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S3n Mail.
LATER FROM MEXIUO,
Tug Courr or INQuiRy,
Avcusta, April 3.
Tre Overland Express has arcived, with New
Orleans papers of the 20th ult, and an extra
Picayune, issued on that day, containing dates
from Vera Cruz to the 25th ult,, and from the
Capital to the 20th.
A renewal of the difliculties between Gene.
rals Scott and Worth had taken place, Mr.
Trist had been retained at the Capital a 5 a wit
ness ngainst General Scotty but w,ll leave for
the United States when tbe Court of Inquiry
adjourns.
Gen. Twiggs onud a number of other oflicers
have arnved at New Orleans.
Col. Herry Wilson has succeeded General
Twiggs as Governor of Vera Cruz.
No more supplics than 18 neccssary are to be
sent to the interior, in view of the nnmediate
withdrawal of the trocps.
The Court of Inquiry commenced its sessions
at the palace, on the 16th. The next day, af
ter a short private session, the Court announced
that it would proceed with its deliberations
General Scoul ashed what persons were azcus.
ed, and what parties and whi t subjects were to
be investigated. The order 1r the assembling
the Court was then read ; it ro quires the invees
tigation of the charges preferred by Geu. Scott
against General Pilow and Duncan, also the
complaints of Gen Worth against Gen. Scoll,
and designate the time and place of wmeeting,
and the other preliminraries.
General Scottsuid that he desired that allthe
parties interested should be present, particularly
General Duncan, as his remarks would coneern
Lim. He also inquired whether any other per.
sons were embraced in the order as accused
parties. The Court,after deliberating privately
for half an hour, replied that no other parties
were accused. General Scott made a short
speech, in whick he spoke feelingly of his hav
ing been converted into a prisoner at large,while
at a digtance from his country, struck down from
* tus high command, and found hiweelt placed as
chief eriminal, and the accused bpcowe the ac-
cusers.
The President said that the remarks must not
infringe the rules of the order eonvening the
Court. General Scott then resumed, and
on the conclusion of lus speech the Court ad
journed.
The next day the President Judge expressed
his readine & to investigale the charges of Gen.
Worth. General Scott said he was ready to
listen to whatever charges had been made
against hun.
The Judge then read a letter from General
Worth,stating that for the welfare of the service,
he wished to withdraw the accusation made 1n
his appeal against Gen, Scout,
After this had been read, the doors were clos
ed, and when re opened the Judge anncunced
the determination to suspend proceedings.
General Scott then refuested the Court to
procectl in the case of General Duncan.—
Therevpon the Court organized for the investi
gation of thiscase. General Scott insisted upon
the reading of the documents telative 1 the
charge agamst Gen. Duncan. This the Court
refused.
General Pillow expressed the determination
to vindicate huneelt it the Court ordered the
charges pretered by Gen. Scott for trial.
The next day it was decided to take up the
accusations preferred agamst General Duncan
by Genersl Seott, Two charges were embraced
in the accusation. ‘The first was a violation of
the Army Regulations, which proinbited the
publication of ietters in relation towhitary opera
tons, and the second was in conseqnences of
some focts asserted by Duncan in letters written
by him and his answers to the charges.
Gen. Scott then withdrew his accusations
against Duncan.
Gen. Pillow stated that he would repiy to the
accusations of Gen. Scott,
From the New York Courier & Enquirer,
From rance. " ;
The packet ~l-.}p New York, Capt, LlK‘..(‘!. nrrv.
ed this morung from Havre, having sailed frpiy
that port on the b of March, ‘The dates she
brings ore of course no later than those we lLad
previously received, and there 1s no intelligence
of imporiance 1n the pugeu which hus not been
received and publishied by former arrivales,
We are indebted to the Caprain for papers
T'he packet has made aremarkable good pussage.
M. Barlees hasbeen elected colonel of the Islh
legion: the ceremouy of congratulation was very
enthusiastie, and the inseniption of volunteers
that day was 730 instead of 150 as usual ‘
We cut the folowing paraggaphs from Galig
noni:
“I'wo days ago,” says the Presse, ‘“ n master
locksmith, to whom his workmen declared they
would only labor nine hours, und wou!l have a
franc adduional for the chorter day, replied, with
the greatest sang froid, ‘l'his suits mwe as much
ns it does you s from this day I will close my shop
sgainbecome a Journeyman, and we will go and
seek work together,” An hour alter the work
men had restimed their work.”
It is vot generally known that several English
took part ia the struggle of February 24ih,—
Amongst the vicims buried on Saturday, was
Geo, Good, a young LEuglish journcyman prin
ter, who was shot through the breast n the at
tack on the Chateau d'Ean post, Paluis Royal,
while fighting with the people. Mr. Perey St
Jobu, aud another Lnglishman, name unknown,
witnossed has full
Great ehanges have beew wade at the Luxem.
bonrg Palace. The private garden hitherio up
proprinted to the grand refrendary 1s open, with
all the rest of the gurden, to the publie. The
glazed pussage whieh led to the residence of the
president of the palice, and which was used as a
conservatory, is beng removed. M. Dupont
[de "Eure] is esiablished o the hotel of the
late chancellor, and over the principal entrance
iseribed “ Hotel de President du Gouvernement
Provisoire de la Republigue,”
We find the tollowing wn the Univers :=—%T'wo
days back, as the Arciibishop of Puarig was re
turning Lo the archiepiscopal palace, he found
some nutional guards at the gate. * What can |
do for you gentlemen 7' e asked. ¢We have
here,’ said one of them, ¢ the tirst flag given to
the national guard mobile, and we Lave come o
ask you to give it your bencdwtion ' The Arch
bishop replied: * With all my heart, my good
friends. | bless your colors and yourselves.’
The nationel guards then withdrew.’
Lady Beresford and suite left Parie yesterday
for Boulogne.
Ao address of adhesion and congratulation
hias Leen received by the lrovisional Govern
quent {rom the French residents at Bruesels.
Yrowa e St. Louis Union, March 28,
FROM SANTA FE.
A genleman, who left Santa Fe abeut the
25th 0! Pebraary, arrived here on Sunday. He
Lring news of a battle between Col. Rall's regi.
ment, stutioned at £l Paso, (sbout 800 wen,)and
4,000 Mecicans. The Awmerican forces were de
teated, suffering a luss of 60 to 80 men, and Col.
Ra'ls was retreating before the Mexicans. On
the reception of the news at Santa Fe, Gen.
Price immediately ordered all bis di-Pflublo firce
10 warch to the wid of Col Rulls, The express,
woith the mail, left Sauta Fe three days before
the Searer of this news, waus overtuken by him,
and pasved. :
We hay @ olso received a Santa e Republican,
dated Febrioary 12, from which we obtain the
fullowing news == :
“Nanta Fe was ‘0 greatexcitement, It was re.
ported that Urrea we ® @dvancing upon Ll Paso
wiih an arwy of from L"N!U to 10,000 men by rap
i warehes, Gen Price , minediately made pre
parations for warching wi th several bodies of
troops 10 the reliel of ihe placy'
“Mr ). Abel wrrived at Sauta f'e on the 11th
from LI Poso, and brought word tho't the troops
below were wll on a forced wareh fron, ¥ Paso.
nid that there was u strong prospect of a Jight at
tiat place. Large bodies of Mexicans wers re
ported to be approaching. Col. Ralls was forti
fying the town,
“Gen Prize ond stafl left on the Bth, 1o will
have, on arriving ot El Paso sbout 1500 men un
dJer lus command,'’
Mclancholy Casualty. =A despatch from Pliilg.
celphin, dated on Mondcay, #tates that Mr, .l«m-ph
Hoichards, u vivegar manofacturer, wasawaken.
ed that morning by groans, which appearcd to
procend from his vat; be wnmadiately jumped
up, and went into his factory, and found thet o
poegro had fallen yn the vat. In his eudeavors to
ot bhim ont. Mr. Ricliirde wae sullocated with
the gns. The negro and Richards boih pc.'iolud.
#isconsin.~The new consiiunon has been a-
Aopied by u large wmagority, A legislatare will be
wlected i Juve, upon which will deyolve the
Fhwice of Iwo United Staies scnators.,
THIRTIETII CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION,
Moxoay, April 3,
SENATE. ~A messago was received from the
President communicating a despatch from Mr.
Rush, U, 8. Munisterat France, givingan aceonnt
of the revolution there, and the measures adopt.
ed for the estublishment of a republie, the mes.
sage approving the conduct of Mr. Rush in
promptly recognizing the provisional govern
’ ment. It was referred to the Commitiee on
Foreign Relations, and ordered to ve printed,
Mr. Allen moved to take up his resolutions
congratulatory 1o the Prench nation on the estab
lishment of a republic. A debate ensuned in
which Messrs. Crittenden, Allen, Baghby, Dicken
son and others participated, in the yeus and nayas
being taken, the motion was negatived—yeas 21,
nays 22,
The bill 1o relieve the Jndges of the Supreme
Court from eirenit duties, being the order of the
day, was taken up, after a long debate, the bill
was read and then laid uside.
The Seunate. after some time spent in Exceu
tive Session, adjourned,
Hovse.=The resolation sympaihising with the
cause of republicanism with France were taken
up. Sundey swoendments were offered. A wmo
ton to lay the subjeet on the table was made and
rejected, The question was discussed by several
members, and the debate elicited considercble
heat, especially when sluvery was alladed 10, it
continned to a late honr, when Mr. Ashiman ob
tained the tloor for to morrow, and on motion
the House adjourned.
Tursoay, April 4.
SENATE.~A petition was presented from the
College of Pharmacy in Maryland praying for
such lezislation as will prevent the importation
of adulierated drugs and medicines, was relerred
1o the Comnnttee on Commerce.
A petition was presented for the purchase of
the Mount Vernon estute, which was referred to
the Commitice on Military Affairs.
A bill i relaton to trade and interconrse a
mong various ludian tribes inhabiting Texas was
read twice and relerred to the Comuittee on In
dian AtTars.,
A message from the Honse, announced the
death of Mr. Black, of 8. C., and of the proceed
imgs thercon, whereupon Mr. Butler rose and
pronounced an enlogy on the deceased, und the
customaiy resolntions of mourning were passed.
The Senate adjourned.
Hovse —Mr, Sims of 8. C., announced the
death of Mr. Bluck, and pronounced a brief and
eloguent eulogy on the oceasion, after which the
House passed the usual resolutions of condoleuce
and wourning, aud then adjourned.
WenREsSDAY, Apt'{l b.
Sexare--After assembling the Senate adjourn
ed to the Hoeuse of Representatives to uuite with
that body i thewr public testimonials of respect
to the memory of Hon. James Black, of 8. C.
deceased,
Houvse.—=The galleries were filled at an early
hour; and on the tloor were the President of the
U S, the heads of Departments, representatives
of foreign nations, oflicers of the ariny end navy,
judges of the Court, and mayor and municipali
ty of Washington. A prayer was offered by Rev,
Mr. Gurley, Chaplain, and then he preached a
disconrse from the Gospel of St. John, 11 Ch.
23 ve. “Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shail
rise again.” When the preacher fimshod hns ser
mon a procession was formed which proceeded
to the Congregationul bucl ground where the
solemn rites of committing the deceased to tho
ground were performed,
A Horrible Affuir.~The steamer Magnolia,
which arrived last night, reports the following
hornible cirenmstance, which occorred npon that
boat on her last upward trip: When nearing
Natchez, on Wednesday night, the barber of the
boat, whose name is Briscoe, violated the person
of a Gernman enngrant girl, and then, in order to
conceal his erime, threw her overboard. Both
acts were seen by a lady in the cabin, who un
fortunately, gave the alurmtoo late. "I'he sconn
drel was nnmediately arrested, and lodged in jul
at Natchez —N, O, Com. Bul., March 27.
Fire and Loss of Life.~The dwelling-house, oe
cupied by Mr. Franklin Gallup, in Poquaunoe
(Gaston, Coun,) was destroyed by fire on Friday
niu_-:,'” and one of the cluldren o 1 M.r. (j.Ul.'lll). a
httle girl about six years old, perishew 0 the
flames. Another chiid, was also so badly burned
that it was not expected to gurvive, The other
members of the family escaped by jumping from
the wpper story, after throwing out beds.
A Good Move —Mr. Ynlee, from tl.e commit:
tee on paval affuirs in the U. 8. Senate, has re
rurlvd a lill to put upon a retired list, with for.
ough pay, all oflicers in the Navy, who, on ex
amiation before a Board of Naval Captaine ap
pointed for the purpose, shall be found no lon
ger competent to periorm properly the duties of
their stations.
Powder Ml Frplosion.—~"The Powder Mill of
Luflin and Smith, in tue towa of Saugerties, Uls.
ter County, was blown up, on Monday last. One
man, John Frederick, was instantly killed, and
another so scverely injured that it is extremely
donbtful whether he recovers. There were a
bout GOO pounds of powder in the mill, Loss of
property about $4OO.
A Propheey —"The New Oileans Evening Na
tional says—Within ninety days afier the final
ratification of the I'reaty of Peace between the
United States of the North and the Republic of
Mexico, the Mexican Departments of New Leon
Tamanlipas, and Coabwila, will revolt and de
clare themselves fiee and wmdependent of the
Government of Mexico. Gen. Mirabean B.
Lamar, of Texas, will be the first President of
the New Republic of New Leon.”
The Opinion of Louis Plilippe of the Success of
the Republic.—"Tl'he Puris Presse gives the tollow
ing us an extract from a Havre letter:—-M, R
=, one ol my friends, was present at the em
barkation of the ex king in a fishing boat on
Thursday last. When on the point of quitting
the Freuch soil, and Lowis Philippe tarned to
wards R and smd, “Join ths republie frank
ly and sincerely, for I carry with me the French
monarchy, and I shall descend with it to the tomb.
I huve been the last king of Frauce. Adieu.’"”
Mr. Hotchkiss, the gentleman who was so
nearly murdered at Brooklyo, N Y., has recover
ed his bodily health and is slowly regaining his
mental faculties. He seems 10 have forgotten
every thing he learned daring his life, and has to
be tanght to speak and learn his letters as if he
were a child. "T'he sound of his own voice, n
learning to articulate a new word, amuses him
exceedingly.
It has cost the Massachusetts railroad corpora
tions a thonsand dollars a picee to kill 155 per
sons, and “large additional sums for medical at
tendance, for funcral expenses, continuance of
wages, &c " for 195 persons more or less maim
ed or mangled.— Boston Post.
New Factin Tdlegraphing —Last Monday, duar
ing the rain, the ‘Vroy and Montreal line worked
successfully from Troy to Burlington, a distance
ol 156 miles, with a battery of ten cups, in which
epring water was eubstituted for Salphuric acid ;
and the battery had been at work with the water
for four or five days previous,
The National lateiligencer, and oune or two
other whig papers, sympaihise with tie hesiation
of U 3. #enators to pass a resolution of sympa.
thy with the French republic! 1t 1s suggested
that the abolition of slavery by the new republic
is one cause of coolness.— Boston Post.
A law exempting a homestead from sale on ex
ecution has pas<ed the Michigan sentate, 12 10 4,
and the house 33 to 19, The exemption applies
to an amount not exceeding forty acres df land,
with a house and appurtenances, or one lot ol
land in a recorded town plot, village or city.
\We learn from the Lynchburg Virginian that
Capt. John \Warwick, of Ambherst county, Va.,
who died a lew days since, manumitied by his will
all his servants, numbering between 70 and 80
He has ade ample provision for their removal,
outfit and settlement in one of the Western
States.
Walter Evans, sexton of the Episcopal charch
at Madison, Wisconain, went to bed in good
ponlih on Friday night, and was found dead the
next morning.
Forrest played Hamletin New Orleans, March
24, and toown final leave of the andmnce in a
speech annonne'og that he was going to tll the
suil. Ile was quite OVErconie by lus feelings,
A min has been arres 2 in Rochester, N. Y,
who esnlesscs that he 1s ons 0'..""! murderers of
Dr Goss, who mysiericusly o.,%appeared from
Seneca county about a year ago,
Daniel Telio, an imtemperate Dalian, a glizier
and house punter, committed suicide 1y New
York, by cutting his throat with a razor.
Free Port.<<T'ie Queen of Spain has mtmv
ed the order making Sagua la Grande, Cuba, @
port of eniry on tie sawe lvoung us Cardenas,
Republican £erald.
FPFROVIDENCE,
Saturday, April 8, 1848,
THE STATE ELECTION.
It may be deemed proper 1o remind the world
that our anunal elcetion of State oflicers took
place on Wednesday last. It was a very stll and
peaceable performance, there having been ne at
tempt to get up an excitement on the occasion,
We did not expect to carry the State. We did
not hope to defeat even a single officer named
on the Algerine ticket. We knew that our
friencs were sound asleep in many of the towns ;
and that they would not consent to be waked up
t!l some month or two before the Presidential
election. So we counted upon a very genersl
defeat—a small vote on both sides—a particular
ly and unusually small one on our side. Weare
very litile disappointed in the result,
But our friends did somewhat better than we
had anticipated. In the towns where there was
a fair chance of success, they railied nobly. In
Cranston they drove the enemy to the wall—and
through it,~=and then put the bars up. We did
not expect half #o glorious a victory in that town,
tho' we did expect to gain two Representatives
and a Senator, by way of amusement for our old
friend Thurber and his co-workers, “I'hey have
done something better than give us a bare wa-
Jority, They have *‘astonished their best friends."”
Possibly they have astonished themselves,
Other towns have done well, Cumßeriasp
und Nowiu Provibesce send us seme staunch
Senators and Repreresentatives—worth their
weight in Democracy, every man of them.—
Scirvate sends two good Democratic Reprere
sentatives in place of two whigs. Easr Grees-
WICH gives us a gain of one; and we gain a
Repreresentative and Senator in Fxeren—Max-
INg A GAIN O EIGHT MEMBERS IN ALL.
The popular vote is very emall, us the returns
show. Naturally enough it grows smaller every
year. It cannot and will not keep pace with the
increase of the population, under this outrageous
ly unjust Constitution ; a Constitution made on
purpose to drive voters from the poils und out of
existence, Dot the fact that it s particularly
small just now, is not wholly attributable to a
small registry list. Thousands of good Dewo
erats who did not think it worth their time to
\vuue at this election, will ha early at the polls
when the presidential strugsle is to be decided.
! It was more a lack of excitement or interest, than
alack of qualified votera, that drove us so far in
to the back gronnd last Wednesday.,
On the whole, we look upon the result of the
celeetion as highly encouraging. In every town
i where there was an excitement or any cifort, we
' have jostied the enemy—in geveral cases have
gone so far as to upset him. We disappointed
him most wofully in Smithficld, where he expeet.
ed a complete victory, and where every possi
ble effort, fair and untair, was made to obtain it.
Our friends in that town deserve much more
praise than our humble pen can offer thew, for
their noble conduet. Every man of them is a he:
ro, and oaght to have a victory brought to his door
every year for ten years to come. We fancy our
silk gloved Algerines will not soon again boast
Leforehand that they are going to outfight or out.
gonernl #0 nohls a band of Democrats as march
ed to the rescue of Swmithfield on the day of (his
election.
It was langhable to witness how the stillness
and sleepiness of our frtends in this city seemed
to wako up our opponents on election day.—
They thought it must be a sham ; and towards
night were running in every direction to get vo
ters, The plea wae, that there was to be a “*loco
focdlush” just before the polls closed ; and of
course it must be met, or the city and State
would be lost. They did their very best, con
sidering the time they had to work in; but they
did not succeed in breaking the slumber of our
Democratic friends. The rush was all on one
side. Well, the other side will try it next fall,
perhaps,
A Remiviscexce.~ln 1842, when the contro
versy for equal rights was at its height, and men's
pulses were quick, tho Algerines, among other
measures designed to intimidate the Suffrage |
men, resorted to threats of assassination, some=
times outspoken, and, at others, conveyed in
lettera, one of which was handed as a specimen i
to our predecessor, and long retained by lnim.:
On the other side, some one, it seems, published
in one of the democratic papers (not the Herald) '
a list of several of the meancst and most odiona
of the Algerines, with the addition of their places '
of residence; but it has not been pretended, so
far a 8 wo huve learned, that any one of the per
sonsso published, was injured in gny form by any
Suffrage man. This publication, the only offset
that can be found 1o the conduct, which we have
before alluded to, is now brought forward again |
by the editor of the Providence Journal, and
shows the rankling of that old Algerine spirit of
malice und revenge, which time may apparenily
witigate at intervals, but which springs up again
in fuil malignity upon every retrospect to past
aflairs. T'he Algerines, conscious that they have
deeply and basely wronged the Democrats of thie
State, under the promptings of cowardice, be
come savage and unrelenting, ns is generally the
case, when delivered from its previous fears and
apprehensions, and acting out the truth of the
old maxim, that men will not forgive those whom
they have injured,—are both unasble and onwil=
ling to forgive the past, and are siill disposed to
throw out on all occasions their unmanly taunts
and provocations,—to treat the wmajority, whom
they keep under by their old charter Constitu=
tion, as an inferior caste, worthy only to be en=
slaved,—and to preserve in their minds the con
stant working of a sense of degradation, for which
there is to be no remedy—and from which, ex=
cept through a voluntary banishment, there is no
escape. “The old hostilities and the bitter re
collections’’, says tho Journal, poriraying the
feelings of the Algerine party, “growing out of
onr recent difliculties, have not so far passed
awuy us to make it safo to entrust the govern
ment to the men, who endeavored to overthrow
all government'"!
There is with the consent of our rulers, to be
no change, no reform in our government; and
Algerine affairs must stand as they now do ull
the end of time.
Of the poliey, good sense and love of harmony
exhibited i the coarse pursued by the Algerines,
we have but little now to say. Nothing short of
the extermination of all patriotism and selfire.
speet under a system of Russian serfdom can are
swer their purpose. They must go much farther to
Le entirely safe. Bt there i« a remedy for the
worst evils of the body politie. Time is a great
innovator. A year is but a short period in the
life of @ Stare. In the frew country, and sur.
rounded by free States, we need not look for
ward to o dark and cheerless fatnre. A coneur.
rence of tha will, the ability and the opporiunity
iy correct all past mislakes, |
THE RECENT ALGERINE LAWS,
A feeble and hobbling attempt is made by the
Providence Journal to sustain the three new and
ontrageons Algerine Laws, on which we have
commentel, viz: a law to declare a railroad with
out charter or license a nuisance,~a law to pun
ish as eriminals persons committed on ewvil pro
cess,—~and a law to nullify so much of the Con
stitution as requires a majority of the electors for
the choice of all persons elected to office under it
by their votes,
I The great injnstice of the first act, and its in
vasion of heretofore well scknowledged rights of
property are so palpable, that all the Journal is
‘ able to say in vindication of it is zontained in the
following paragroph :—We Lknow how wuch
capital the Locofocos hope 1o muke out of this
question; and we also know that when the whols
watter comes to be understood, whatever may be
its temporary effect, these hopes will be wisera.
bly disappointed”! A prevy fait specimen of
Algerine logie! Tho Algerines, it is admitted,
have passed a villanous law; but when people
understand it they will begin to like it!
An apology for the second law=which author
izes the jailer of Providence County ouly, in his
dizeretion, and under the roles applicable to erim
inals, to put to labor in the jail, or in some *‘ad
joining™ place, “ull prisoners” who have been
such, on “*a civil suit”’, for a period “exceeding
six months —is supposed to be made when the
Journal suys, that a debtor may swear out in a
week, if he please. Dut it 1 possible to suppose
that the recovery is wrongful and that the debtor
is houest in his refusal : nor is the luw confined
1o cases of debt only, as the Journul intimates ;
and, if it were, what anthority has the legislature
to punish debt us a crime with confinement at
labor in the State prison. \Why is the law lim
ited to the County of Providence? Why is the
Juiler authorized to select whom ho pleases for
thilpunishment and 10 exempt others ?
* Batit is asserted that the law is designed to
meet a particalar case: 5o much the worse in a
' State which professes to administer general and
equal laws, and the Consttution of which pro-
Cvides (Art, 1, Sec. 2) that “all laws" “should be
made for the good of the whole”. "T'he case which
[ the Journal deseribes 13 a criminal one; and the
prisoner on whom the law is to operate, is a man
' who has been imprisoned for “refusing to pay a
JSine of 300 dollars” for “a violent assanlt’” ! But
| be the case as it may, it is not to be tolerated that
| to meet one case, or wany cases, discretion shall
: be vested in a jailler to convert a prisoner on civil
process into a erimiual. The tendeney of the age
18 to the entire abolition of imprisonment for
! debt. But if it have become necessary to the
; A'gcrille party to convert prisoners on civil pro=
| cess into criminals, letit be done by a law ex-
Ctending o all, aud Gmpartislly administered, so
Cthat the prisoner shall bo coudemned by Court
and not be consizned over to be victimized by
shenffs and jailers, in their wisdom and discres
tion, according to the eonsiderations that may be
presented to them. The Journal farther attempts
1 to lay the burden of tho uct on the shoulders of
the Democrats, in an Assembly where the Alge
rines controlled both Houses by large majorities !
How long is it that the Algerines have been ace
customed to submit to the direction of Democrats
Cin the enactment of laws !
That the third Algetine law, providing for the
election of Representatives by numbers and pla
ces 18 i violation of the Constitution, will appear
to every one who reads it. “lun all elections held
by the people under this couspitanion, a majority
of all the electors voting shall be necessary to the
election of the persons voted for’’ : not a major
ity of the electors vouug for candidates No. 1,
No. 2, No. 3, &ec, but of all who vote at the
given election, 'l'),ore is no authoriy in the Con
stitation thus to number an. choose Representa
tives. ‘T'he Representatives are yotey [* all to
gether, where a ballot is called for, and alvays
from neecessity in the wards of the city of Provi.
dence. We call for the anthority by wkich Rep
resentatives may be by law numbered in voting
for them. By the preseut provision the inten
tion of the Constitution i+ plainly dispensed with,
Suppose 1000 voters to vote each for two Rep
resentatives. Under the new law, Whig No. 1,
with 600 votes, will be elected over Democrat
No. 1 with 550 ; and \Whig No. 2, with 525, over
Democrat No. 2 with 325; while Democrat No,
1 has a majority over each of the two last named
and amajority of the whole number of voters,
and sull he is not elected. A candidate not
numbered may kave more votes than all the
enumerated oues and the preference of the vo
ters may yet he entirely defeated by the present
law. Show us any principle by whicn the vote
of an elector must be thrown nway unless given
for or against 2 numbered Representative, An
elector may have a candidate or candidates, whom
he prefers to either of the nominated and num
bered candidates, while ho is not desivrous of eras
ing nawes or of voting in direet hosulity to the
persons numbered, as he is now compelled to do
or lose his vole,
The excuse set up for this law is, that Repre
sentatives may held over in failure of a choice of
their successors, and that in case, say, of the elec
tion of one Representative in a towa entitled to
elect three, it cannot, without this law, be deter
mined which of the old members must givoe way.
The reply is, that we all know that the present
Coustitution is a miserable atfuir, vagne and con®
tradictory inits provisions ; but it does not follow
that the legislature are authorized to amend and
harmonize it by their acts, and to waerifice any of
its provisions. This is the business of the Peo
ple. But this act goes too fur, even if, as is now
contended, on Algerine principles, the legisla
tare can alter the Constitution. All that is neces
sary even in this case is to provide that the Rep
resentatives chosen +hall be numbered by lot,
every year, in the Assembly, for each town, and
that if the election of the whole number be not
complete for the nextyear, those elected shull take
the place of thoso having the lowest numbers,
But the excase which has been thus set up is
the merest pretense for passing the recent law.,
The true reason was—the Algerines of Provi
dence were frightened by the election here a year
ago, when, by proper exertions, on the second
trial, the Democrats might have chosen three
Representanives; and it was thought that by nuwm
bering them, and depriving the seattering votes
ofall value, nuless given against particular noi
bers, the chance of defeating the weaker candi
dates wonld be lessened,
The Journal says that this mode of voting pre
vailed under the Clarter, which is not a fact.—
For the Charter did not provide for electing the
assistants by numbers. I'his was an interpola
tion upon it by act of the General Assembly, who
altered itin other particolars as they pleased—as
the Algerines now clsim to do with their Con
stitution,
Such is the “argnment” of the Journal upon
the three new Alzerine laws, and, with the addi
tion of the ens.o nary effusion of malice against
Gov. Dorr, it is ali that our opponent has to say
forthem. Concadering his freedom from scruples
In the choice of weapous both of attack and di=
fense, wo may take it for granted (fat he feels
himsell oppressed by the weight of a bad cause,
which will not bear examination, and is best
maintained by sophistry, evasion and personsl
abuse. We ask our democratic readers candidly
to weigh and examine these new extraordinary
specitnens ol Ngerine legi<lation,
Trenenry Noles ouistaudm‘ irl Apnl, 1848
$12,007,000 31,
ELECTION RETURNS,
We are indebted, mostly, to the Journal, for
the following returns of our late election ; al
thoug incompleta, they are suificient to show
which way ** the cat hus jumped.”
PROYIDENCE COUNTY,
. Harris, Backett. Liberty, Beat,
Providence, 1443 495 70 1
North Providence, 172 77 0
Cranston, 150 243
Johnston, 74 B 3 5 45
Cumberland, 106 202 30
Smithfield, 406 042 41 4
Scituate, JO6 303 3
Burrillville, 77 113 12
Foster, I maj.
Glocester, 3 167 21
BRISTOI COUNTY,
Bristol, 139 20
Warren, 142 2)
Barring'on, o 2 14
KEXT COUNTY
Warwick, 328 102 4
Coventry, 210 0 19
liast Greenwich, 108 57 16 2
WASHINGION COUNTY,
North Kingstown, 105 125 25 2
South Kingstown, 125 30
Hopkinton, 114 0b 43
Richmond, 78 37 3
Charlestown, 065 05
Westerly, 78 32 18 2
NEWFORT COUNTY,
Newport, =7 7 33
Portsmouth, 100 maj.
Tiverton, 6 maj.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SENATORS,
Providence—Richard W. Greeno,
Smithfield— Gideon Bradford.”
Cranston-—Charles Goodwin.”
Johnston- - Ephraun Winsor.
North Providence— Lemuel JAngell ”
Cumberland-—Olney Ballow *
Scituate—-Albert Hubbard.”
Foster-—Gideon Burgess.
Burridleile.—~ Dutee Lapham,
Glocester— Jlmasa Eddy.
Newport—Edward Clarke.
Portsmouth—Wilhham Barker.”
Tiverton—Joseph Osborn *
North Kingstowa—Jeremiah G- Chadsey.”
South Kingstown—Ehsha R. Pot.er.
Excter—A Locafoco.
Richmond~ Benjamin T Reynoldas ™
Hopkinton—George W. Holdredge.
Charlestown—James N. Kenyon.
Westerly—Welcome A. Hoxie,
Bristol—George Pearce.
Warren—Haile Collins.
Barringtun—Henry Smith,
Warwick—William D. Brayton.®
Goventry—Christopher A. Whitman,
Fast Greenwich—John Shippee,
REPRESENTATIVES.
Pravidence—Robert Angell, Jabez Gorham,
Henry L Bowen,* Williain R. Watson,* Sam’l
Ames, James T Rhodes, Shubael Hutchins,
Goorge 8. Rathbone, James C Hidden, Edward
1 llazard,” Williain Sheldon, lsrael G. Man
chester.
Smuthfield=—Daniel Pierce,* John Fenner*
Jmasa Smith * Israel Sayles,” Alden Coe,” Ed
win R-Mowry* .
Cranston = lsaac N. Sprague,” Nathan Porter.”
Johnston~- Resoloed Waterman, Samuel Irons.
Cumberlund—Fenner Brown,” Geo. L Dana,
Olney Arnoid *
North Providence=-John H. Weeden,* Thomas
Darvis,* Jesse §. Tourtellot *
Settuate— Horace S. Patterson,* Arthur F. Al
drich ™
Foster—Eddy Walker.
Burrilleille Esten Angell.
Glocester—Smith Pechham, Cyrus Farnum.
Newport-<Henry Y Cranston, Christopher E.
Robhins, Joseph Anthony, Henry E. Turner,
Silas Ward *
Portsmouth—Fdward Coggeshall.*
Tiverton— Cook Borden,* Robert Gray.
Warren—-Alfred Bosworth, Charles Randall.
Barringion—Btillman Weleh.
Bristol—John D"Woll, W. H. S. Bayley.
Warwick —Cyrus Harris, Walliam B. Spencer,
Thowmns Holden,* Christopher Allen *
Coventry—" Thomas Whipple, Amos Fiske.”
East Greemwich—John G Reynolds.®
North Kingstown—Sylvester G. Shearman,
William D. Davis
South Kingstown--Elisha Watson, Carder
Hazard *
Haukintow ~Joseph T. Barber. -
Richmond—John H. Lallibridge.*
Lxeter—a Locofoco.
Charlestown—J. Gavitt.*
Westerly~Nathan F. Dixon,
Democrats are printed in italics—the * desig
nates new members.
[orFician.]
VOTES FOR SENATOR FROM PROVIDENCE.
Wanos, 1 3 3 4 5 0 Towml
R. W. Greene, 166 308 248 226 253 204 1405
Edwin Ficld, 64 20 63 57 105 153 462
Scattering, o 2 5 11 J 0 32 7
VOTES FOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM PROV!-
DENCE.
Wanns, 1 2 3 4 8 6 Total
No. L
R. Angell, 162 308 248 237 254 204 1413
J. B. Aisson, 59 20 63 58 105 153 458
5(‘8[1‘0""‘ 8 3 4 8 10 33 66
No, 2,
Jabez Gorham, o 162 306 246 247 254 203 1408
G. AL Ormshee, 60 20 63 53 105 153 459
Scattering, » 9 ¥ 7T W B 9D
No. 3.
M. @. Bowen, 155 301 244 234 251 196 1381
S, H. Wales, 63 23 63 57 105 149 460
b‘tanthina. ] 5 5 9 18 M 76
o 4
Wm. R Watson, 127 239 184 171 190 106 1017
Thomas Greene, 63 20 62 60 104 151 460
Scull\rnn_u, 46 TS 45 63 48 116 3l
AU O
Samuel Ames, 145 300 217 222 247 270 1361
John A, NHowland, 63 20 63 59 105 153 463
Ncattering, N 7 4 13 16 I 8
No. 6 . ”
James I Rhodes, 164 305 245 287 254 205 14
Stephen 8, Salisbury, 63 20 60 58 105 151 457
Htul;\r_-lm?g, 9 4 6 7 10 RN 63
o 7.
Fhubael Hntching, 164 309 246 206 254 204 1413
Albert G, Bprague, 63 20 63 563 106 153 42
Hcmgring. 8 4. 5 7 10 34 68
0. ¥,
G. 8. Rathhone, 164 311 249 233 254 205 1421
Johin H. Chace, G 4 20 63 58 105 152 462
Fulg-uinu, 8 3 4 7 10 3 6
vo. 9,
J. C. Hiddep, 150 302 242 226 237 199 1360
Clement Webster, 61 20 63 58 103 157 460
i I!cal:-:iug, W 65 5 10 19 490 »
| No, 10,
Ed. . Hazard, 149 280 228 222 216 187 1291
Samuel Wihipple, 63 19 62 58 104 153 450
Heattering, 0 19 14 14 43 47 167
No 11,
Wm. Bheldon, 150 3.4 247 233 €53 201 1397
James N. Hopkins, 61 20 62 53 105 152 40
Scatiering, 12 4 5 10 10 37 8
' No. 12,
1. G. Manchester, 160 307 246 23) 253 191 1387
Asa W. Davis, 63 R 0 63 58 105 153 462
Sca tering, 10 92 5 11 10 3 7
SMITHFIELD.
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR,
Harris, Sackett, Liberty, Scat.
First Distriet, 159 190 24
second Distiict, =3 1038 2
Third Distroet, 106 126 17 3
Yourth District, 53 108 1
06 52 4 )
GENERAL ARSEMBLY.
Districvs, 1 2 3 4 Tonl
| SENATOR,
CGideon Bradford, 194 108 137 95 535
‘ George O, Ballou, 106 v 4 126 53 1
REPRESENTATIVES,
‘ Danwl Picree, 15 103 137 9 507
John Fenner, 185 108 137 o H 25
| Amasa Sunthy 19 108 137 95 5
f<rnel Sayles, 140 7 114 01 31
‘<AI(IH| Coe, 13 103 137 103 451
| Edwin R. Mowry, 191 7 137 88 5
CAmos D Lockwood 155 2 104 57 a2uB
iC. W, Kelly, 159 82 07 €S 403
| Ethan HWarns, 160 2 104 62 408
H. C. Weeden, 154 76 94 66 3
David G, Pales, 155 B 2 i o 6 WOl
Joseph Clarke, I . 8 104 06 7
The inside form of the York, Pa., Advocate was lately
knocked into pi, and the only line ‘('“ standing, was the
name of Henry Clay, in the midst of the ruins.—[Whig
Paper. ‘
T'he form was n type of what will be the con
dition of the whig party next full, when Mr, Clay
will lnmsell” be toand stauding “in the midst of
s ruins”’
Very well hit brother of the Boston Times.
£757 Thoe whig papers say that Mr. Clay will
be 71 years of age the 121 l of this month. We
think we saw the same statement, about four
yearsago. [arry has a fixed nge as has horses,
they being ulways “about eight years old.”
“Avvensity exasperates fools, dejects enwards,
draws out the faculies of the wise and ingenions,
pots the wmodest to the necessity of trying their
skill, nwes the opu'ent, and mokes the idle in
dustrious. "= Duston [ost.
| Crassron Evgerion . —="The Algerines in Cran
ston are at last conguercd="Gone—hook, line
and sinker”—and with such an overwhelming
majority that it mnay be considered certuin earnest
Cthat it is not again te be lost, The contest was
conducted by our friends with great spirit and
Cunaninity. A correspondent says-
“I'lie great battle between the Demoerats and
Algerines came off at the Town House on Wed
nesday the Sl instant. The engagewent lasted
about seven Lours, “T'bere were no lives lest on
either side, although the Algerines were ull appa
rently more or less wounded. The Democrats
have taken entire possession of the town., “I'he
majority for Charlesr Goodwin, for Senator, be
ing sixty-nino=—majority for lsane N. Sprague,
first Represcutative, ninety-nine—-for Nathan
Porter, second Representative, ninety one.”
« I'he Demoerats of Cranston have done honor
to the State, to the town, and to themselves,—
Last year we lost the town by a few votes; and
the wonder to us is, how our friends have drub
bed the foe so handsomely now. Ninety-mine
majority, in a town polling less than four hundred
votes, is great! And the victory bat goes to show
what our friends can do when they set übont it,
Let other towns in the State note the victory in
Cranston and imitate ity example.
New Yokk MELTING TO CONGRATULATE THE
Frexen.—An immense meeting was held in New
York on Monday evening last, to respond to the
glorious revolution in France, and to offer con
gratulations to the French People for the estab
lishment of a Republican government. The
Journal of Commerce states that **thousands and
thousands of people, composed of all creeds,
and a'l countries, met together and united as one
man to pay homage (o' new born liberty in the
old world.” "T'he Globe heads its account of the
affair with “Monster Mass Meeting ! “Oune hun
dred thousand Republicans in conclave’, of every
language and tongue, assembled in grand con
vention to hold a congratulatory jubilee of re
spounse and gratulation.
I'he meeting was held in the Park at 5 o’clock,
at which hour the Mayor and Aldermen, wearing
tri-colored rosettes on their breasts, advanced
from the City Llall, to a platforn erected in its
front. The tri-colored flag waus waved from the
balcony by Alderman Crolius, and a band of ma
sic stationed there sent forth the inspiring notes
of the Marseillois Hywmn.
The Mayor was then appointed to preside
over the enthusiastic multitude, and on taking
the chair made a spirited speech, addressing it
appropriately to the emigrants from Germany,
Ireland, Poland, France, Italy and Swizerland,
all of whose nations, he remarked, “worship at
the shrine of freedom—and the shouts of trium.
phant welcome with which we hail the birth of
liberty in France, will reverberate across the
broad Atlantic, and reach the rewotest corners of
the land.”
A short, but comprehensive and well adapted
address, was then read by Alderman Franklin;
after which a resolution was presented by Mr,
George Wilkes, tendering an ardent desire for
reciprocal eitizenship and pledging the influence
of those who composed the meeting with the
conncils of the nation for the adoption of frater
nal measures. Platforms were crected for resi
dents from foreign countrios, and alier the speech
made by Mr. Wilkes, when he introduced his
resolution, orators ascended to the several ros.
trums prepared for the oceasion, and harangned
their respective hearers with ability, eloguence
and spirit. The speeches made on the occasion
inthe English, French,Germun and other tongues,
were responded to with great enthusiasim, As
the night set in, the City Ilall and many private
houses were illuminated and 1 eplendid display
of firo works lit up the city in a Lluze of joy.
Coxnecricur ‘Evrkcrion —T'he canvass was
warm on both sides, but the Whigs have carried
the day, and re clected Governor Bissell and his
associates on the ticket of General olficers with
whig majorities in both [louses, T'he whigs have
done no wmore than to retin the power which
they had already acynired. and the democrats, al
though they have lost nothing, have been disap
pointed i their hopes of a victory, Two U. S,
Senators are to be elected by the legislature which
this election has produced, and this, no doubt,
lent additional impulse to whig action, and indeed
to the efforts ef both parties. The democracy
did entertain a hope that they conld send two
democratic Senators to the Scnnte, butthey must
suffer the hnmihation of seeing Connecticut rep
resented in the Senate by two whigs opponents
of democratic measnres and of the adminisira
tion.
A [hixt.—The writer of a letter from Paris to
one of the New York paper, after allnding to the
news, then just arrived, of the brilliant andover.
whelming victories of the American armies in
Mex'co, including the surrender of the eapitl,
and to the profound inpression of the American
government, occasioned by the striking exhib
tion of its vigor and efliciency, ndds thns timely
remark—"'Let all who take part against our coun
try in war remember that they have England and
Englishmen for alties.”
T'he Federalists had the same allies o the war
of 13125 but the Democracy of the United Siates
were trimmphant over both, as they will be in
1848 over the alliance of the Whigs and Mesicans.
7% Music luis arTERNOON .~ ]t is snnounced
by the Hansers that 10 enadble children and oth:
ers who cannot conveniently lcave home in the,
evening, to enjoy their music, they intend to give
u concert, at Westiminster Hall, this afternoon.-
Parents, we hope, will furnish their cluidren with
the meuns of attending, for such music is not on.
ly delightful to the ear, but has a wholesome influ.
ence on the feelings and the morals.
§37 Levi Lincoln has been elected Mayor of
the new city of Worcester. T'lis gentleman has
been governor of Massachusetts, hias held a seat
in Congress, and sustained other imporant offi
ces.
§77° The Northern lights were brilliant last
Thursday evening ; and we took an oceasionnl
glimpse of these atiwospherie phienomena Ul near
widuight,
57 Benj F. Luham, L., wacadmitied by
the Supreme Counrt to the Ruode Island Bar, on
Thursday last. A
{77 Horace Mann, whig has been elected to
Congress from the district lately represented by
J Q. Adums.
O Parxrings —A few very beautiful vil paint
ings, oncopper, by German®artists ave for sale
at Thurber's music store—the pictures are wor
thy of notice anld purch se,
E 7 Mr Geo. P Daniels, of this city, lately
deceased, in March 1346 ellected an insurance
of $3OOO npon bis hfe.
£ No papers were issued from the prinei
pal offices in Boston yesterday, it being Fast
Day.
WT'IO o"“(:h.'llcl" A\‘."(lCi’\'i"n l."l(' “|ci‘
annual meeting at their Hall, on Monday afier
noon next, at 2 o'cloek.
A whig mayor and council have beoen chosen
in Cineinnat. At St Lonis a demoeratic mayor
snd council==majority for mayor 300, At Hud
son a whig mayor and conncil=majority for
mayor 72,
Heary Damages —A jury in Philadelphia re
eontly gave the plarmith a vordiet for ten thousand
Guilure, in @ broach of promise case.
LFEUN A CORMESFONDENT,]
Wasnmisaron, April 1, 1545,
Sir.=The English correspondent of the Luteifi.
gencer of whom L spoke in iy lust, says that ex
cluding the Army and Navy there ure fice timen
the number of persons in the service and un
der the patronage and pay ol the French govern.
ment than the whole number of voters in the
kingdom. 11 we couple this with the other fact
that less than one thirtieth part of the peisons sre
allowed by their present ‘Constitutional Charter'
w voe in France as vote in the United States,
the question 15 a pertinent one, how are the peo
l"” of Frunce ever 1o obtain rehief from this ex
treme miuority rule by rendering that charter
more libernl or by adopting another constitntion.
According to the “Law and Order” doctrine of
your State they must do this in one of two ways
or submit to this misrule forever. They muost do
it, either with the consent und by a law of the
existing government or by a revolution of force
and violence. But such is the aversion ol the
small class of the existing voters to lessen their
own power and influence by extending sullrage
that a majority of (em eannot and will not be
peaceably bronght to conseut to it, and taking hu
man natura as it is there is no reasonable %ml
pect they ever will consent to it. The sbove
doctrine therefore leaves the French people but
one and only one aliernative "I'hey must re
sort to “Revolution” in the “Law and Order”
sense Qf that terw,—that is—they must kill a sof
ficient nomber of this charter majority to frighten
the rest out of their votes, and il they cannot
thus frighien them, they must kill them all.—
Whoever is capable of sceing the similarity of
the predicament in which the people of France
are placed with that in which the people of Rhodo
Island were placed in 1842, will see at once that
in one respect that of the people of Rhode Isl
and was the most hopeless. There scems 1o bo
some show of reason in requiring the French
people to wait till a majority of the legal voters,
were willing to elect a majority in the chamber,
who will authorize an extension of suffrage ; be
cause a majority of the legal voters in France
were actually represented in the chamber. But
with you in Rhode Island it was otherwise.—
Owing to your Rotten-borough system a majori
ty of your legal voters under the charter were
not represented in the House of Representatives,
and their will could not be carried into effect
through its agency It is true the Senate wawn
elected by a general ticket, but as it consisted of
but ten members a majority of whom by a law
of the General Assembly, must be taken from
the least populous part of the Stute, 1t always
yielded to the will olplhe other body of seventye
iwo members on the question of authorising a
nother constitution, which should extend suffrage.
It always did so until afier the People’s Consui
tntion was adopted. If these facis do not inuka
out a case of necessity for the legal voters to act,
u‘l)on a new constitution, without the authorny
of their minority Legislatures, what fiets can 1—
Mr. Webster's argument condemns the mejority
of the legal voters under yonr charter for not
waiting and carrying o effeet their will
through their Legislature, without sceming 1o
consider that to earry into effect their will in that
manaer was an impossibilily under the charter.
The majority of the legal voters neder the char
ter were then reduced to this dilemma, Theyv
must either carry into efleet their will, above and
ontside of the eharter, by removing the nuisance,
or submit to a minorny govermment, and suffer
ence, which sufferance they chose to withdraw
by an express dissent [rom it,—to a minority
government, which was not—in f(act—the * Re
publican government” which the United States
guaranteed to them,
You have probably noticed the anxiety betray
ed by certmin Whig papers about the decision of
your Riode Island guesiion. They uficet to be
80 certnin that the deciston will be in support of
the charter government that they very easily and
very prematurely soannonnced it. Their prophe
cy may indecd come to pass, bat they had better
not be too snre that the decigsion will gronnd -
sell’ npon a deniol of the principle upon which
the People’s Constitntion was adopted. Owne
thing 15 certain,—there 1s a great diticrence of
opinion among the Judges on this point=nnd it
15 equally certain that <ome of the most able of
them sustain that principle o+ a sonnd one,—
From atl T ean learn, L um satisfind that it is no |
eusy matter for them, to azree on the principles
upon which a jndgement adverse to the validity™
of the People’s Constitntion, shall be gronnded,
IT the bill now pending in Congress anthoriz
ing an adjournment of the Supreme Court to
May next, becomes a luw, the Conrt intend 1o
pronounce their judgement on your Rhode Isl
and case there. 11 it does not beeome 4 law you
urust probably wait for it ull next Decomber.
Yours, respectfully,
DEMOCRATUS.
Nortu Provivexce, April 6, 1848,
Str.—~Our men fought nobly yesterday. Atan
early hour small parues of the eneiny were seen
coliected in the **lugh ways and by ways" of Paw
tucket npparently ealeulating 1o give the Dorrites
a* Buena Vista'’ deteat.
T'he gallan: Democratic Veterans with their
young volunteers “feli into hineat 10 o'ciock A.
M. when upon the Moderator calling to order a
simnltaneous movewment was made by botn par
ties for the ascendaney—Qur first fire for Sena
tor, and Represestaives, being «tfectunl the ene
my fell buck and renewed the charge for Gover
nor &e. T'he Algeriues now rallied desperate
iy. Nothing conld exceed the excited, ammated,
nppearance of both parties for two honrs at least,
During this last attuck some ol the eneiny were
geen to leave the Algerines and conie over to
vote the Republican Ticket The batile stil wax-,
ed warm and n heavy contest was going on lLe
tween our young Democrats and Bank Alger
ine Arnistocrats until noon, when the opposition
gave way. The Enemy were allowed to bring
i their men until 5. P. M. however, when ihey
struck their flag. Phe precise nomber ol killed,
and wounded, 10 this days battle us near uw can
be ascertained 12 as follows—viz: 172 Whigs 9
Liberty, Total 181, By command of the Moda
rator. SERGEANT TRENCIL.
£757° Thege was a great meeting at Washing -
ton city on the evewing of Monday last, at Odd
Fellow’s 11all to sympahise aith the French
Mr. Seaton, Mayor of the city, was called 1o pre
stde, nad a large number of Vice Presidents and
Seeretaries were then appoiated, all the otlicers
being or having been printers or editors of newe
prpers. Oun taking the chawr, Mr. Seaton made
a hundsowe speech, adapted 1o the profession of
those who composed the meeting, and to the
great occasion which had called them together,
It was received with tokens of applause, A so.
ries of resolutions were then adopted, congratu.
lating the Urench people ontheir zloious revo
intion, on their Republican government, ontheir
emancipation from royal rule, and dilating on the
power of the press as thoe Agent of (his reform.
Speeches were made by wany of the mreting
snd tho whole allair was spirited and enihusias
e,
The Ten Hour Law tn Pennsy'rania —"l'le Ten "
Hour Bull, a 8 0t enme from the Senate, passed the
House of Assemblyoin Pennsyivania, on the 2lst
uit,, by wn everwhelming moajony,
The body of Brgadier Geveral . D Hopping
arvived ot New York on Vaesday tron Mexico,
by the New Orleans pocket QQuebee
Mr. Sevier, Commissioncrto arrange the troaty
with Mexico passed throngh this place vesterday
on his way 10 the seene ol his duties.— Monl/gom
ery (Alu.) Journal, 20k ult, y
Cheap Travdling. —Five steamoers. among them
the Liane Newton and Rip Vanwikle, left tioe
city last evening A« a result of SOO,
passage 10 New York was to belind tor 2o ccnis.
—Albany Argus Mond.iy.
The number of vietims in the late Revolution
in France publicly buriod s represented to have
been 170 1o 1230 Crarles the Tenth had only
14.000 troopa, but sbove 1200 of the people wero
kilted,
Mose of Rum’s work - Wiltiam Beeliel, of Phil
adclphia, kitled his wife last Saturday, cotting her
throat with a jack koife. The cau-e was jeal.
onusy and rum.
At o funeral in Woolford, Canada. John WY
«on was heaten and killed, on ace . . =
fend in Treland. 8 Ssconnt of an oid
Capt. R G Livington of the Flotida volune=
teers, died at Puebly Feb, O, of an secidenal
wound e was educated at West Point,
Mary Catharine Rayon ond dicd a 1 Charleston.,
8. C., onthe 21 st frow drinking cold wn=
ter after taking a strong Jose of antimonial wine.
Jacoh Suyder, suspected as an accomplice of
Langfeldt in the wmurder of M:o Radtemacher,
Las been arrested in Philodelphia,
An extencive meeting of the pent bein Dayton,
Ohio, nommated Gen. Tayior for Prosdent.