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s3n MRlail.
Demonsteation in Naples.
The following letter from anh“l, of the 25th
ult, is given in the Nowrd/liste of Marseilles :
“ The news of the insurrection of Lombardy
reached us on the 25th, and as #oon as it became
known the people went en masse 1o the Aus.
trian embassy, tore down the imperial arms
which decorated the fagide, dragged them to
the Place della Vittoria, and burned them
From thence the crowd went to the hotel of the
Minister Bozzell, erying, *Down with the Min.
istry ' Down with Bozzelli the renegade, the
traitor to the country ! Inthe morning of the
Q6th, more than three thousand persons assem
bled near the Royul Palace, with two tri-color
flags and n Lombardian flag, erying * Down
with the Ministry ! Succor for the Lombards !
The cavalry was immed.ately ranged before
the gates of the Valace, and ordered (o prepare
tor a charge ; bat this demonstration increased
the cxasperation ; the crowd at every moment
became greater, and the cries were more me
pacing. Thereupon M Gabriel Pepe, Colonel
ol the National Guard, went from the l'alace,
and in the name of the King promised that the
Ministry shou'd be changed, and that orders
shou!d be given to assist the Lombards. In the
evening of the 26th the people assembled again,
with the intention ot burning the arms of the
Russian embasesy, but the Swiss troops had re
ceived orders to oppose thig project. At eight
o clock in the evening, l{v crowd assembled
before the hotel of M. Serra Copriola, and sub.
sequently betore those of the other Mimisters,
uttering the same cries of * Down with the
Mimistry !" All the Ministers have given in
their resignations, which have been accepted,
but the composition of &« new Cabinet encoun
ters grave d'fliculties, because it is deaired not
to abandon o/d habits. However, lif the King
does not act quickly, the people may say to hun
¢ It 18 too late ! and act in s place.”
Jacksoavinie, Fronipa, April 15,
Deatu o Winniam Gissoss, Esq—We
announce with pain the melancholy intelligence
of the murder of Williwm Gibbons, Esq, the
Sheriff of Alluchua Couniy. The circumstances
are as follows: An individnal who gave his
name as Black, with a companion, had arrived
in Newmansville a few days before the murder
occurred, and the evening of the 4th instant had
been engaged playing cards with the degeased
A dispute occurred, during which Mr. Gibbons
called for his pistols. Black then went out into
the piazza of the building and challenged Gib
bons to follow him. He did so and immediately
alterwards a shot was heard, and Gibbons was
found alone with a bullet wound through his
right side. e lived but a few minutes, and the
only person who declares he saw the act com
witted, was a Mr. Watson, a resident ot the
place.
The Court of Inquiry.
Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune’
Mexico, March 29, 1248,
The country will regret 1o learn that General
Beott oceasionally uppears in Court very un.
welly, but 1 am beappy to announce that to day
and yesterday he looked much better. The
Court has announced that as soon as the cvi-
dence here has been Livard, 1t will adjourn to
the U nited States and there conclude s inves
ugations. 1t is working hard and wits from 9
wm the morming to 3 in the afternoon, wihich
renders it probable that the adjournment to the
United States will tuke place at tarthest witlin
three or four weeks General Butler yesterday
auppeared in Court, and requested the conclusion
of the evidence of Mr. Trist to be taken as soon
as possible, as he wntended to send him out of
the country withn six days, under escort, ns
Lie politely termed 11, but in reality the,* Na
prleon of Peace " will be sent under guird
Venezuela.—An ofticial bulletin from Munoz,
who commands a portion of the troops of Presi
dent Mounagas, dated 12th March, clanns that he,
Munoz, had that day roeted the troops of Gen,
Paez in the plains, and had taken some of his
baggege. But un officer under Gen. Paez, by
the name of Pru, formishes, under date of the
13th of March, a full explunation of this pretend.
ed “rout.” He states that Munoz invited Paez
1o a frendly parley 3 that Paez went out 1o meet
b 3 that Munoz tried to cucamvent and cap.
ture him; that Paez escaped from the #nure, and
on the following day (13th March) fell upon
Munoz and his forces and slunghtered most of
them, Maoooz himself, however, escaping. A
correspondent writing from Lugoayra, says—.
“Phis way be relied on, as it comea direct {rom
Prium hunselt, over his own signatare.”
A correspondent of the Philadelphis Noith
American writes from Puerto Cabello, under
date ¢f 27th uit, that there is at present but
Little hope for the speedy termination of dif
ficulties between the parties now contending
for ascendency in that country.
Gen. Paez 15 at the head of 3000 mnfantry and
horse, and is stationed in San Fernando, the
capital of the Province of Apure. He has seiz
e¢d on the Province of Cero, and the Provinces
of Maracaibo, Merida, and Trujillo have de
clared tor lim and aganst Monagas. It was
expected President Monages would attack him
at San Fernando.
BurcrLArY aBD AtrEmMrrED MURDER.—An
atrocious outrage took place at an early hour
this morning in one of the most populous dis
tricts o the eity. Mr. Kimball of the Night
Police seeing two men, whom he supposed to
be burglars, issue from the front of Gurdner &
Thayer's hardware store, about 1 o'clock this
morning, raised the cry of “ Stop thief !’ and
staried in purscit. ‘T'he burglars ran, aad pass
ed through Liberty Square, Kilby, Milk, Atkin
son, and Channing streets into Sister sireet.
Here Mr. David Estes, a watchman, hearing
the alarm, met the fugitives and seized one ol
them by the collar. After a desperate struggle
to free himself the burglar discharged a pistol,
the ball taking effect on the left side of Mr. E.
just below the heart. Mr. Kimball, who was
sull in pursuit, sprang forward to seize the man
who had fired, when his companion fired at Mr,
K. and the charge passed upwards through the
sccond wlory window ol Mr. Sewell DBarkers
house, No. 2 Sister street, and struck the ceiling
immediately over the bed occupied by Mr. B,
and his wife. From there the tall glanced to
the partition and was picked up.
Alter the second discharge the fugitives
passed through a narrow lane connecting Sister
street with Atkinson and eecaped ; end when
Mr. Kimball lett the wounded watchman and
resumed the chase they were not to be seen,
On hearing the discharge of pistols and the
watchman's rattie Dr. Warren of No. 10 Chan
ning sireet, has'ened to the spot, where he found
Mr. Estes feebiy springing his rattle and utter
ing exclamations of distress and cries for Lelp.
D:. W bore hia to hie own houre, where he
was soon juined by Drs. Morrell and Townsend,
who assieted hun o exawining the wound. For
a long while no trace of abullet could Le found,
until Dr. Warren discovered a little bunch near
the epine, and gather'ag it vp, while he asked
one of his aseistants to draw lis knife scross it,
& #lug dropped upon the foor.
We learn from Dr. W. that #hould it appear
that the slog, instead of passing througii the
vody, glanced round the ribs and imbedded itsclf
near the spine 1n the mapner deseribed, there
are chances for the recovery of the wounded
man ; but this supposition is improbable. Death
from anternal heworrhage will probably be the
result, The wounded man 1s sinking fast.—
The residence of Mr. Estes s No. 1 Nashua
Yiaze.
It appears up n examining the premises of
Messis. Gardner & Thayer, that the burglars
had obtained an entrance through the back
window by boring three holes through the ghut
ter and raming the cross bar. They had obtain
ed no Looly, except aboul a dollar in change.
Toe wale was not disturbed.
Had Mr. Fetes knocked down the fugitive
burglar, on contionting him, he would have
token away fos pow r of mischief; but a wateh
man s not privileged 1o strike except in welf
defence. It would seem from this case that the
law 1 100 rigorous in this respect. 1t may be
presumed thal & man running awsy from a
watchman's cry of “ Stop thiel!” ju provided
with the means of wdding murder to his crime,
and he should be tieated accordingly
A handbill has prompily been issued by the
Mayor, offering a reward of $lOOO for the de
teetion and convietion of either of the authors
of thie infernal outrage. The whole eity police
are on the alert, and it 18 to be hoped that the
gty ruilisns will be caughit.— Bost. Trans.
"~ The Poston Evening Journa! of Th r.day lam,
saier that Mr. Lates died on Thuredsy morning,
Feescu Revvniie =Tue demonstration wt
Washington, sfier the sdjournment of congress on
Monday. i# represented 10 have been a grand of
fair, I'he procession was mighty and most en
thnsiastie, and with it splendid and appropriate
banners made a very five appearance, The ex
ercises were held at tho east front of the capitol,
The wulinde present. the fine opening prayer
by Rev. Charles Davis, a Methodist elergyman,
and an able addiess by Richurd Coxe, Esq , made
the scene worthy the eapital of the Union.
The meeting in Independenca square, Pliladel
phis, on .\lnmla{. culled by the mayor, to express
sympathy with the French republic, was exceed
ingly large and enthusiastie. ‘l'tirce platforims
were erected, for English, German, and French
speakers. Mayor Dielsterling, of the Northern
Libertes, presided. “T'he music having played
the Marselluise, H. D Gilpin innrodaced the re
solves, and McMichael, Kelley, Grand, and oth
er orators, addressed the mecting with fine efiect,
Death from the Dute of a Cat.—~A youth named
Keeler, whose parents reside in Laurens street,
died yesterday, after paroaxysws of raving mad-.
ness. ‘l'he boy was bitten some six months ago
Ly a cat, supposed at the time to be ralud, but
vo evil eflects were observed at the time, or
since, until a few honurs belore bis death, when
the symptons of hydrophobia became apparent,
and assumed a most violenut und distressing form,
Mr. Astor's Fstate.~Some conlusion hins exis
ted in the estimates of*the estate of the late John
Jucob Astor, from the fact that less than half his
property was inelnded in his Will. T'he amount
included v the Will did not exeeed 37,500,000 ;
hut he had conveyed by deed a still larger sam.
The whole value of his estate was 816,000,000
or £17,000,000,
A Huge Fortune. ~lt is stated in the Rochester
papers that Mr. Zachary Potter and his father,
of that eity, have left heme for England, under
the well fonnded expectation of entering upon
the speedy posssession of an estate, in the coun
ty of Dorham England, valued at 3,000 000 ster
g, or $15,000,000.,
Capt. Henry B, Newman, an esteemed citizen
of Kuoxville, Tenn., was thot in the ofiice of the
county court elerk, in the court house, by
Thomas D. Munay, and hived but abont fifieen
minates after. Murray was immediately taken
into custody by the sherifl, who was one of the
witnesses of the deed, and committed by Justice
White to await his trial,
It was in Alachna county, Florida, that William
Gibbous, the sheriff, was shot and killed by
Black. A dispute occurred at cards in Newmans
ville, and the only witness to the murder is Mr.
Watson, who says Black is his own son, disguis
ed with an alias beeause a roward is offered for
him in Jackson county, where he broke jail. It
is also believed that Black is implicated in a mug
der and robbery in Georgiu; he is arrested,
John Yates, the colored man, who viaced his
eickly infant child on o siove and burat it so that
itdied, in Pleas2ut Valley, N. Y., lias been sen
tenced 10 “ourtcen years in the state prison. Al
fied 8. Gannt, a colored lad of 16 years, is to he
hanged on the Gth of May for the murder of Mrs.
Bell in Niagara, Canada,
Troops for Santa Fe.—~During the week ending
Isth o=t 443 men, infantry and eavalry, with
thewr hiorses, &e., left St Louis to join the Mis
souri aud Indiaua regiments at Santa Fe and
New Meaico. They were enlisted by Captain
Korponay, who is 1o follow with a hundred oth
ers.
A number of persons were engaged, a few
days sinco, in digging out a mill seat at Tayloi's
ferry, on the South Fork of Grand River, in this
Stae, when the embankment gave way, and
four persons wero instautly Killed. =St Louis
Rapub , Apnil 19,
A negro man in Dade connty Mo., is said to
have Kitled his mistress and three of his own chil
dren, and 1o bhave nearly beuaten his master 1o
death, afew daysngo. "T'he murderer was appre
hended., The Sproglield Democrat, in which
the neeount s given, does not publish the numes
of the persons,.—lb,
Large robbery.—~A German named Hems, from
the Upper Missonri, who was a passenger on the
steawmed Wyandotte, from Weston to this city,
was robbed on the passage, of over two thou
sand dollars, consisting of gold, Missouri bank
notes, and 'reasury noten —JIb,
The Boston Convier says that iff Mr. Clay
thould be nominuted Ly the Philadelphia Con
venton, “demociats will win an Austerhitz vies
tory ; for it will be won belore the battie begins.,
The whig party will zo at ence into the mighti
est minority it has ever seen,”
It gives us pleasnre to announce the arrival of
Gen. Twiggs on Thursduy evening, in this eity,
from the south—a veteran, endeared to his couns
try by s skill, his gallantry, and lus brilliant
services. He enjoy good health and spirits. Tt
is said, if the war continues he will return to the
army in Mexico.— Wash. Union Saturday.
In the Court at Catekill, N. Y , Mr. Head, of
Durham, has recovered $lOOO damages against
Ransom Tanner, by the seduction of his daugh
ter B, 17 years old. The plainufl’ is a reputa.
ble mechame, and Tanner the son of a wealthy
farmer. The verdict was received with cheers
by the spectators.
Near Gainestown, Alabama, on the 12th, a
young lady, danghter of Senator Morrissette,
threw heise!l from steamer Selma, and was
drowned. She was returning home with her fa
ther from a visit to Mobile,
Wesley Pane, who was tried at Poughkeepsie,
for the murder of Mrs. Russell Las been found
guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged on
the 25th of May next. ‘l'be plea of hereditary in
sanity was set up but not sustained.
The New Orleans Crescent of the 16th con
tains the proceedings of the military court of in.
quiy in the ety of Mexico on the seventeenth
day, which was occupied entirely by Gen. P. F,
Smith, in giving an account of the battle of Con
lreras,
The Nary.—We understand that Mr. 'l', B,
King, chairman on naval affairs in the House, is
preparing a bill for the construction of twenty
naval brigs, of from four to five hundred ton
burden.
The Canal.—The Rochester Democrat of Fri
day says—*"l'here has been suflizient water let
into the canal, into this section to float the boats ;
and the fleet which has been moored here during
the winteris now moving toits ditferent quarters.”
Maryland. <The democrats in Frederick coun
ty, in convention on the 15th, declared General
Cass their first choice for the presidency, and ap
proved Mr. Polk’s entire policy.
William Knight, an excellent engineer, was bit.
ten by his dogtwo orthree months ago, in Spring
Garden, Philadelphia, and died on Friday last of
hydrophobia,
Ths Wilwington, Del, Blue Hen's Chicken
has, “without a why or wherefore,"” hauled down
the flag of Clayton and Taylor, which has been
flying ut its mast head for a year.
A young lady was killed by a runaway horse
in Lowell, She wasa daughter of Morris Mon
fnn; she was 21 years old, and worked in the
familtoy corporation,
Lawrence, a Canadian pedlar, stabbed and kille
ed Dernbaugh, with whom he boarded in Lonis.
ville, iky., was lodged into prison and died on the
eame night, of consumption,
Col E. D. Baker of lllinois has been nomina.
ted a« a candidate for Governor ol that Siate, ir
respeclive of party.
«Horatio Sprague, Fsq., for many years consul
of the United States at Gibraltar, died there on
the 20th ult , in the Gsth year of his age.
The Young People’s Mirror, published by Mr.
Lossing, N. Y., is the best periodizal for youth in
the country.
There was a very severe shock of an earth
quake in St Thomas on the morning of the Gth,
creating much alarm, but doing no damage,
A Good Law.~ln Buffalo a wan is fined twen
ty-five doliars if he erects a building without set
ting out shade trees in front of it.
Hogs Slaughtered.~Nomberslaughtered at Cin
cinna'i lnst winter, 412562 ; on the Missouri Riv
er, 22,2,
3!;‘ 8. shup Saratoga arrived at Hampton Roads
234.
A boy named Basset was run over and Kkilled
by o train of cars 10 Bridgeport, Conn
A -Innlnr, Lewis I, Cary, shot himself at the
Lockport House in that village, New York.
The Liroadway Theatre, New York, narrowly
escaped destruction by fire on Saturdsy evening.
Navul.<Orders are recoived at Norfolk 10 got
reud for ses, frigates Raritan and St. Lawrence.
*
Republican fevald,
PROVIDENCE,
Saturday, April 29, 1848,
FOR THE HREFUPLICAN MERALD,
BANKING AND MANUFACTURING COR~
PORATIONS, AND WAGLES,
We lefi this subjectat the point of Bank restrie
tions: let ns now try to illustrate by recent and
presont circumstances, what has been said. One
short year ago general business waws going on sat
isfactorily, credits were plentiful, disconnts low
and casy, and Banking and Manufacturing Cor
porations were making money. But the extra
ordinary depression in Ingland and the wreteh
ed condition of her maunfucturers for want of a
~market, and the somewhat lower rates of import
“duties on this side of the water, bronght about
~constantly increasing importations of European
manufaciures. The merchants at Boston, New
i York, Pliuladelphia, Baltimore, New-Orleans and
other cities, soon discovered, that as gold and
silver were very searce in Great-Britain, they
could buy all kinds of dry-goods exceedingly low
| by paying cash: hence they sent out wpecio and
made cheap bargains; speculators also sent gold
and silver becanse it afforded a profit as an arti
cle of merchandise, and these exportations of the
precions metals, at length caused the Banks to
attempt to curtail their inflated papercurrencies,
and so restricted disconnts. Gold and Silver
continned to obey the laws of supply and demand
and 1o leave the coffers of the Banks; discounts
were still more restricted, and the serew became
#0 tight that some feilures took place, whilst all
pradent men of business contracted their purcha.
see, and narrowed their engagements, Merchinnts
who had been accustomed to a certain nmount of
diseount, could now only get one hall or one
third, and had recourse to street brokersand mon
ied vultures ; the rates of mterest became exhor
bitant, and traders and dealers were compelled to
reduce their stocks and hold only one half or two
thirds their usnal amounts ot merchandise.
Boston Post,
T'his reducing of stocks in Merchants and Deal
ers’ hands reacted wpon Manufacturers and Com
mission-houses, 8o that their Stocks accumulated
fast. Manufucturers did not begin to produce
less as they ought to have done butkept up run
ning their mills full time; the stringency upon
disconnts continned, stocks keptinereasing in the
hands of Commission-men, Manufucturers, and
manufocturing Corporations, wntil the financial
operations of these worthics Liad well nigh got
them mto ditliculties, and then they determined
to soll off wlmostat random. Luirge guantities of
printed Cottons, and Woollen goods were con:
sequently offered for sale and us cash was searco
and eredits limited, those persons who had them
wade the most of them and ko the goods were
sold at enormounsly reduced prices; not becanse
the people did not require them to make them
comfortable and decent, not heeanse there was a
lack of store Keepers ready and willing to buy,
but because the bills and prowmissory wotes of the
Commission men and Manufacturers must be ta
kan out of the Bankers' hands in order to enable
the Banks to contract their paper issues.
Some of the Manufacturers by this operation
“were obliged to yield 1o the pressure of the
tines,” workers were thrown ontof employment
when nobody wanted them and in the depth of
winter; and other Mannfacturing Corporations
went home and reduced wages from ten to twens
ty five per cent, o 8 a means of making np ther
losses “‘and to enable them to meet the market.”
Here then is the canse of reduced wager, and a
less demand for labor in Cotton and Woollen
manulactories. But the etlecta ol the paper mon
ey restrictions had still more and worse influence
upon Rolling-mills, Iron foundries and Machine
making establishments ; some of the extensive
concerns failed, and others had their business
curtailed alost to nothing, so that the ingenious
hard-working Mechanics, who are the very pil
lars of society, were turned adriftio live or starve
with their wives and little ones as best they
could,
Tell us then, ye valuable men and women op
eratives, tell us what you gain by Banking and
Manufacturing Corporations? Youn know from
sad experience that when wages once get down
it 1s neat to impossible to get them up again; and
it is time you knew, if you are not already aware
of the fact, that every time these Bank restric
tions are repeated, so often will your wages be
reduced. Tell us then, ye workers, without
whom the richest and most extensive Printers,
Dyere, Bleachers, Iron founders, Machine-ma
kers and Manufacturers are nothing, tell us, if
you can, what you gain by the Paper Money sys.
tem? It yon cannot do so, we can and will—
you gain all the advantages deriyable from paper
money making machines, which ingeniously and
almost impreceptibly extract a large part of your
just earnings from your pockets, snd place them
in the hands of other people who do no useful or
real labor for Society.
But some will say, itis not all paper money,
that canses these commercial panics;itis the new
tanfl that does it, which brings English, German,
Belginm, ard French munufactured goods so
cheap into the United States, that they deprive
our own manufacturers of the home market.—-
T'his however is an error; it cannot Yo so, for
wa have already shown that very many kinds of
Goods cun be and are made as cheap in the Uni
ted States as in Lurope ; and there is nothing to
prevent its being done in a vast many wore fa
brics, but the unreasonably large profits demand.
ed by Banking and Manulacturing Corporations.
Even the present tariff gives a bounty or protee
tion to our Manufacturers of from 40 to €0 per
cent; whilst to the working classes it affords
neither high wages, or permanent employment,
as they are now beginning to find ont.
l What then ought to be done iu order to pre
| vent Bank restrictions, periodical depressions
and gradnully declining wages, there is only one
l effuctual remedy and that is the total destruction
i of the present paper money system. Let us
| suppose for a moment that the charters of all the
| Banking Corporations in the United States were
ordered by law to be abolished in two years from
' this time, what would be the cffect 7 "The effect
~wonld bo this that rents, clothes, catables and
drinkables and every thing else would be very
much cheaper, and wages would be reduced ;vo
, that if a factory operative or mechanie had pre
viously earned seven dollars per week he would
| probahly then earn only four, but this four dol
ars per week wonld procure him a better living
than the seven did, and heney the laboring clas
ses would be benefited. And what effect would
it have upon Manufuctoring 7 It would have o
most heslthful and beneficial effect, for speculal
ing and over emerprising wen, who live extrava
gantly and who have neither kil nor eapital,
conld not then, as they have hitherto done, go in
to Manufacturing, and it would be leftas it ought
to he to men of real eapital and praetical know!ls
edge who wonld produce cheap goods and make
their concerns sonnd and permanent. Wages
and other requisites being thus reduced the cost
of the guods would Le proportionally less, and
wonld put it out of the power of any taridi’ alter
ations to take the home trade from them ; nay it
would even enable Manufacturersto export moch
more largely and extend ona sound basis their
respective trades, But this is not all the good it
would do. It would make lubor more perma
nent, and muke families more harmconious and
settled ; it would prevent speculations in public
lands, real estate and the necessuries of life; it
would almost abolish shaving and forgeries and
note altering, it would make governments more
econowical and be a great means of preventing
war,
i What do our great men say respecting paper
money ! The Hon. Daniel Webster in a specch
before the Senate in 1232, thus expressed hiw
soll ““of all contrivances for cheating the laboring
classes of mankind, none is so effectual us that
which deludes thew with paper money!! It s
the most lmrfecl cxpndicul ever inveuted for for
tlizing the rich wan's ields by the sweat of the
poor man’s brow.” What did the father of the
country, the immortal Washington,say 1 Hesaid
this *“l'ho wisdom of wan, inny humble opinion,
cannot devise a plan by whieh the eredit of paper
issues would be long supported; consequent'y
depreciation keeps pace with the quantity of the
emission; articles for which it is exchanged rise in
value in a greater ratio than the sinking value of
woney. Wherein then, is the farmer, the plan
ter, the artisan beneflitted 7 An evil equally groat
is the door it opens for speentation, by which the
lcast designing, and perhaps the most valuable
part of the community, pre preyed upon by the
more knowing and crafly specunlator, What did
John Adams say ! Ile said in 1705, I caunot
but lament from my inmost soul, that lust of pa
per money which appears in some parts of the
United Stotes. There never will be any uniform
rule, if there is a sense of justice, nor any clear
credit, public or private, nor any setiled confi
denee in public men or measures, until papor
woney is done away,"”
And lastly, what did Andrew Jackson say in his
farewell address in 15371 He said *“The paper
money eystem being founded on public eonfidence
and having in itsell no intrinsic valoe, is lable to
great and sudden tluctnations ; thereby rendering
property insecure and the wages of the laborer
unsteady and uncertain, The corporations which,
create paper wmouncy cannot be relied npon tc
keep the circulating medivm uniform iz amounnt
In times of prosperity, when confidence is high,
they are tempted by the prospect of gain, or by
the influence of those who expect to profit by it,
to extend their issues ol paperbeyond the bonnds
of diseretion, and the reasouable demands of bus
iness, and when these issues have been pushed
from day to day, until public confidence is shak
en, then a reaction talies place, they immediate.
ly withdraw the credits they have given, suddens
ly contract their issucs and prodace an unexpeect.
ed and rmnous contraction of the cireuliting me
diwm, which is felt by the whole community,”
{57 It pleases us to notice inthe New Ocleans
papers a statement from Mexico that Gen. Botler
will send Comumissioner T'rist out of the country
as soon as he has eonc'uded his testimony before
the Court of Nlry now in session. On the
lust day of the session—of which we have intelli
gence—=Gen. B eutered the Conrt and requested
that T'rist’s testimony wight be coneluded as soon
us poesible, as he wished to furnish him with an
escort on Lis way home=—in more blunt phrase,
he would send him off under gnard, as soon as
the Conrt should be done with him,
T'here can be little doubt that this Trist 15 an
accomplished scamp, and deserves to be kicked,
il not to be hanged. He played Bombastes Fu=
rioso with General Scott on his first arrival in
Mexico, wasting weveral montha in a most die=
graceful quarrel with that otficer, (who, by the
way, scems ready to quarrel with any thing that
comes along,) and most shamefuily violating the
instructions which had been given him. When
reprimanded by Mr. Marcy, he turned to Scott
for sympathy, and the two have seemed to be all
honey from that moment. He devoted, it would
geem, & good portion of Lis time in gaining the
confidence and prying into the private afiirs of
Gen. Pillow, and then meanly dealt all that he
knew, and many things that were shamefully
fulse, 1o Gen. Scott and the Court of Inquiry.
Amongst other things, he has lately sworn that
the interlinations in the Leonidas letter were in
Pillow’s hand writing, while it turns out that they
were made by the Editor of the New Orleans
Delia himsell before handing the letier to his
privters. If Gen. Scott had put handeufls upon
him and sent L Lome when he was ordered to
return und refused to do so, he would have done
his duty and nothing more: nnd nothing would
have been lost to the country in the prospect of
& peace. His pre-cuce has only served to im
press the enemy with the belief that we are ex
ceedingly anxious for peace on any terms, and to
induce an indifference to the treaty already rati
fied by us which may prevent its ratification
there. We are glad Gen. Butler Las the wisdom
and the pluck to let such a fellow know his place.
Too Late.—The proprietors of the Stowart
estate have commenced throwing out sand from
what is to be the cellar of a contemplated build
ing. This is the spot through which, we have
uiged, a street ought to run in continuation of”
Orange street and to the Rail rosd depots, and to
accomplish such a great public improvement, wo
have often appealed to the city authorities, the
stockhiolders of the rail rond und to individuals
more immediately interested in such a projeet,
but all have turned a deaf ear 1o the ruggestion
and we shall fail in establishing such a desirable and
almost indispensable thoroughfire. The build
ings about to be erected will be highly ornament
ed, but the space they are occupy should be laid
out as a highway,
Exkren.~ln publishing the list of Scnators
and Representatives at the luie election, we stated
that Exeter had elected “joco foco’’ members,
without giving names, e are gratified to state
that the Senator eleet 19 Schuyler Fisher, a
stnunch “ioco foco' and of the Dorrite order—
and that Cyrus Greene, the Representative elect,
belongs to the =ame class. Welldone,old Exeter.
Fire.=The northerly store in the brick block
recently erected on Canal street by Mis. Annn
Jenking, on the lot nestsouth of the old jail lot
was in danger of being destroyed, on Tuesday
night, by fire. The alarm was given, a few min
utes before one o'clock, and a large quantity of
hay stored in the building was discovered to be
on fire. By the persevering efforts of our fire
companies, the tlanes were extinguished with
litle damage to the building, and with a loss of
about $l5O to the owner of the fiay. Some gro
ceries were also stored there and slightly injured.
Without doubt this waethe work of un incendiary.
Domory & Sox <This popular work of Dick
ens, which attracted such genersl interest as it
came forth in numbers, has been published entire
at Philadeiphia and Bosion, in a very handsome
volume, illustrated by many engravings, and is
for sale ot the bookstore of C. Burnett Jr. The
illustrations are by li. K. Browne, and they are
original and unique.
£%7 Leland, ot 100 Westmin<ter street, has
issued a eatnlogue of music which lie has for sale,
in & pamphlet of an handred and forty pages.—
The hist comprises almost every thing that was
ever “written and sung.”’
SOUND DOCTRINL.
We commend 1o our readers the two following
high toned articles from that able democratie pa=
per, the Southern DBanner, published at Aihens,
Georgiae They are both from its number for
April 13ih.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF OO
—~DORRISM=THL SOVEREIGNTY OF
TUE PELOVPLE
1 he last Legislatnre of the State of Ohio (the
Whigs being in power) so apportioned the Rep
rosentatives 1o the State Legislature, as to throw
the government into the hands of the mivoriry
of the people Ly FIFTEEN THOUSAND
VOTES. "This act, ns might naturally be expect
ed, has produced u great populsr excitement, vi
olating as it docs the primary and essential prin
ciple of Republies, that the government should be
%0 constructed us 10 express the WILLOF THE MA
JORITY OF THE PEOPLE.
We percoive from the public prints, that the
discontent has assumed the shape of a movement
of a majority of the people, to right themselves
by their own INHERENT SOVEREIGNTY
A conventon of the people has been demanded
and will probably assemble shorily, for the pur
pose of restoring the government Lo ats rightful
basis
Already has this movement been denounced
by some of the Wlig jouraals. and among them
the leading, central organ (the Nutional Intelligen
cor us revolutionary’ —as the Cprogress of Dor
rism' —as the violution of “law and order'—as
the wovement of a band of “conspiretors” with a
“treasonable design 1o subvert the government,
I the whigs hiave not been tanght a vseful les.
gon by the frowns of the people of the Union up
on Mr. Tyler's administration, supporied by the
approbation of their panty, for dragooning the
prople of Riwode Island into a minority govern
ment under the Charter of King Chaurles the sec:
ond, as well as by the homage which is now paid
to the sovereignty of the people, even by the
crowned heads of Enrope, we may expect soon
to hear them demanding the interference of the
federal government to arrest the popular will in
Olio, under thy pretext of suppressingy domestie
violence."
The constitution of the United States makes it
the duty of the general government upon the de
mand of a State Legislature, or of the exceutive
thereof when the legislature cannot be convened
to protect a State against domestic violence,” =
Butitis a profanation of every Republican idea
—a prostitution of every rule of political science,
to denvminete the action of the majority of the
people of a State, ‘donestic violence.” Such a
construction invokes the federal guaranty for or
ganic errors—the most grievous maladministra
ton arising from those errors—prevents those
modifications and refors which ure essential to
Liberty and progress—and finally establishes the
maonstrous doctrine of “once in power, always in
porcer” 1o the enslavement of the governed.—
There is,and must of necessity be, for the pre
servation of liberty, an ever subsisting rightin the
majority, of the people—~a sovercignty atall times
residing with them, above all constitutions, to
snatch their destinies from the hands of their
rulers, who by Ithe true theory of government are
nothing more than their agents, and take care of
themselves. 11, forinstance, the Legislative body
be constrocted upon a basis adverse to the will
of the majority, as it was in Rhode Island, where
the right of snffrage was confined to a given a
monant of property, or as it is in Ohio, where the
majority are overuled by the minority, how is it
possible by any other process than a spontaneous
movement of the majority, to be relieved from
their burthons. I you wait for Legislaiive re
form either by law or a legislative call for a Con
vention for reform, what do you do but hope a
gainst hope for a pure stream 1o issne from a
corrupt fountain=for power once installed and
its harpy talons imbeded in its victim, 1o release
its grosp voluntarily 7 It will not aveid the dif:
ficulty to admit a bare revolutionary right to be
baptised in blood and established by power, be
fore it is recoguised. That puts hberty, with ite
often unarmed and undisciplined masses, at the
merey of the trained bands, the artillery, and the
bayonet, as well as the civil forms of the existing
government. Bot what kind of a revolutionary
right s that accorded to a people, which is to be'
dragooned down by the foderal troops, as in the case
of Khode Istand 7 It is far inferior to that now
granted 1o the European Siates by the admission
of Great Britain hersell, who with all her machin
ery of crowns and coronets—of Queen and no
biliy—bows In revervnce to the “sovcreign pow
er” (the people) of haly. France, and in fuct of
nil other nations, according it the right to limit
the power of their Kings or to demolish their
thrones at pleasure. It a Furopean monarchy
hus thus caughit the true teachings of political
philosophy, or is obliged to sncenmb to the sov
ervignty ol the people in states, the governments
of which she had guurantied by solemn stipula
tions, how do we desecrate the federal govern.
ment of these three freo States, in even dream
ing for a mowment of arresting by its interferonce,
the action of the sovereign people of one of them.
As we have seen that a popular movement,
having for its object the rel}:mn of the govern
ment by the will of the majority, is not a fit oe
casion for federal interference, under that clause
el the constituvion which provides that the United
States shall, wpon the application of the legisla.
ture (orof the Lxecutive of'a State when the Leg
islature cannot be convened,) ‘protect each State
nguinst domestic viwolence’—it will be necessary to
inquire into the proper oljects of that power.—
It has before been observed, that there must nee
essurily reside in the people a rightto reconstruct
their government, in order to relieve themselves
from existing defects, which the party in power
1= often interested in continuing—that this right
springs from their whierent sovereignty as princi
pals over their agents—that when their will js
fairly expressed, it #hould be recognised as the
supreme law—and that even the revolutionary
right, conceded by those who deny the civil su
premaey of the popular will, is but a delusion
and a mockery when it must be crushed by the
federal troops. as in the case of Rhode Lsland, un
der the supposed injunctions of the federal Con.
stitntion, |
T'he real objectof the federal protection against
domestic violence, must then be alone 10 preserve
the State Government against the assaults of any
body of i ndividuals short of the sovercign power,
or i other words, against a rebellious minority,
who seek to resist or overthrow the governmeut
of the majority. T'here can be no difliculty in
applying this rule, in as mnch as force of arms is
the only method by which the minonity can act,
and the influence of numbers is the usual method
of the majority, at least unul the will of the peo
ple is ascertained, at which time force should be
employed 1o execute the judgment of the major
ity, if necesrary. Any other construction con
verts the federal government into a worse than
“Holy Alliance” to crush the liberties of the peo
ple, by chaining them to organie defects in their
system, or maladministrations, which even tho
serfs of European Kings are now permitted peace
ubly to reform.
ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA-THE RIGHT
OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOL
ISHTHEIR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
—DORRISM,
We publish, to-day an interesting correspond
ence between Prince Metternich ol Austrin, and
Lord Palmerston of England, respectively the
Miuisters of Foreign Relaticnss in the two gov
ernments. It s not a hule amasing to behold
the trepidation of the Anstrian at the advance of
what he calls ** Utopian radicclism™ in the ltalian
States, and his fear lest it should there establish
veellin a “Federative Repnblic after the model
of North America.” Nor can wa snppress a
«mile at the disposition manifested by the Prime
Minister of the Ewmperor, to eschew *'social or
gomerninental polemics.” He no doubt desires just
atthis moment, to be considered eminently a
practical statesman, in avoiding theoretical ab.
stractions, and preserving things as they are.—
Eminently conscreative !
But whilst the position of the Austrian is wor
thy only of a sinile of contempt, that of the Brit
ish statesman elicits both our surprise and adwir
ation ! Surprise, because the doctrine of Euro
pean crowned heads, heretofore, has been that
the sovereign power of States, was in their rulers
and not in the people. Admiration, because the
liberal spint of the age and a sonnd political phil
osophy, has impressed npon the coancils of the
British government, at least, the elementary and
important trath, that all governments are but
Thusts and that the “SOVEREIGN POWER”
or right of surpreme control, resides in the PEO
PLE. and notin the government. Hence it is
that England sees at this time, snd acknowledges
their nghifal supremaey, the people of the lalian
Siates and of Franee, her powerful neighbor,
curbing the power Monarchs, and overturning
their thronee.
She bows submissively 1o that voz populi (voice
of the people ) which, polivieally speaking, has
been justly termed “the voice of tiod.” In obedi
ence to this high behest, we behold her through
her Minister of Foreign Affairs, ( Lord Palmers
on) annonuncing to her Minister at the Court of
France (Lord Normandy ) and hie unnouucing to
“the Prench Republic on the 21 day of March last
‘that England did wot hesitate an instant o ackuowl.
cdge "he right of the Freneh Nation to change the
Jorm of us gorernment.” ‘Thus 1t is we have ac
knowledged, by the minister of a erowned head
the inherent sovereignty of the people, or rigit
at all times to alter or sbolish their forms of Gove.
ernment. How does this admission, coming
from a throme, brand with treason agoinst Repub
l hican government, the suppression by the arns
of the Union, of the voice and wil of the people of
Rhode Istand, a fow years since, inubolishing the
tmprrly qualhilications on the RIGHT OF sUFFRAGE !
Where does it place Mr. Tyler, who ordered the
‘ lmu{n-—Mr. Culhoun who advised the measnie—
the Winias whoe approved itas a party—and last,
a few weak democrats who shyed around ©Dou
wis sil it were indefensible? How does it
snatch from the brow of THOMAS WILSON
DORR, the brand of ** Traitor” and impress it in
bnrning and idelliblo chinracters upon his oppo
neuts! ?
The following letter was intended for our lust
paper, but it came to hand “too lute."”
CORRESPONUDENCE OF THE MERALD,
Crry Horer, New York, April 24, 1848,
Friend Herald . ~Bix acts of the week's drnma
are winding np in a ealin, elear evening—xo fine
indeed that it hus prompted me 1o mb my pen
anew and inseribe yonanepilogue for the seventh.
The wost eugroseing topic s the news that is
brought by the Sarali Sands; and to the conmem
plative observer of results, 'tis just what in the
reasoning progress of the world, might be antici
pated. “The altar of humanity is seldom with
out a victim’, and that those who act from self
constituted antherity should be selected lor sacri
fice 19 not ot all extraordinary, We may love old
institutions, prerogative und power, aud we very
natural'y ching 1o that which brings us individual
advantages and immunites; but are onr prefer
ences to be reckoned against that great want
which thrills the heart of humanity? The uni
versal principle of the common brotherhood of
“man, whoso interests are identical, has prodoced
this change, and change is written on all the
shows of nature, So resistless is this prineiple,
that we mny gnote without compunction the dic
tum of Jean jncqneu when he says—''L'homme
n’est point fait pour mediter mnis ponr agir”
Should the powers that be, yield voluntarily their
crowns, step from their thrones, they would es
cape the tempest by ontrunning the wind, and
insure such a place in the hearts of the people as
induced the latter, in the morning of the world,
to make men Kings by acclamation.
A year's absence has produced a wonderful
change in the metropolis—either in the scope of
one's diminished sphere of action, or in the en
larged boundaries of structured *occupation'’
one or the other. The city is oveileaping its
watery barriers and yet it is too emall for its in
habitants. You will nuturally inquire how all
these people are occuping themselves. In a
peaceful and orderly manner; for in the bounty
of an allwise providence, “who shapes our ends,
rough hew them as we will”, bread and work for
all is provided.,
One item of news the round of vigorous life
has evolved., The steamer Washington, which
left on "Thursday last for Europe, returned this
afternoon, having been disabled i breaking some
portion of her machinery, Thig steamer will
prove a failure. She was constructed aliogether
upon too cheap a plan=half or less than half the
cost of the Briush ocean steamships. O amuse
ments there are a plenuful variety, I'he Bow
ery has been refitted and opened under the man
agement of Mr Hamblin, The Broadway, one
of the best appropriated houses in the country, is
in the full de of successful experiment, as Mr.
Jefferson would say. At the latter honse a new
local comedy has been produced, aud 1t is »aid to
be a decided hit in the way of racy, vigor, and
freedom of dinlogue,
T'he Academy off Derigns is open, and it con
tains some beautiful things; though on the whole
I think the exhibition inferior 1o that «f last sea
son. One great feature to these exhlubitions
should immediately be added, wnd that is, a pro
vision for a just and impartial criticism upon the
pictures, wnitten by some one whose nentral po
sition would enable him to draw from his own
mind his impressions, without fear or favor from
any one. At present much is snid, to be sure,
but it is suid in such a way either to fall harmless,
or efse to prejudice the public mind against those
who are really meritorions.
Tho two political party monsters are, to nse
the phriase of Elizabeth Barrett, beginning to put
forth *“their gradual slow claws”. A slow com
ing tempest will break over us shortly, with a
violenco that T am afraid few are prepared to
meet. Canada is ripening for a politeal tornado ;
and I speak advisedly wnen [ say, that she will
be n Republic probably ina year—more ecspe
cially if she receives the cooperation of the States.
The natural result of snch change will be annex
ation, and of course England would be obliged
to pocket the affront; besides she would not be
worth a struggle, taking iuto consideration the
enormous expense she has always been 10 the
mother country. It w/l be argued too that we
want it as an offset to Mexican aeqnisitions,
T'he new appointment at Rome inasmuch as it
affects the oflicial interests of a Rhode [sland man,
I cannot but thiuk is singular. T'he present in
combent accepted the consulship with the proviso
that it was to be exalted into a chargeship; and
as he has passed through all the varieties of change
there, it may wellbe presupposed that he was the
person best adapted for the pluce.
Fire! Fire! Fire! Should any one repeat to
us the oft insinnated desire to **go to blazes”,
Noew York would prove decidedly the eentre of
attraction T'he fire department get up an alarm,
oftener for their own amusement than to the in-
Jury of the insurance offices. Dulce est desipere
wn loco, snys Horace—which means “go it while
you're yonng'' ; and the members of the fire de
partment are always in a state of juvenlity.
Yours, C.
Axnuar Coscert.—Mr. J. C. Greene, givos
his annual concert on,Thursday evening next,
when he will be assisted by soms of the best
musicul talent of Bostou and this city. lis pro
gramme is very attractive which with the merits
of the beneficiary will doubtless uttract a very
large andience. i
{77 Burnett has received lithograph likenesves
of the members of the Provisional government of
France, who are now, *“the observed of all ob
sorvers’’. 'These are the grest men who have
pushed forward the ball of revolution, and aided
in the emancipation of the French people.—
Their acts arc regarded with much interest in all
purts of the world, and their portraits cannot fa.l
to attract notice wherever they are shown.
[7% The Nauve Americans of this city are 1o
have a ““mass meeting' on the court house parnde
this evening. The square will accommodate
them, easy, il none atiend but those belonging to
the party.
[757 It is rumored that Signora Biscaccianti
intends to give another concert in this city, We
trast that this will prove correct, that our citizens
may have an opportunity to enjoy the richest
musical entertainment ever offered them
[ Capt. Woolsey, of the sieamer Perry, has
published his arrangements for election week,
which will bo seen in anothercolumn. I'he Perry
is an excellent steamer and makes her passages in
a very short time=say “one=forty."
9" The “Sable Brothers”, a corps of superior
melodists whose performances in New York and
elsewhere we have seen highly landed, will per
fora™mn this city nest week,
{77 Bliven's Ocean Cottage, ot Newport, will
be open for the reception of visitors doring elec=
tion week. In ashort time-tte Cottuge will be
open for the season.,
57" The Frooklin House Baths, having been
put in excellent order, in clean and commodions
rooms, are now open to the pablic. They de
serve an extensive patronnge,
797" General Taylor has been nominated for
Prosident by a large meeting ot Balumore—tLut
it won't do, the Whigs have determined 10 play
“the old Harry' with the General's nomination.
£ A fine salmon was served up at the Farl
House on Wednesday—‘first appearance this
season'’, wea belicve,
Official <The official majority of Mr, Have.
meser, Demoerat, for mayor of New York, s
10565 that of Mr. Leonard, Democrar, for Almies
House Commissioncr was 4149,
THIRTIETI CONGRESS,
FIRST SASSION.
Moxnay, April 24,
Sexare.—=Mr Borland, a new Senator lrom
Arkansas was sworn snd took his seat,
Mr. Clurke subwitted a resolution instrueting
the comuittee on the hbrary to euguire wheihier
Washington's litrury was tor sale, and il so on
what terms sud as (o the eapedieney of its pur
chuse by goverumient, which was adopted.
Mr. (hlr presented a petition from citizens of
New Yoik praying for an investigation of Col,
Child’s conduet requiring soldiers under his com
mand 10 kneel before the Caibiolie Host, at Jala
g;- which was refeircd 1o the Committee on
Military Afliirs
A communication was read from the execntive
committee ol a public meeting, inviting the Sens
ate 1o Join i a French sympatny celebration, snd
was received.
A petition from many citizens of Philadelphin *
praying for the establishiment of a Post Route by
Rail roud tetween Philadelphia and New York,
was read a third time and passed,
A Wil for the relicf of John L. Graham Inte P.
M. of New York was read a third time and pass:
ed ; and then the Senate adjourned.
Housk. —Aun ineflectual aticmpt was made by
Mr. Cooke, to offer a resolation for meeting here
alter at 11 o'clock.
Several other motions were made on various
subjects, all of which were negatived ; and on
motion the House edjourued.
Torsoay, April 25.
Sexate.~A petition from cinzens of Philadel
phia for the establishment of a Post Route by
rail road between Philadelphia and New York,
in opposition to the c..m.r«n nnd Amboy Rail
road was received, and referred 1o the Commit
tee on Post Offices and Post Roads, alter some
discussion,
Mr. Cuss leported o bill for the porchase of
500 of Coli's repeating pistols for the use of the
army.
M: Bagby submitted a resolution of inquiry
for the causes of delay in the public printing, and
for the application of a remedy, which was adopt
ed
The uufinished business was taken up. and the
California claim bill being under consideration,
Mr. Mason addressed the Senate ut considerable
length, in reply 1o Mr Badger's remarks of a
former day, to which Mr, Dou‘l‘gu rejoined.
Mr. Benton contended that Congress had pow
er to appoint the kind of persous proposed fo be
selected as connmissioners,
Mr. Underwood obtained the floor, and pre
ceeded to speak, when, on motion the Senate
adjourned.
Housk.=The bill to admit Wisconsin as a
State was made the special order ol Ihe day for
Tuesday next.
The debate on Mr. Palfrey’s resolutions re
specting privileges of members &e., was resnm
ed, and alter sume dizcussion, was laid on the ta
ble=—yecas 130, nayw 42,
In committee of the whole the Senate bill re
versing the decision ol the Commissioner of Pen
sions on clains of soldiers for bounty lands was
laken up,
Mr. Thompson offered an amendment in favor
of granung bounty lands to the soldiers of the
last war, und spoke in fuvor of the b)l, Other a
mendments were offered. Mr. T'hompson re
sumed, and finished his speech, and then ‘the
House adjourned.,
Wenxesvav, April 26.
Sevare —Mr. Bell's resolation to furnish the
members of the House of Reprisentwives with
Repoits of the Senate's proceedings was taken
up, and he made a epeech inits favor. I was
discusssed by oithers. pro and con, and the gnes.
tton beinz taken the resolution was adog ted, yeas
206 nay« 15,
Mr. [ls e made an ineffectual attempt to get up
his bill to prevent riots in the Dist of Coluu boa,
The Senate proceeded to the order of the day,
which was the bill for the adjustinent of Califor
nia claims, and an smendment was otfered in that
part appoinung Col. Freemont a commissioner,
which occasioned a debate, in the midst of which
the Senate went into secret ses-ion for a short
thne, and opening«the doors, adjourned.
House.—A message was received from the
President communicating correspondence he
tween Gen. Scott and the Seeretary of War, and
the nsual number of copies were ordered 10 be
printed. -
Sundry bills were reported from varions com
mittees, read twice and referred (o the connmit
tee of the whole.
Mre. Bust reported a bill to repeal the act paws
ed by last Congress giving the President discro:
tionary power when the army shall be reduced
at the termination of the war, to retain old o
new generals,
A warm discnssion ensued, and the bill lie
over with others previously reported. The
[louse adjourned.
[By Magnetic Telegraph to the Journal.] |
Wasninaron, Thursday evenlng .
Hexare—Numerous petitions were presented.
Mr. Benton subinitted a resol .tion mstructing the Secpa.
tary of the Sennte to purchass 100 copies PParker s consti
tution and present the same in the name of the Benate 1o
Mr. Vattemare Adopted.
Mr. Clayton offered a resaluticn calling npon the Secre
tary of War for iuformation in relation to the public armo
ries wihere smull arms are manufactured, the number made
and the cost tu the government. Laid over,
Mr. Davis, irom the Committee on Commeree, reported
a bill from the House respecting the ventilation of passeung
ger ships,
Mr. Nileg, from the Committes on the Post Ofilce and
Post Konds, leported a bill from the Honge to amend the
nct pruviulmf for the trausportation of mails to foreign
countries, with amendments,
Mr. Bagley moved w take up the bill relating to pay
ments to the State of Alabama tor advances made to the
government during the Creek hostilities, which motion
was agreed to, :
Mr. Pierce offered an amendment making a general pro
vigion for such cases,
The subject was, on motion, lawd acide informally.
Mr. Badger’s resolution to purchase Brownw’s portrait of
Gen, Taylor was taken up
Mr. tHale moved to lay the resolution on the table,which
motion was lost. “T'he vote :tood, yeas 11, nays 19,
Mr. Cass was present but did not vote, which created
much laughter, e g
Mr. Hannegan offered on amendment, adding the por
traits of Washington, Jackson and Scott.
Afier much discussion the amendment was put to vote
and rejected.
M. Hale moved to amend the resolution by striking out
the names and inserting all Amertean generals,
A debate sprang up in which Messrs, Underwood, lan
negan, Badger, Alien and Dayton participated.
sir. Hale move | to lay the resolution on the table, which
motion was agreed to, yeas 21, nays 15,
Mr. Cass moved to take up the bill in relation to the Culi
fornia elaims, which motion was agreed to,
A debate ensued, in which Mesers. Mason, Clarke, Rusk
and Calhoun took part,
On motion the fenate ad,ourned.
Hovsk —The report of the printing committee respecting
Scott correspondence was taken up.
Mr Clingman being entitled 6 the floor, addressed the
House. He accused Mr. Marcy with u<ing Mr. Henley 1o
ralm upon the House and the country a deliberite faise
hood, in denying the suppression of Gen, Scott’s letters,
gnw produced. Ilv assai.ed Mr. Murcy and defended Gen.
cot'.
He was interrupted, on leave, and interrogated hy Messrs
MclLure and Hen'ey.
Mr. Stephens off red an amendment to the resolution to
include all the war correspondence together. Adopted.
Mr. hilliard offered an ame dment to exclude th. Mar
cy’s last letter, written four days after the House culled
for the correspondence. Lost
T'he resolution to print 10 000 copies was adopted, and
the House ad jourr ed.
In the Senate, Monday April 24th, un motion
of Mr. Clarke, it was
Resolved, That the President of the United
Stutes be requested to furnish to the Senate
copies of any corierpundence in the Departinent
of State with the American Chargé d'Affairs in
Portugal, in relation to the clavm of the owners
of the ghip Miles, Warren,in the State of Rhode
lsland, upon the Government of Portugal, for
payment of a cargo of oil taken by the officers
and applied 1o the nses of that Government.
Also, copres of any correspondence between our
Chargé and the Mimister of the Portnguese Go
vernment relating to the elaim for and payment
of said eargo, together with such papers as are
inthe Department substantiating snid elaim.
On motion of Mr. Clarke, it was
Resolved, That the Joint Committee on the 4
Labrary be and they hereby are directed o as.
certain from the present owner of the Library of
the late Gen Geurge Washington whether the
same is now fyr sale, of what number and value
are the books 1o said hbrary, and at what price
the same can be purchased by Congress.
Frow Saxra Fr, <Dates from Santa Fe to the Mih ulg
hve been received at 8t Lonis, Col, Ralls resigned come
mand to Col, wane at Bl Paso, on account of sick ness, e
Capt. Hatey had been ordered to Carrijal, to destroy ten
horse thieves, who bLad stolen fifty horses. Gov. Amije
was honorably acquitted. The rumors of Urrea's advanes
were unfounded. Col. Sime, trader, lnd escaped from
Chihunbina, Health of the troops good,
By Tetegraph from L Louis to P.utshurg we have cone
firmatory nccounts of a bat le fonght at Roziia, sixty miles
from Chilmahva, The Americacs were victo iins. The
Governor of Chiihmalinn, feurteen pleces of artillery and
arge number of priconers were taken by our forces. The
o in Kitled and wounded on bl sides is represented aw
heavy.,
ot <There was a row on Tuesday night last,
among some Irichmen wt work on the railroud
near Bronswick, in which one man was killod=-
hin brains literdly Leaten ont, The canee op
particnlars of the affray, our informant did nut
learn.<Portland paper,