riches! We repeat our
belief, that, tips gold region will prove to be merely
the valley of the American Fork, and of its blanches,
Feather River and others, that all this gold has been
washed from some mine in the mountains, that this
deposit will soon be exhausted, nnd that working of
the granite ridge will he expensive.
Thcn'what means all this exaggeration ? First, it
means that the discovery ef diluvial gold, confined
to a sinall region, has intoxicated the whole popula
tion of California, ns a similar discovery intoxicated
the North Carolinians nbout twenty ye-ars ago. Se
condly, it means that extensive grantees of land in
California want settlers, nnd know that a gold fever
will bring them there by tens of thousands. And
when they arrive, they will find that digging fir
gold, while paying ten dollar for a shirt, and fiftv
dollars for a barrel of flour, is unprofitable. Having
crowded into the gold region, and not finding enough
for all, thi'y will quarrel and fight ; and we shall
soon receive deplorable acceumts. The last accounts
tell us that some of the squatters already begin to talk
ed choaUng the Mormons, those standing objects of
lawless and cruel aggression, out of tho gold which
they have already gathered. Rut the climate and soil
are good, the country has the elements of prosperity,
nod will flourish after the "yellow fever" subsides.
Pa. Ledger.
Concessional Pi.L'mhik. The vote in the House
of Representatives, granting to each new member ef
this Congre-ss, a library of books for his envn private
use and benefit, deserves especial attention and cen
sure. Among the additions to the list eif books for
this session, is the whole edition of the laws of fhe
United States, as published by Little it Rrown, of
Roston, in seven royal octavo volumes, at a cost ef
$23 per set. The total cost to the treasury ef the
liooks this day voted to each new member, is only
$022 5-1, and not $10l'0, as I had supposed. The
number ed'new membe rs is one hundred and nineteen.
and the sum verted in their pockets is $71,082 20.
Rut each of the remaining one hundred and eleven,
receive the seven vedutnes eif statistics, and sundry
other works under the description of" all other books
furnished to the members of the Senate last year."
Suppose these either works, which se?em to be " too nu
merous too mention," cost no more than $72 a set,
this sum added to the odd $23 for the laws, will make
up the even hundred for each member. This multi
plied by one hundred and eleven, will give the aggre
gate of $11,100, nnd present a tidal fur book plunder
by the members of the House of Representative's for
this year, tf $,lb2 20. Does this transaction de
serve any either niime than nn net of shnme-ful ro!
bery 1 Rut I give you only the means of approxima
ting the result. This immense sum would by no means
pay the bill. The plunder must be packed carefully
lip, in boxes pre pared with great strength and nont.
ness, itud these boxes must be marke'd and bhippedolT
to the fortunate man's residence. The expense of all
this must be defrayed, not out of the member' pocket,
but out of tlie public treasury. Upon the w inde, I
know tif no either abuse, tinder this government, so
utterly barefaced and indefensible, as this annual
stealing eif the books. Tho name of every man w ho
votes for it, or who takes advnntnge of the wrong by
receiving tho books, should be exposed in letters of
scarlet before the people tif his district. X. V. Pott'
Rr.V. ANtntF.U' RuoAhUs, a distinguished divine of
Virginia, died at Newtown, Va.,on the 1st. iti.-t. He
was remarkable for his edoquenco, nnd for being total
ly destitute of ambition, lie refused the elegrees eif
A. M., and D. D., which were conferred upon him
by the several colleges. Among his admirer were
Chief Justice lUurshall and many of his famous con
temporaries. A lump of gold was found in North Carolina, some
vears ig , that was worth $-0,000. A Ne.v Volk
company bought the land w here it was found at a
bioh t.ri.e. Tbc v soent forty thousand ddlirs in
. .
sinking; a rhnlt, nnd never obtained but three penny
weights e.f gold. The place was abandoned, and has
ncvci been worked un-e.
.
t?ATinr.ic Ihsiiois. We hc! i; stnted in the St.
I.ouia New hra, that the Rev. M. Vandevehh', lae
l'rivmeial of the Society of J emu, iu Missouri, hat
been nppointed llishop of Chicago, and the Very Rev.
de St. I'ulais, (ftdministrator ol the Dioces?,) ih!iop
d Viucenncs.
gregatc not very nstonisfiing. rour thousand men ann ay tiiey w bei -fade, but i.-ie uf Hm,- coulJ not bc-Bre"en"ao-ed
in di'gin", nnd obtained sVdl U 00 or hi ve H.n t,e mu-i ,!i.-. Mir ai o d.ar tu them, they
$00,100 daily. Assuming? 10,000 as the daily aver- J:,"UK!'; !; "' '"v xl'm't ,h VVC , f
v ,J . . . ('"J Hot wih hei lt bieath, Sie told ll rm, lo! b. lean on
age. we fir. d only $10 d uly lor each man. If tUn ea.u.iy f,,end, but nun ... u,e e mi.i,.otcit a...l denial
4000 men dig incessantly during the JH2 working , Fiifuü. Ci ueaii. a hke the linking ot an infant lo it
CO.U 31 UM i : AT I o s.
For tie InJian i t:tate 8?ntintl.
Tribute ( fhe .lleiiioiy
Of Mrs. J- ei'jiim: J. C ;sk, ic 'to depart' dihis life o:i
Wrdnt dnj mm niitg, I)C. Ü7. 11.
It i fearful in ce a humin m amMi-J sullenly, arnj
trudle, taithd an I um.i;icd in th m,. . f dejih. 1'ut
tu ee a Chnstiau fade awav foitneaith !ovvly i Calmly,
, , , , . ,, , ,'! . ,
ai a S ,lJe" cl 'u,t " tlie cvrnititr. sVy, lb .uh oleum, 11
Il0, $lk For a the tfauty ..f pnh depru m.t by lint, inj
ray bv iav, a h ly, hcav.ntv beauty tA f place a
1'ifht fitb i in tlie eye, müe ef iei aij n on the li: ,
toi.e t)f n ace and h pe in l!.e low v ice tint i se terfar
tli;i the li ijrti'isl iMi:icc, llie vi t mile. the m tt rnuncal
t f . . -n ....:,,, r ti
note id ttttirr 04 1 I lie ut ji ct id tin n iiie.ua i unir
beautiful, and the id d ..f m.n ua.it. si. i,a tWyii.i.lg
ti fill tue present wi h hariai , ul the fu'.iie wtia hope,
Hut in ihr caily sunnier f the year iu the ;..inn of he r
daJr"' he wa anc-t-1 I y disease. Slowly it t.,le u n
!,e; rJ ,iralr 'V' ?h V'' TV JTo ! '
ullnir., whufi was t te tier lud of death; ct he i.eter
mu,mUltrj St,e formed . b. foei bendf ,. n it t
cmde il.c auxi m him sorrow 0 fin iul aim;.d he?r. Dy
sleep; nol a ti uüle, ot a .oan, n -l a ih. It wa a
passMiig from ca:t!i to Heaven, a vvct and gcu'.le as Ihe
pome UP "f ii.e. 1. Pc- Oir.iOjit. the tue z. Ie air
Hi r only c liii l a babe on u h te denplc.J cbt ek ihe hii
pitAvf J t mother's Wi- f . nii.e months, died a few weeks
btfoie her. I'eiba; be pu-ad the ofi wm i.f a chtrob
over ber in those UM h oui, and fanned away pun from tier
pill w,aiid fear from lu r tieatt. They are re-umted now in a
holier, f.zppier hou-c. May they be ihe Kiaidi4ii angels of
tlioc Ii1, survive lo m imi ! Aid rtiay (lo.l ivc iu every
hrait that blecos t ci eath thi ttioke, that patient and u:
trititroui iog faith, which tTUuC her list bents o Uvtly 10 the
ight, and tj picci iu? 111 .i. rn tnory !
l"m; Soil .llccitiii;;-- Blurtholoinew Co.
At a meeting (f (lie Ficp Soil voti isof lUiihoIomcw coun
ty, Ik bl at C lim.bu. on S .tuiday, the 3Jih ult., Iluh Tet
iy, Kj , w a p liutcJ C'hau niau , and Dr. May, cIiomu Sec
Ktiry. The f.illowi. u-o!uMin w ie adopted :
Jifg'j'ret, I Int the vtfi of is iiiliiiomew county, fivora-
j ble t) FiCt' Soil j,rii ri !e, be eipnste-J to med in County
C ei.tien, at Colombo. "ll Sa(uidy, the 23d int., Ii ap
point dt li ates to Ihe C oavt nti hi to be lie! 1 at Itutanapolis,
on the lGiti hot , foi the no mnution - f Mate oUVeis.
itetolxet. That believu jj us we I , in Ihe itiT'it arid policy
of the piiuciples i f the Free S. it paity, we aie ur.wi itm u
turp nt any candidate fr a political (dlice, who is uvi known
and ph-dd dvot-ate f it oe piinriples.
Hi sol ted, 1 hat we ate willing to act and co-operste for
success, with all tho-c who will ht.ct!y aid im, and whose
practice and puccpU aice with u. Hut to auie in f
ihee fsrls, we w.tilj piefer something m.ie than vromtset
for Ihr future, and especially, tun such ptomies t.iiy seem
to risuie the success of party, i r of private ambition.
I'tSoiveJ, That alavciy i an c il every whtie. and there
fjie we can nevei countenance its exteiiMon. That we will
ajfiee to no cj;npn mie line, tut exclude it, if uc can, from
all the Teiiitüiies i f the coiintiy, anj fro'n all the States
l.c-teafter t be admitted into the Union, and we cannot sup
put aar man fT office, win will not in all lawful ways, la
bor for tins en I
Jlt solved, That an omiisiun t legislate upon the sutjeel by
Cm. nies, becaase the tcr:itory it iww free, is a Uanetou
policy, and may pennit initious rteult; and those who ad
vorate this cooisc, ca; not be Hue fiuti's of fired. m. and
aie not entitled to oar confidence k Kite Soil men. That
honerty and candor, as well 1 truth and safety, demand uf
us to speak, anl tu legislate w-v, fulty and decisively iu fa
vor f Kiec Teintoiies evciy where, and Fice States to be
foirned em of them.
Jiesolved, That these ptoeeedini be f orwaidcd to the In
dianapolis papcis, weh a request that tbey will publish tin m.
IILT.II Ti:iU;Y, Chairman.
D. May, Sec'y.
C:tsS 2 ei u nty.
A meeting of the IVmnci a? of Cats County, was held in
LeansiHii t, en Saturday. Occ 23. W. Z. Soj1;tf was called
to li e Chair, and M. II. Know! in, appointed S.creiaiy.
The object f Ihe met -sit the appointment of delei'cs
to the State Convention havei: been stated, a commiHec
was appointed to ri p nt the nanus ef delegates f t the differ
ent town:.ips.
On motion, Messi. (Jiovc. Halt, aod Hiin, wre up
pointed lo lepoil icsol'itioiH, which wt-ie amended and
adopted at follows :
Jiesulvrd, Ttiat we have undiminished confidence in tlie
coirectucss of ear ( ulitical j iincip.es, a laid down in the
Balti noic pta f :m, am! Out tn their C itithni ji.ee alone, cau
our countiy find peimanvut piiisj.eiity, and op n those prin
ciples alui.e dj we iely bt succcx.
ItttdvcJ, That in t he defeat t f oui patty at the täte can
vas, we stv no caose f t d.cmn:.. rnent ; be evil will wok
its Dwn ruic at d the ie ilt w ill he eie h t a iiturn to thti
true principle of our fedeiate uov ei ntnei.t, viz: rion-intei-ferei.ee
with the tu'ht and ui!u f the peoj le of the State
and Teriitoiies so far as their local laws an I institutions ate
in tpuslion, and equal nhi and cal law, lo all pits of
our happy and rapidly cxtendiiig irpuMic.
Resulted, Thai wc fio.t cuidialty appiove and et. dots
P.esiderit Polk's sound and t teminli We view, S to tho
faul it suits to ii'ii count i y, which nut t i mc from a tevi-
val of tbe tn. called Ainrrtc.ii Sjsietii with tW i'a odi
ous deti.ls, co..fcriit' special puvi'ee- on thcric, i-f which
the mviy arc deprived, ami iiidir ct taxes wiuiii from the
hand of la'or, to bloil with wraOh 'lie fa i ond rUse.
lltmlved, 'Ihm weicitt Ok existei le f a paity hacd
on a H'ctu'tial qucsti-ui, and d pi cate Ihe c iiie -f such men
a are endeavoring to Mir up ani'i.o.ity and .'.life between
ditrient pott ions if emr icpubor.
UesolvtJ, That we ate in fior of a gradual tcfuin from
th evil of the piper curiency afT ided by ibe h.r.kt, lo tt.c
cunenry guamit e l by our ghi ions Ceuntitu'i n ; and ate
decidedly f the opinion that any attempt to rt-cluiter a Hank
of the United Mate, or ic-emct the tanff tf '42, will te
aifut the test inttreMi uf the people.
The committee to rep -tt the name i f delegates to the Stat
Con ventioti, submitted Oie following, which wcic Bgietd to :
llootie John lleckley, U t't Mch. hVy.
Harrison M I i.ckei, Sjiu'I Ytl..u.
lnlhlthtm pivi I L'.i u!, J tines Ibichanin.
Adamt Dato I tV.biwn. Mmti Al tiedje.
Clay Ashfotd Caitei, NOnn Julian.
Aofcf Kli Coltiei. ( Wh Meim.
JrJJ'er$"ti Jo' n Kithi,.l hu U'i .on.
film mi K W Itu-h. Ia v iJ Miih-r.
Clinton John Shiny, 1) McN'.- l.
U'uthirigtoii Jam. Came) , A li Kii caHjii.
7'iptun Noah Vandever, Mutes Hauet.
DcrrCieek W 21 Pa'teiMt., ltut louglit.
J.irkian 0 Kemp, fill llowsid.
y.el If Kcifx.jder, I h Keyts, Jee Kiloe, Peter
Punkte, W II Juhnswii, C, K ACams, W 7. stuait. S A Hall,
J V. Hones, N (J Sco.t.C Taber, A M Hims, Jolm Iluim,
J M Keep.
tin motion tdil. N. Titrh, it was
Jletolved, That each deiette be autb 'iind to appoint a
substitute, should tie be uoab'.e lo attend,
(in moil in, it was
lUt dud. That the proceeding uf this meetinc be p.tb
lidud in Ihe lcm cratic Pharos, and the Indiana Sirte Sen
tinel be requeued t Copy.
W. Z STUART, Chn.
M. II. Kwuwltcn, Sec'y.
It is proposed in Snith Carolina to erect a monu
ment in memory of the dead of the l'almetto Regi
ment. Its bnso w ill be of Hough natural rtn-k of pyr-
ninidical rhape, My feet t-quire at the base, thirty
five feet high, hi this block will be formed a cham
ber wherein will be erected three tombs, one of w hich
will contain the remains of Col. 1'ut 1 r. another those
of Id. Col. Dickinson, nnd the third those of the com
missioned tdlicers killed iu Mexico, (hi two Kides eif
the chamber will be runted niches wherein will Im
pla:e'd the remains of the non-commissioned otlicer
nnd private, and the Regimental and Company Hags
ure to be bung upon the walls. Suitab'e inscriptions
are to be placed upon the doors, etc. L'pon the pyra
mids is to be placed a funeral urn of great size, sur
mounted by an lvtgle, and tbe entire height of tho
monument will be seventy fet. At the base of tho
urn lire to be deposited several emblematic devices.
Gerrit Smith' Colored Settlement in Florence, New
Ve:rk, is now in full pn-gre-sa. A building to bold 70
families w ill be finished I y the first of January. Tho
property has plenty f writer hwt. nnd grift and
saw-miils have been piojected. Mr. Smith has given
a number of farm to enterprising co..re-d persons,
and the Florence Assoziation intend to purchase nev
eral hundred acres mound them. Iu the settlement,
the village? lots nre selling for thrze dollars per lot,
the lots contain a quarter e f an acre each which will
enabk each person to have thirty acres, with the ad
vantage d the timber. Messrs Fillmore. Fish Morgan,
Spencer, and other prominent mzn of New Vork have
contributed to promote the object.
The cause t)'' the ntVray in winch Dr. l'dward Skill
mill was killed at lUton" Rogue by Dr Dyrd, appears
to have been the seduction by M. e.f a female of the
fjmily of S. S. v.;is the attacking parly, and, after
he was moitaliv wou ided himself, was in the act f
stubbing ltvrd wben sonn person pulled htm citl".
P.yrd e scaped to Mobile. Skillunii wa u young man,
and Ihe prop of I. is family, rcsidmi; in Ouehita.
'Tun Hack- Tiuck." Tin National Intelligencer
..1- .i
nv a eeiitlenom, w hotn Ihe dazzling pronpevi early
j induced In Mutt lor lip? gold digging, by the Chagrin
toule, hns just returned, after getting as far a
Panama, finding there two thousand persons entit'ed
to precedence in the ves-els from thence; aijJ it in
t.0,pUt,.u t.rü nre -ix thousand there now togcr for
ft cjalt.u lt) Sin pT!lliet .
; The soil in Kiighn d. whicit n century ngo win
ow ned by three hundred thousand peinr., is at tin
time owned by '; ty-ln W'riJ indivi mi..