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FROM THE JOURNAL.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
JUNE SESSION,
AT NEWPORT
Tuvrenay Arreryooyn, June 29
SENATE. —From the House—Petiuon of John
Gannan vs. creditors, Read and laid on the table,
Peution of Leonard C. Marble for diverce. Con
eurred.
Peuton of Catharine D. W, Dodge for divorce.
Concurred.
Petition of the Second Universalist Chuech, Pro
vidence, tor amendment of charer, Concurred,
Petinon of the l‘uwng Bank for reduction of
ital and other relief. Concurred,
“f‘cminn of Robert P, Lee, ecal., w take oath as
gurnishees. Concurred.
“}{UUEE.——Triul of the Docket of Private Pe
titiona,
Blackstone Canal Company for amendment of
charter ; cogginued to January scssion. Same ; ad
dinonal lt‘t’dn. do. John Gardner, et. al. va,
Blackstone Canal Company : do. do, Samuel
Ward, et al,, for Fishery in Charlestown ; contin
ved, Othniel Foster, et al,, for Pier Green Hull
Pond ;3 continued. John P, Nhearman, et. al., for
Fishery Point Judite Ponds ; stricken from the
docket. Charles Cross, etal, for Fishery Charles
town Ponds, &ec. ; continued. Citzens of New
gorl for amendment of Windmill act ; referred to
elect Committee. Report, Commissioners of the
North Kingstown Exchange Pauk ; referred to the
Committee on Corporations. Wi, Thurber, et. al.,
ve, Pawtuxct Tuiaike Company ;3 conunued, Ho
ratio Bassett, va. Act relating 1o Turnpike Com
wmvu i referred to Select Committee, Thomas
. Smith vs. creditors; continued, Thomas F,
Meson ve. ereditors ; eontinved, John Gannon,
ve. creditors ; granied and act psssed. Pardon
Davis, vs. ereditors ; continued. C. D'Wolf Dodge,
for divoree ; granted and act passed. Leonard C.
Marble, for divoree ; granted and act passed ; Rob
ert P. Lee, et al,, vs K«lam Mackie}; granted and
act passed ; Providence and Worcester Railroad
Company ve. Smithfield Turnpike (‘nmpang $
framed ana set reterred to the Committee on the
udiciary. Henry B, Arnold, vs. Jesse Brown,
Jr. i continued,
flr. WEEDEN introdueed an act in amendment
of an act regulating marriages and divorce—pro
viding that paupers and persons warned out of
any town shall not be permitted to be joined in
marriage or to gain a eettlement in any town by
marriage ; and that the issue of persons, if #o join
ed, shall be illegitimate,
Read and referred to the Committee on the Ju
diciary.
Memorial of Edward 8§ Wilkinson, Agent of
Providence and Pawtucket Turnpike, in relation to
encroachments on the same.
Received and referred to Committee on the Ju
diciary.
Mr. DAVIS, of North Pruvidonceb introduced
an act providing for the galary of the Coinmission
er of Public Sehools, making the salary fifteen
hundred dollars per annum,
The bill afier considerable discussion was passed.
Read a first time and passed to asecond reading ;
read a second time on same day.
Au act inamendment of an act in relation to the
support of the poor and cu-tml{}‘uf dangerous in
sanc, authorizing the Auorney General 10 sue the
towns or persons who refuse 1o pay the expenses of
their insane at the Butler Huupimg Read asecond
time and passed,
Report of R. W, Potter relative to airs on
cleck = office, Providence County. Rcr?cztrcd tw
Comumitiee on accounts.
Edward Mott, lbcrruscmmivc from New Shore
ham, had leave of absence for the remainder of the
sesaion,
Act in amendment of an act cstablishing Courts
of Common Pleas. This act gives 10 both plainuff
and defendant a like right of appeal.
B. H. Horton and G, C. Perry had leave to with
draw their sccounts agamst the State
Adjourned,
Frinay Morxina, June 30.
SENATE.—BiII in amendment of act establish
ing Courts of Common Pleas, read and referred to
Commaitiee on Judiciary.
Bill in amendment u{ncl in relation to the custo
dy, &c. of dangrerous insane persons, read and re
ferred to Committee on Judiciary,
Bill establishing salary of School Commissioner,
read and laid upon the table,
Petition of Kl Poud et. al. for incorporation of
the Woonsocket and Miford Railroad Company.
Concurred.
HOUNSE. ~Petition of Eli Pond et. al. for a Rail
road from Woonsocket 1o the norih line of the
State, 80 as 1o connect with a road from the line o
Milford. Granted and act passed.
LPetition of Sylvester Robinson et. al, for amend
ment of license law. The petitioners pray for the
resiriction of the sale of eider in the same way that
surong liquors are restricied. Received and referred
10 a eommiuee, consisting of Messrs. Bosworth
Whipple and Arnold.
M:. BROWN introdueed an act in amendment
“of an act enabling town councils o grant licenses
for rcu&hu{; nronf ligenses, &c. t'he bill pro
vides that the penalty for selling ligaor iu violag'wn
of the statute shall be twenty dollars instead of fifty
as is now the case; that Justices of the Peace shail
have exclusive jurisdiction of such oficnces, and
that the decision shall be final; one half of the
penalty (o go to the State and the other half to the
annp!ainum; and repeals all acts inconsistent with
IS,
Mr. HAZARD, of Providence, introduced a bill
in substance the sane as above, but more precise,
Both bills were referred to Messrs. Bosworth, Whip
ple and Arnold.
The order of the day, the bill relating to raising
a revenue for the State was called up.
Mr. CRANSTON called up an act introduced by
him at aprevious session, providing for taking an
estimate of all property rateable in this State,
Mr. WHIPPLE mived the indefinitec postpone
ment of the bill, and called for the ayes and noes,
and the vote resulted as follows :
AYES -Meossrs. A. F. Aldrich, G. Aldrich, Alien, E. An
tell‘ R. Angell, Austin, Barber, Bowen, Browu, Carr,
“hurch, Cozgeshall, Duna, W. D. Davis, Douglass, Fenuer,
Fiske, Gould, Gray, C. Hazard, Lilibridge, Mowry, Patter:
sou, Peckham, Porter, Reynolds, Rhodes, Sayles, Smith,
(‘s‘{3{?;”l;’. \‘\.r:u:rmnu. E. Watson, W, R. Watson, Welch,
Upple. 350
N(,'l‘:s ~Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Arnold, Bayley, Boy
den, Boswortl, Coe, Cransion, T. bavln, Dixon, I"Walf,
Farnum, Gavr., Gorhain, Greene, E. 0. Hazard, Hidden,
Hutchins, Manchester, Randall, Rathboue, Robbins, Shel
don, Speucer, Tourtellot, Turner, Ward, Weeden, —23.
The bills introduced by Mr. Bowen relative to
taxing the banks an additional eighth, and for al
tering the rates of exchange, were called up and
eeveral amendments provosed to them, and discuss
ed bv Messrs. WIHIPPLE, 'POl’l{Ti-II,L()T, -
WOLF, AMES, HIDDEN, BROWN, DAVIS and
HAZARD of Providence.
Mr. DAVIS, of North Providence, moved to in
definitely postnone the subject.
Mr. ALLEN moved an amendment to postpone
to January seszion.
Mr. HAZARD of Providence said that without
committing himecif either for or against the bills,
he should vote for the postponiment that members
might have time for reflection. 'l'nere were various
interests represented in the House, but if he could
read the signs of the times, when a tax shall be laid,
it will be worthy of Ruode lsland legislation, and
that a tax will be fairly and equitably laid.
The question being taken the vote resulted as
follows :
¥ AYES —Mesars. A F. Aldrich, Allen, E. Angell, Arnold,
Blyle{,, Boyden, Bosworth, Brown, Coe, Coggeshall, Cran.
ston, Dava, T. Davis, Dixon, Iluu‘glan. D'Wolt, Farnum,
Fenuner, Gavit, Gorhan, Greene, E. J. Hazard, Hiddeu,
Hutchins, Menchester, Mowry, Patterson, Peckham, Porter,
Rathbone, Reyuoids, Robbins, Sayles, Smith, Sheldon,
&mncer, Sprague, Tourtclioy, Turner, Ward, Watlerman,
eeden, Welch. —l3.
NOES. —Messra. G. Aldrich, R Angell, Anthony, Austin,
Barber, Bowen, Care, Church, W. D. Davis, Fiske, Gould,
Gray, C. flazad, Lilibridee, Randall, Rhodes, E. Watson,
w. i Watson, Whipple.—l 9.
Frinav Arrerxoox, June 30.
SENATE.—The Senate concurred in suadry
votes of the House,
HOUSE. —T'he Commistee appointed o nominate
& Commitiec (o inquire into the State Debt, reported
Messrs. William 12. Staples of Providence ; Jesse
Howard of Cranswon, aud George Turner of New
port, as said Comunuee ; which report was ac
'l‘be fullowing petitions were granted and acts
Petition of Joshua Hunt, for discharge of recog
nizance ;of James Tuarner, for remission of costs
and liberation ; of George W. E. Anthony, for
same ;of A. L. Mowry and wife, for =ale of real
estate; of Emuna B. Wardwell, for #ale of real estauwe;
of Thomas Wilbur, guardian, for sale of real estate;
of Henry Cushing, et al., for an act of incorpora
tion ; u(l.' nion Steam Mill Fire Engine Company,
for an act of incorporation ; of Elisha Olney, for
liberation.
An act milmrizinfi“'l‘uwn Councils w examine
gistry of voters, ad and passed.
"iq'mn of Commissioners on the North Kings
town Exchange Bank. Act passed.
Mr. ALLE!‘\' inuoduced a resolution authoriz
ing Wilkine Updike to appear as agent for the
Suate, before the Commiuec appointed w exmmine
into the Swate Debt. A motion was made 10 lay
the resolution ou the table, which prevailed by the
following vote :
AYES. Messrs E. Angell, Amold, luylcz‘ lo(vdon.
Bowen, Brown, Carr, Church, Coe, (,‘»?gu all, Cran.
slon, Dana, W. D Davis, Douglas, D Woll, Farnum. Fer,.
ner Giay . Greene, Widden, Irons, Manchester, Porter, Ray.
dall, Rathvone, Reynolds, hubfllu, Sayles, Smich, Bheldor,
W""" Tourtellon, Turner, Ward, Wateriaan, W. R
aon ' Weeden, Welch -8,
NOES. Mewsrs A ¥V Aldrich.G.Aldrich,Allen, R Angel),
Authony, Ausun, Barber, T. Davis, Dixon, Fiske, Gavy,
Gorham, Gould, € Hazard, E B Hazard, Hutehins, Lal
libridee, Patterson, Peckham, Kliodes, Spencer, E. Watson,
Whipple 23
Mr. BOWEN presented a resolution inetructing
the Committec on Finauee w bring in a bill at the
next session imipu-uw A \ax on nfi real and per
sonal property in this State,
Afier some further remarks the resoluton passed,
Me. WATSON, of Providence, then moved w
recede from the vore of thi- mworing, laying the
act “1w provide for waking an estimate of gl prop
erty rateable in this Swie,” on the table,
‘r. DAVIS, of North Providence, _moved that
the motion be laid upon the table, which was car-
ried as follows :
AYES - Messrs. A.F. Aldnich, E. Aldrich, Allen, E. An
gell, Amold, Ausun, Barber, Bosworth, Brown, bhurch,
Coe, Coggeshall, Dana, T Pavis, W. D Pavis, Dixon,
Douglas, Eanmm. Foenner, Ficke, Gray, Greene, C. Hazand,
E If Hazard, Mowry, Patterson, Peckham, Porter, Rey
nolds, Sayles, Smith, Spencer, Sprague, Tourteliot, ‘\'uwr
man, E. Watson, Weeden, Whipple 33,
NOES ~Meossra. Ames, R Angell, Anthony, Bayley, Boy.
den, Bowen, Cransion, h'\\'ull. Gorcham, &um Mdden,
Hutching, Litlibrudge, Manchester, Randall, ku hbone,
lU}mlfu. Robbins, Sheldon, Tumer, Ward, W, R. Watson,
-4,
William H. Sprague and Thomas Cousine had
leave to withdraw their petitions for liberation,
Daniel 8. Mowry, et al. and Jilson O'Riley, et
al,, and Job Anm-l{ had leave to withdraw their
acconnts ageinst the Siate,
Resolution from the Senate relative to the boun
dary line between Massachuserts and Rhode Island.
Read and concurred, with the addition of Messrs,
Bosworth, Dixon and Brown.
Repori of the Commitee, appointed to audit the
General Treasurer's accounts. . Read and accepted.
Aciin amendment of an _aet incorporating the
Providence Mutual Benefit Union, I{:-ml nn‘«:l res
ferced to the Committee on Corporations,
Adjourned.
Sarvanay Morxine, July 1.
SENATE.—~Mr. POTTER prescuted a resolu
tion extending the time for the town of New Shore
ham to raise it school money. Passed,
Committee on Judiciary recommended to coneur
with House on the appointing a committee on State
Debt, with amendmenis,
Several messages from the House with bills of
concurrence,
Senate concarred with aet amending license law,
Neveral sccounts allowed,
Adjourned. '
HOUSE.—~The pestion of James Shaw and
others of Newport, for amendment of windmill aet,
was continued until the next ses=ion, with order of
notice; and the operation of the act stayed, so far
~as the citizens of Newport are concerned,
‘ The pettion of Miner Reynolds, tor liberation,
was granted,
' Mr. BOSWORTH, ftom the gelect ecommittee to
whom was referred the act introduced by Mr. Haz
ard of Providence, amending the act authorizing
the sale of wines and strong hiquors, made a report,
rccunnnnmlmrr its passage. 'i'h(‘ act reduces the
meh‘v for eelling strong liquors without license
rom 850 to 820, and gives w justices of the peace
final and exclusive jurisdiction in the trial of the
same. The act was passed unanimously,
Mr. B()SWUR’I‘I'L from the gelect committee to
whom was referred the petition of sundry inhabi
tants of Wooneocket, praying that certain officers
may be authorized to enter and search the houses
of persone spuspected of selling strong liquors con
trary to law, made a report, recommending the pas
#age of the act ruw-nwd by the petitioners with
their petition. During the reading of the bill, on
motion of Mr. Boswordh, it was Eid on the wable,
The peution of Jaines Gleason, a conviet, pray
ing for remission of costs and liberation, was
granted., ek
I'he aceount of the committee appointed to super
intend the funeral of the late Major John R. Vin
ton, was postponed till next zession.
On the petition of the Providence and Woreester
Railroad, praying for leave to relocate that portion
of the Snmhfi)vl'r'l’urupikv intersected by said Rail
road, an act passed granting the same, under such
restrictions as the Supreme Court may impose,
Mre. BOWEN, from the Committee on Finance
submitted a resolution authorizing the Gc-m-rui
Treasurer to withdraw $16,000 from the deposite
fund, now loaned o the city of Providence and
town of Newport, and ngprnprinu: the same o the
current expenses of the State, The resolution was
#o amended as to authorize the General Treasurer to
hire that amount, and then passed,
The House coneurred in a resolution of the Sen
ate, authorizing the General Treasurer to renew a
note due froim the State to the Bank of North Ame
rica for 825,000, when the same shall become due.
On tlwlu-liliun of Condry McKenna, now con
fined in Providence county jail for slandering the
character ot Alfred Burke, an act was passed nfiuw
ing #aid McKenna to ke the poor debtor's oath
for the purpose of liberation.
Barzilllan Cransion, goardian of Mary Thurber
had leave w mortgage or sell the estate of his ward
for the purpose of pa ing her debias,
(Tth--(‘, Pratt, u{y\\rummn-lnnd, N. H,, con
fined in the jail in Providence for debt, the examin
in!_r magistrate having refused him the poor debt
or's oath, had leave w withdraw his petition for
liberation.
-~ Aun act in amendment of the act relative to the re
“moval of the poor, authorizing female children to
- be bound to the Children’s Friends’ Society in
Providener, was passed,
Au act was passed in amendment of the oyster
act, punishing persons convicted of gtealing oys
ters }'rum private beds, by a fine of $lOO, or one
year's imprisonment,
Ebenczer 8. Howard, of Hollydaysburg, Penn.
now confined in the jail in Providence for debt, had
leave to cite cerain ereditors to enablo him o take
the poor debior’s vath.
| An act passed authorizing the institution of legal
Cproceedings u‘:mn-t cerlimn persoas for encroach
) mtl:(nu upon the Providence and Pawtucket Turn
ike.
| v William Dickens and James H. Webb, praying
| for liberation from jail, had leave 1o withdraw their
I’ petitions,
. The petition of James D. Sherman, now confined
in jail in Providence, for theft, was continued until
the next seszion of the Assembly,
T'he Quartermaster General was direeted to take
possession of certain pruperlg belonging to the
Suie, lately held by the Khode Island Horse
Guards, =aid company having been disbanded.,
The House concurred in a resolution from the
Senate authorizing the General Treasurer to make
a distribution of the military tax among the several
military companies,
Messrs. Ames, Randall, and Arnold were appoint
ed a committee to revise the militia law.,
Messrs. Turner, Gould, and Davie of North Pro
videnee, were appointed a commiuee to make an
examination ufplhc- jail in Newport county, aud
report what alterations are needed for the belter ac
commodation of prisoners,
On wmotion of J&r. BOWEN; the several savings
institutions were dirocted to make certain returns
at the next gession of the General Assc-mhl?'.
A commitee was appointed to repair the State
jail in the county of W ashington, at an expense
not exceeding $5OO,
On motion of Mr. WHIPPLE, a committee waa
appointed to make an examination of the condition
of the jail in Kent county.
On motion of Mr. ByROWN, of Cuamberland,
;!;‘."fl) “i”c appropriated to repair the court house in
ristol,
An act passed g 0 amending the act incorporating
the city of Newport, as to authorize the election of
wardeus and clerks.
The House concurred in the act from the Senate
allowing the town of New Shoreham a longer time
than is now allowed by law to raise the necessary
amount to entitle it w receive i proportion of the
school fund.
The accountof Irish & Stevens against the State,
for oil, after having been reduced from more than
£lOO, 10 $4O 34, was allowed. The Senate havin
refused w concur, the House subsequently rewdcfi
from its vote and laid the account upon the wable,
Various accounts azainst the State were allowed
aud ordered to be paid, and sundry claimants had
leave to withdraw their bills,
At noon, the Go;-n’(-r'al-":\'mmbly adjourned to
meet in Bristol on the last Monday in October
next,
' Diasoricar Ovrrace.—~Last Saturday evening,
a little before cleven o'clock, some ruffian threw a
bottle of oil of vitriol through the open window of
the house No. 60 North Main street, owned by
| Misscs Man, and occupied by them and their
brothers. The bottle struck the chimney within a
: few feet of one of the ladies who was sitting on
the sofa. Fortunately and very singularly the
“bottle did not break, and no injury was done. The
- window, was open and persons were talking in the
i room loud enough to be heard in the street, and
there can be no doubt that the villain intended
' murder, or at least understood very well that mur
der wight be the consequence. This is the second
attempt that has been made upon the lives of the
inmates of thet house. We are astonished that
the first did not create a deeper sensation in the
community, and we trust that this will lead to the
most vigorous measures for detecting the®offenders.
Every citizen has a common interestin it. Thomas
Man is one of the complainants for violations of
the license law, and these repeated attempts are
naturally supposed to be connected with that cir
cumstance.~—Journal.
Tremendous Hail Storm.—A tremendous hail
storm passed over Sandusky, New-York, 224 ult.
It raged with remendous fury, completely cutting
down and destroying crops of all kinds, smashing
window glass and sash, m"ipping fruit, leaves, and
branches threeqquarters of an nch in diameter,
from the trees. In faet, it is said to have literally
wowed down everything, leaving some of the
farmers with n:am'c{y any resource, having lost
their entire erops by this fearful visitation.
Massacre of Three Missioners.—" The Sydney pa
pers of the 31st January, announce the murder of
three English missionaries at the island of St
Christoral, by the natives, in the month of Sep.
teber lust, and the hodies were afterwards eut
up and devoured by the savages. The English
attendants on them contrived (o effect their escape.
The U. 8. steamer Maria Burt, Capt. Riddle,
arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz, having sailed
on the 4th inst., came passenger, W, I, Polk.
Maujor 3d Dragoons, and bearer of despatches o
Washington.—N. 0. Pic., Junc 22.
By Mlail
: From the N. O, Delta of June 21,
LATER FROM MEXICO,
Evacuation of the City by the American
Troops.
The Roval Mail steamer Trent, Captain Nor
ton, arrived at Ship Island on Monday evening,
the 19th inst., at 6 ll'. M. She left Vera Cruz on
the Ilsth at 9P. M. We have received verbal in
telligence by the Trent to the 13th of June, from
the city of Mexico, and our correspondent from
Vera Cruz to the 15th, The last dll)\'ilifln of the
army, undcr Gen. Worth, whichhad been stationed
at ‘Tacubava, three leagues from the city, broke
up its quariers and marched through t{m city,
beinging up the rear of the army. Lomediately
after the departare of Gen. Warth, the oflicers of
Herrera's Government arrived near the eity, and
were escorted into it by the National Guards.
Some firing was heard at the time, which, it was
reported, arose from a confliet between the Na
tionsl Guards and the Leperos, the latter having
deelared their detenmination to overthrow the for
mer.
General Paredes was said to be in the eity of
Mexiweo,
There were encamped at Eneero, awaiting trans
portation, nearly 10,000 troops, consisting of Gen
ernl Lane’s division, Gen. Paterson’s Ist division of
volnnteers, and Gen, Mashall's 2d division, com
posed partly of regulars and volunteers. These
troops were enjoying fine health,
Sy out of the so-ealled “Ten Regiments” were
encamped at Rardinia, three miles beyond Jalapa,
on the National Road, under command of Col.
Morgan.
General W. O, Butler, was in command at Jal
apa. Troops were constantly arriving there, en
route for Vera Cruz.
The following regiments were to leave Encero
on the 16th for Vera Cruz, and would probably
ke transportation thence on the 21st or 2l
New York, Ist and 24 Pennsylvania, Massachu
setts, South Carolina, Georgia Battalion, two reg
iments of Ohioans, New Jorsey and the Distriet
of Columbia and Maryland Battalion. The South
Carolinians and Georgians were to sail for Mobile,
the others for New Orleans.
Capt. Tilghman's light artillery was to leave on
the 16th mstant, for this city.
A tram arrived in Vera Cruz from Eneero, on
the afternoon of the 15ih, and reported having
met an express at San Juan, going on to Encero,
to carry mtelligence that additienal transports a
waited them at Vera Cruz.,
The Trent got under weigh shortly after the
arrival of the British courier at Vera Cruz, leav
ing behind, it is said wore than a million and a
half of specie. Her Lasty departure is attributed
to naportant English intelligence from the city of
M(‘\Il’(l.
The health of Vera Cruz had improved. A
norther had been blowing from the Oth to the 14th,
an occurrence which has not happened at that
season of the year for more than a quarter of a
century.
Many of the invalid officers and men are repre
sented to have died on the march from the mteri
or, being unable to undergo the fatigues of the
Journey at this season.
Col. Sevier, our Commissioner, had arrived at
Vera Cruz, and taken passage in one of the gov
ernment steamers for this port,
Col. Dominguez and stal, of the Mexican Spy
Company, formerly in the employ of Gen. Scott,
had also wrrived at Vera Cruz, and were to leave
on the Marvia Buart. His soldiers, 125 in number,
were anxions to come to the United States, as
they had been maltreated, and feared the ven
geance of their countrymen,
$ : ~ Mgexico, June 13, 1848,
Gen. Worth and his division left the city yester
day, afler exchanging salutes, which were fired by
both parties beforc the Amerienn flag was taken
down, and afterthe Mexican flag was hoisted,-
All is tranquil, and the Mexicans appear to be per
fectly satisticd and happy, though 1 fear they will
not K'ng remain so. 8 :
! The Mexican papers confess that various out
rages have been porpetrated upon their count y
| women suspected of too intimate intercourse with
the American troops.
Gen. Rangel, of revolutionary note, has been
arrested by the Mexican Government as a sedi
tious person.
On the night of the 7th inst. an American ser
geant was murdered in a tavern in Mexico. His
assassination is variously attributed to Mexicans
and to members of his own company.
Gen. Kearny's division marched from the city
of Mexico the morning of the Gth inst. |
Letters from Zacatecas make mention of a
threatened incursion of 2000 Camanches into the
state of San Luis. This news of course excited
general terror.
THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION,
Tuursvay, June 29
Sesare.~Mr. Butler, Chairman of the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, reported the hill from the
House, extending the jurisdiction of the State of
Texas to the middle of the Sabine river, which,
after debate, was read for the third time and final
ly passed.
&lr. Phelps, of Vermont, held that slaves conld
not be carried to Oregon, it being free territory,
without their becoming emancipated. He con
tended that they were property no where out of
slave-holding States, {thn f;e had concluded,
Mr. Mason rose to speak, but gave way to a mo
tion for the postponement of the question, and
will have the floor for to-morrow.
Mr. Atherton, of New Hampshire, moved to
take up the bill for making appropriations of for
tilieations, which was agreed to.
Mr. Underwood, of Kentacky, moved an a
mendment in favor of appropriating $50,000 for
repairing the coffer dam in the Ohio river, neor
the Cumberland river; which was lost by yeas
and nays, as follows: yeas 9, nays 29, 'l'{w hill
was thew read a third time and passed.
Mr. Benton moved that the Senate go into ex
ecutive session, which was agreed to ; when afler
a short time spent therein, the doors were open
ed, and the Senate adjourned over till to-morrow,
Friday.
House.—Mr. Smith, of Indiana, submitted a
bill to surrender to Indiana the portion of the
Cumberland road within that State. The bill was
discussed by several members, and after being
read twice, was referred to the Committee on
Roads and Canals.
Several Senate bills were then taken up, which
were read a third time and passed.
Mr. Vinton, of Ohio, moved that the House re
folve itsell into a committee of the whole, Mr.
Root, of Ohio, in the chair, when the general ap-
Yroprimion bill was taken up. Mr. Polloek, of
‘ennsylvania, being entitled to the floor, spoke a
gainst the administration [‘p‘uli(:,v.
Mr. Frendh, of Kentucky, followed on the terri
torial question.
He was followed by Joseph R. Ingersoll, of
Penusylvania, who gave way 1o a motion in favor
of the committee’s rising, which was earried, when
on wotion the House adjourned to Friday.
Sexare.~Mr. Westeott, on leave, introduced
a bl for the l",mplcamcm of a Government
Nteamer to earry the Mail along the Coast of the
United States. Read twice, and referred to the
PPost Otlice Commitiee.
Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, presented a resolu
tion ealling upon the Secretary of War for infor
mation in regard to the necessity of fortifying
Procior’s Landing for the defence of New Or-
Jeans.
"T'en thousand additional copies of Lieut. Fmo
ry’s notes on the route to California were ordered
to be printed.
Mr. Dix introduced a bill for the Repeal of the
Present Pilot Laws, and advocated its passage.—
Laid aside informally. )
Mr. Dayton is to speak on the subject to-mor-
Tow,
After the passage of some private bills, the Sen
ate adjourned.
Houvsg.~After the transaction of some unim
portant business, the civil and diplomatie appro
priation bill was taken up in committee of the
whole.
Mr. J. R. Ingersoll made a party speech in
which he noticed some of Mr. Polk's appoint
ments for Foreign Missions and advocated the
claims of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency.
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, also made a
speech of a party character.
Mr. Bocock spoke of the rights of Territories.
Mr. Manu replied and made an eloguent speceh
when the committee rose and reported progress,
Afier the passage of a few unimportant bills the
House adjourned.
Three negro women, belonging to B. P. Glas
sock, of Black River, La., were struck by light
ning during a severe thunder storm. They f-ml
tden refuge under a tree. T'wo of them were
immediately killed, while the third is not expected
10 survive.
Michael Wheelan recently convicted in W heel
ing, Va., of the murder of hus wife, is to be hang
ud,on the st of September.
s -« SESSEERER 2L SR e =
Kextueky.—Extraet from a letter from Smith
land, Ky., dated June 15th, 184% ;
“T'he names of Cass and Butler are all power
ful with us. The Ol First (Lynn B(»)J‘u Dis
trict) will roll up 3500 wmajority in Avgust and
November next—looo more than usnal. The
“Rough and Readv cock” won't fight here, on
cither side of the Ohio. When General Taylor
accounts for the 2000 poor boys who eame t{om
the mountains, and other healily paits of the Uni
ted States, and were allowed 10 rot on the pesti
lential banks of the Rio Grande, lust snnnner, it
will be time enough to deily him. His friends un
«lur-u-timw{ho American people, by supposing
they ean Beanht by anciber clip-trap, with the
coon-skin war of 1910 .0 el on their minds,—
It was Mmy Van's unpopularity that beat us
then, and exoreised Geoeral Hareison into a hero.
I elaim cuufidemly, for Cass and Butler, 18 States,
with the chance in his favor for New York, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,
and Florida, 1 eannot coneeive what State Tay
lor can carry, by the shin of his teeth.”
In Trravois, says a demoeratic paper of that
Stute, the prospect of the whig Y:m_\' is most de
plorable, and the managers will notbe able to
make even a respectable “show of fight” in the
approaching canvas«. With no leader aronnd
whom they can all rally on the presidential ques
ton, split up in the north and south into factions,
composed of Taylorauen, Clay-men, Scottanen,
Wilinot proviso-men, and vote-yourselfa-farm
wen, some for retaining the old principles of the
federal party, and others denonncing them as
“obsolete ideas”—-with no organization in their
ranks, without any regular candidaies for govern
or and other State ottices—=they are approaching
a campaign in which they must meet, in pitched
hattle, the invincible hosts of democracy marching
forward with fixed bayoneis, in close order, to
glorious victory. So conscions are they that a
humiliating defeat awuits them, that no” regular
nominations will be made except in a few coun
tes i the State,
Goon News rrom Onlo.—Colonel WELLER is
carrying everything before him in Ohio. His
speeches are ficunl by great erowds, and his op
sonent, Mr. Forp, shrinks from the coutest. The
bcmocmu are united wpon the war and upon
Cass and Burrexr, and as the gallant Colonel has
rendered good service npon the field, his views are
always eloquently expressed, and eagerly listened
to. We should not be astonished, from the pres
ent appearanees 1o «ee Ohio giving as much ma-
Jority for the Dewocratie candidates as good old
Penngylvania, Look ont for a hold and powerful
blow for the great cause from the Buckeye State !
Tue Merriva or liie Asri-Tavror Waias,
in Tremont Temple last evening, was very fully
attended. Williain R. Spoomner, Esq., was ap
pointed president, and made an carnest address
upon taking the chair. Joshua R, Giddings was
then introduced, and spoke as on previons ocea
sions during his present visit to the north. His
allusion to “the evidence of General Taylor's
sound whig prineiples,” which Abbott Lawrence
keeps in his breeches pocket, took the highest
}m-mimn of cheering and clupping. He spoke an
wur and three quarters,
Charles Suwinner was next called fur, and, after
submitting a resolution, made o short address,—
Henry Wilson, of Natiek, being called ont, said
he would nyeuk at the adjourned meeting to be
held next Friday night. A vote ot thanks to Mr.
Giddings was passed.—Boston Post, 1.
Avoruer “Fizzre Ovre.”—The Taylor ratifi
cation meeting at the Capitol in Albany, on Tues
day evening, was a duplicate of the atfair here .~
It was decidedly on Jm “Canal street plan.”—
The praises of General Taylor fell stll-born from
the lips of the Whig speakers, and it is stated in
the ;{rguu that (h-lwmrlmnlic Coombs was glori
fying the candidate of the Philade!phia Conven
ton, the meeting rvamovsed and left the orator
without an audience.~N. Y. True Sun.
How e Treasoy Works.—T'he New York
Tribune has this appeal to the Clay whigs :
“Since there “is no longer a reasonable hope that
a second “whig candidate, thoroughly and openly
committed “to free soil, can be ehosen President,
“why should not the whig dissenicrs from “Gen.
Tnyl::r give their votes at once to Mr. “Van Bu
ren !
The Great Norihweest Abandoncd.—The whig
gathering at Philadelphia, called a national conven
tion, abandoned enirely the whole northwest,—
This great section of the Union, an empire in it
self, was entirely overlooked, wampled upon, put
under foot! Well, be it so—be it sO. And let
every voter in the northwest remewber it, and re
buke the treason by voting for Lewis Cass, one of
the rimuwrn of ihe northwesi, who has endured
all the privations aud hardships of a frontier lifo—
and to “whose energies more than any other man
now living, this great northwest ovwves its now
proud position.— Wisconsin paper.
Whig National Convention.—'l"he Roxbury Ga
zett, a Whig Free Soil paper, says it would be a
disgrace to ratify a momination there obtained,
even if' the omuf‘n'al:nle Wias in every respect unex
ceptionable. But the whigs have a still heavier
burthen to support; General “Luylor .pits at their
nomination, so far as they assume for it a party
character, and they are left to supplicate in vain
the privilege of crwling once wore upon their
faces in hmnble dovotion to another proprietor
and consumer of lmman Leings. “Thou art in
deed tullen.”—Boston Twoes,
Vermont.~The pronunciamento of the Hon.
Horace Everett of his “uncompromizing hostility
to the election of General Tayvlor —the refusal of
the Montpelier Watchman, the leading whig or
gan in Vermont, to put up his nune—the same
“non-contest” or combattant position of the Wind
sor Journal, the Nessenger at Bt. Albans, and oth
er staunch whig papers, show in what condition
for a contest is the hitherto whig banner State of
the Green Mountains.
Ouio.~ln the 21 congress distriet all the whig
papers oppose the nomination of Taylor. A
great “free territory” meeting was held at Raven
na, on Saturday. Darius Lyman, whig candidate
for governor in 1832, and Clay clector in 1544,
presided. s,rmech«s were made by D. R. Tilden,
ex-member of congress, vnd delegate to Philadel
,)hm, and others. Similar meetings have been
wld in other counties of Ohio.
lows.—The lowa State Gazette hails the nomi
dation of Cass and Butler with joy, coufident that
under sach leaders the democracy of the Union
can and will march onward to certain victory,
“lowa (says the Gazette) will be in at the great
coon-skinning on the 7th of Novewbernext. Set
her down 1500 scalps.”
Groraia.~This State is musiering her demo
crat forces strong in favor of Ciss und Burosn,
The State convention was holden in Milledgevil
le on the 215 t of June, and an electoral ticket was
adopted. A mass ratification meeting is to be
Imlclo-n at the Stone Mountain, August 15,
Frivay, June 30
Viraivia.—=The democracy of Richmond have
had a noble rally, and were addressed hy W, W,
Crump, Giles und others. Mr. Cramp crumpled
whiggery so that it can hardly smooth itsell by No
vember.
New York.—~Many of the counties have al
ready had enthusiastic democratic mnss meeting+
to ratify the £ass and Burvex ticket, and to stand
by the Union against all sectional parties and dis
organizers,
Coming Orer.—At a ratification Cass meeting at
Lexington, Ky., on the 12th inst., several gentle
men who once had taken part in a meeting last
fall, to nominate General Taylor, now attended to
rutil'( Cass’” nomination. Among them was Rob
ert W, Wicklifle, Sr.
Character of Gen. W. 0. Butler—Major Gaines,
at the whig mecting at Roxbary on Wednesduy
night, delivered a beantiful eulogiom on the
character of Gen, Butler, our candidate for vice
preident. He said he was one of the purest,
most_high-minded, upright, and brave men to be
found in the country.
The Rochester Advertiser—a Van Buren print
~tells the whigs, on suthicient evidence, that Gen
eral Taylor is in favor of the extension of slavery,
not agamst it, as some northern whigs have the
assurance to pretend.
Maine stands strong, impregnable, and wrue to
her sterling democratic character. T'he extreme
corner state of the Umion, will respond by 10,000
majority to the democratic national no mination.
The Whigs of Ashtabula Co., Ohio, have held
a meeting, and repudiate Zachary Taylor,—
Ashtabula has Leen called the Whig banner
Comnty of Ohio.
The Burlington Vi. Free Press, whig, tells the
convention that, in rejecting Clay, they
s v e thrown a peatl away,
Richer than «1 thelr tribe.”
Politcal.
Pennsyleanian,
Republican Hevald.
PROVIDENCE,
Tuesdny, July 4, 1848,
Democratic Nominations.
FOR mu:.-um:‘.\"r OF THE UNITED STATES,
4
LEWIS CASS,
OF MICHIGAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
WILLIAM O. BUTLER,
OF KENTUCKY.
WILL TUHE SOUTIH DO ITS DUTY?
| T'his is an important question at the present mo
“ment—the question whether the South will stand
by the men who stand by the Constitution and the
| Union, or leave them to find support only or chief
‘ly inthe North and West. ‘l'ic Democratic party
at the Norih stands where it has always stood, and
will fight its battles now, as it ever has, on the
’ broad platform of its fathers. It will frown upon
any attempt to alienate one portion of the coun
try from the rest. It will stand by the compro
mises of the Constitution in good faith. It points
to its principles, to the past, and to its men, as ev
idence of its honesty and its earnestness. It has
not sonught to shuflle its principles out of sight, or
to preach one doctrine here while another was
preached by its friends in the South; but has bold
ly proclaimed its position, and the course it will
pirsne. It has thrown sectional issues and local
questions to the winds, and spurned the few of
their former friends who woald counsel them a
l gainst the rights and interests of the South. Tt is
doing battle manfully, and will give a most glori
ons account of its labors on the 7th of November
next. It will earry for Cass and Butler, if we ex
,n-pt the doubtful State of New York, every State
in the North and West which gave its vote for
Polk and Dallas in "44; and besides these, it will
redeem Ohio and Connectient, and probably some
two or three others of the Northern family. It
bids fair to prevent the election by the people of
a single Whig elector in New England, and will
i assuredly march to the line of Southern States
~with as fair a front as it has presented since the
times when the patriot Jackson led it to victory.
1t will do its duaty, and its whole daty ; not throngh
| deception—not hy dodging the issue presented—
l but openly and boldly, and upon the broad plat-
I form of the great national party.
- Will the South do as well? Wil it stand by
l the friends of the Union? Will it stand by itself?
| Or will it throw itself to destruction, and endan
| ger our national existence, by embracing Zachary
"Paylor and Millard Filimore, and with them the
Whig party of the North—the same Whig party
iwhirh in New ITampshire elected John P. Hale
(to the U. 3. Senate, and in Massachusetts pro
| elaimed that it would withdraw from the Union if
Texas were allowed to become one of the North
Awmericgn States 1 It is notorious enough that the
Whig press at the North is preaching the aboli
‘ tionism of Taylor, as a means of conciliating voters.
| It avows that he is against the extension of slave
Ewrriun-y—-vlmt he was opposed to annexation—
that he decwed the war unjust on our part, and
, unwillingly took a part in it—that his feelings are
altogether against the slave institution, and that he
‘will not veto a bill even for the abolition of slave
ry in the Distriet of Colombia. The South may
know that all this is base deception ; but we ask if
iLis willing to trust itelf in the hands of the party
! practising it—a party which depends on abolition
s and treason in the North to assist it to make a
show ol opposition 1o the Democratic candidates ?
We ask Louisiana and Florida and Kentucky and
Tennessee, as well as Mississippi, Alabama, and ‘
Miscouri, if they are willing to throw themselves
into the arms of such a party, and trust in Gen. 1
Taylor alone to save them 7 Are they willing to |
increase the jealousies of the North fifty fold, by |
deserting Gen. Cass for no other reason than be- |
cause he does not reside in a Southern State, and
voting for Taylor for no other reason than that he
was born and has lived at the South? We have |
confidence that they will not do it; yet it may be |
proper to say to them that they are expected to do it ‘
by Northern Whigs. If they mean not to do it, |
they should show speedily their determination by |
the most vigorous action. Northern l)cmocmu!
believe that the perpetuity of the Union depends '
on the success of the Democratic party of the na
tion. "They are willing to labor for the triumph i
of that party—but not alone. They will insist |
that the Nouth shall do its duty in 134%, if it would
be trusted to do itin 1852, If the South refuses |
its votes for the candidate of the party now, it can- |
not expect that the North will ever afterwards in- ’
vite it to join in the nomination or election of a
mational candidate. The North will maintain it.-1=
present ground, undoubtedly, so long as the Un- ‘
ion continnes ; but it will sooner depend on itself,
than court the aid of such as are fickle and false—
as are willing to desert the only standard which
offers them protection ; for the sake of party ties,
or to show their devotion to a military hero—and
that hero brought forward without any declaration
of principles on his part, or the avowal of any by
those who claim to be his friends. We speak
plaialy, but truly, when we say that the South
will try a dangerous experiment, when it shall at
tempt the election of such a man over the Demo
cratic nominee—when it shall conunt upon North
ern votes to sustain it and its institutions while it
is carrying out such fancies. T'he North has ask
ed only for fair play. It has never asked—so far
as the Democratic party is concerned, it certatnly
has never asked, for the nomination or election o
a man because he lived at the North or entertained
Northern views. It has uniformly cast all sec
tional feeling aside, inselecting a presidential can
didate, and offered only such men as stood on the
national platform. Such a man has now been
nominated: if the South does its duty by him, all
will be well. 1f it elects Gen. Taylor over him,
it may make up its mind to depend on Whiggery
for suppori, for in that case it can never again
have the votes of Northern Democrats. If Gen.
Taylor is clected to the Presidency, the South will
have had its President for the last time !
We are not crouking, or despairing, or doulht
ing. Certainly we are not uttering threats. We
are but saying what is prompted within us by
recding in Southern Whig prints that Gen, Tay
lor is to receive the votes of the Southern States.
We do not believe their assertions. We do not
believe he can get South Carolina, or even Lou
isiana. But they are elaimed for him, with other
of the States we have mentioned above. There
ought 1o e no good grounds for the elaim—not
even a sand foundation for a pretension so preju
dicial to the existence of the Union. And the
South owes it to herself to dispel every doubt and
every fear by a hearty union upon our candidates
==a union without striect regard to old party lines,
and which shall at once erush the Whig hope
which has been kindled at the North "This is her
duty. Will she do it?
The whigs of Ashtabula, the banner county of
Ohio, held a large connty meeting, and repudiated
the nomination of Gen. T'aylor.
FOR THE HERALD.
THE WHIG NOMINATION,
The mortifieation and disgust with which, as a
general thing, the result of the Philadelphia Con
vention is received by the Whig party in the free
States, is ominous of the defeat which cannot fail
to await o ucket, thus forced upon a party against
the wishes of three-fourths of its members. The
glaring inconsistency with previous professions,
thus manifested, has opencd the eycs of thousands,
who had begun to believe the Whigs sincere in
their declarations of hostility to the institution of
slavery, and its further extension over the terri
tory of the Union.
The Whig Press in the free States, without ex-
—— = —— - ]
ception, has for the last three years, teemed with
denunciations of the Democracy, for their alleged
subserviengy to Southern dictation. They have
asserted over and over again, that, as a party, we
lncked the manliness to resist the encro’uchnmnu
of the slave owners upon the rights and interests
of the laborers and capitalists of the free States;
and were ready at their bidding, to sacrifice every
thing to their peenliar institution.
Unfounded and slanderons as for the most part
these charges and assertions have been, yet they
have been repeated day after day, and year after
year, until the people were, to some extent, gulled
into believing that a party thus loud in its indig
nation against slavery and its influence, must
themselves be pure, and undefiled by the accursed
institution. The proceedings of the Philadelphia
Convention have now dispelled the temporary il
lusion, and exhibited the Whig party in its true
colors,
Never, in any convention of any party, assem
bled for the purpose of nominating candidates for
the highest offices under the constitution, were
Southern dictation and Northern subserviency so
openly manifested, as in the late Philadelphia Con
vention. The Southern section of the party for
ced upon the Convention a man, whose nomina
tion was of itself’ an abandonment of every prin
ciple which had before characterized the Whig
party, and was in fact, as asserted by a member of
the Convention, a virtual disbandment of their
party organization. So complete was their con
trol of the proceedings of the Convention, that the
delegates from the new States were not allowed
even to speak in opposition to their peenliar insti
tution, and its further extension over free territo
ry, but were invariably ruled out of order by the
Chairman, when they approached the subject.
What the Whigs in the free States may feel
called upon to do at this crisis=-whether they will
sustain their representatives in their submission to
such dictation, and emulate their example by sup
porting the candidate thus forced upon them, re
mains to be seen. It is true that much dissatisfae
tion and many signs of rebellion are ohservable
among them now, but whether their leaders may
not succeed in driving the refractory ones into the
traces eventually, and thus fulfil the behests of their
Southern masters, time alone can determine.
However this may be, the Democracy should
; not rely upon the divisions in the ranks of their
~opponents to secure the success of their candi
~dates in the coming contest. We need no such
aid. Were the Whig party united as one man
~upon their eandidato, be he who he might, yet if
the Democracy of the country but do their duty,
(as I doubt not they will do it,) our success is as
certain as the day of election comes.
" The difference between the two parties at this
time, may be very briefly stated. , It is simply
this: We contend for prineiples, our opponents
for men. 'We labor, not for the clevation of this
“or that man to power and station, but for the suc
cess of great principles and measures which our
candidates are pledged to sustain. The senti
ments of our candidates npon all the great ques
tions of public policy are well known-—=whereas,
the Whigs are striving to secure the election of a
man, whose opinions upon the wost important
public measures, are utterly unknown to those
whom they call ugion to support him,
We seek by sustaining the great Democratic
measures, which the present administration has
been so eminently successful in establishing, to
benefit the condition and increase the happiness
and prosperity of the masses—our opponents seek
only to elect Gen. Taylor, that they may be re
warded for their devotion to his interest, by pla
ces of power and profit, which they hope to ob
tain at his hands.
Between these two can any one, much more
any Democrat, hesitate? On the one side clear
and well defined principles, on the other selfish
and heartless ambition.
The response, which, in November next, the
people shall make at the polls, will show to the
Whigs that their artifices are in vain, and that they
must be content to remain in a hopeless minority,
whether they appear as the advocates of Federal
principles, or as a party without principies or
measures. YOUNG DEMOCRACY.
£V We issue this number of our paper on the
anniversary of’ our nation’s birth-day—one of the
proudest days in the history of the world, and the
most glorious, certainly, in the history of our
country. We have always held that the day
ought to be celebrated, with all the evidences of
Joy and thankfulness. We have repeatedly urged
upon our city fathers to remember the day by a
liberal appropriation for a public display, fire
work, &e. They have not heeded us, this year,
and we are to make but a sorry display of liberal
ity and patriotism. We are to have no oration,
for the disgraceful reason that no church can be
procured in which to deliver it; no fireworks, for
the reason that the Board of Aldermen would not
concur with the Conncil in making the necessary
appropriation. So we go. The whole State was
putin motion to bury a brave man who fell in a
; war which our whigs have denounced in the
strongest terms—it is said, because he was an Al
| gerine. The Declaration of American Independ
ence has got no Algerineisin in it, and was writ
l ten by a “villainous Dorrite ;" of course its bisth
day eanno® be celebrated here.
U@ It was stated, says the New York corres
pondent of the Pennsylvanian, writing from New
York, about the Clay meeting in that city, by one
of the Secretaries, that a letter has been received
from Mr. Clay, condemning in toto the Taylor
nomination. If the “Old Harry” is in favor of
this know-nothing nomination and means to give it
his cordial support, why have the Whigs not made
it known. It begins to look as it the old horse
really intended to kick.
¥ Are not our friends of the Boston Pos;
making too much of a little thing in noticing the
treachery of young Morton? Like another lost
sheep mentioned in that standard work “Mother
Goose,”
“Let him alone and he’ll soon come home,
With his tail a hanging behind him.”
9" The Whig-Algerine Taylorites had a Con.
vention in Newport, on Thursday last, for the
purpose of nominating presidential electors. "'hat
staunch old Democrat, Stephen Branch, presided,
and the following were selected as electors: Wm,
Sprague, of Warwick ; George (. King,of New
port; Juwes T, Rhodes, of Providence ; Rowse
Babeock, of Westerly.,
t¢" The Democrats of Hartford have had a
glorious ratification meeting, and the nomination
of Cass and Butler is highly satisfactory to the
Democrats of the land of steady habits. Connect
ieut is onc of the States that will not go for the
“no-principle” nominee.
Tur Corp Suovrpen.—lt seems that Gov. ‘
Dodge will not stay, fox-like, in bis hole, although
the Utica Convention has evidently desired that
he should imitate the Kinderhook eandidate in this
respect. What's to be done? Won't Giddings
run? But let us see what Gov. Dodge says.
Here is his “Card,"” as published in the Union.
A CARD,
I have seen in the published proceedings of the
convention at Utiea, &aw York, that m{ name iy
put in nomination for Vice President of the United
NStates, on the ticket with My, Van Buren. No
information has been given to me by the conven
tion, or its order, of tfxis nomination, and I have
waited some days for that information, as fitrnishe
ing the suitable occasion for making my answer.
But, beginning to doubt whether uny such eom
munication will be made, and secing my name
laced in many papers as a candidate for !g’e Viee
&’rcnidmu'y, by virtue of that nomination, I deem
it proper to delay no longer, and to declare at .
once, and in this public mauner, my inabiligy to
accept it. The State to which 1 belong, was rep
resented in the Baltimore Convention; the vote
of that State was given to Messrs. Cass and But
ler; they were nominated ; and s one of the eiti
zens of that State, that nomination immediately
received my cordial coneurrence and support, and
will eontinue to do so.
I have long been the friend, personally as well
as politically, of Mr. Van Buren, and under other
circumstances, would he proud to have my name
associated with his in any way ; but the aceeptance
of this nomination is impossible ; and I have to re
quest the members of the convention, and the
public, to receive this declination as my answer,
and to excuse this mode of making it—{ming the
only mode which the want of a communication
from the convention leaves open to me.
Hexky Dovce.
Washington City, June 29, 1543,
At the annual meeting of the Rhode Island
Peace Socicty, the following persons were elected
officers for the year ensuing, viz.:
John Howland, President.
Rev. Edward B. Hall, Henry Cushing, Rev.
Tames N. Granger, Vice Presidents,
Hugh H. Brown, TYeasurer.
Stephen S Wardwell, Corresponding Secretary.
John H. Hamlin, Recording Seeretary.
Gamaliel L. Dwight. Varnum J. Bates, Stephen
Arnold (8. C.), Whiting Metcalf, Rev. SumucYOU
good, Rev. John P. Cleveland, Gilbert Congdon,
Trustees.
9" I. Rowe & Co, are the agents of the far
famed China Tea Company. The proprictors of
this flourishing establishment are self made men,
mounting the lndder of fortune step by step. By
enterprise and dilligence they huve suceeeded in
getting up a good business, and may justly be
considered the founders of the newspaper and
periodical trade here. In adding to this the Pack
age Tea business they have given another instance
of their sagacity and we wish them success.
U 7 The Clay whigs of Wyoming county, New
York, have had a large meeting, and have dec'ar
ed themselves “straight-out” against the Taylor
nowination. This is a fair sample of the “whig
harmony"” thatis extending itse!f all over the State.
7 Some scoundrel moved the switch at the
depot in this city on Saturday last, by which a por
tion of the steamboat train from Stonington run
off the track, fortunately no damage to life or limb
ensued. ,
%" An Irishman, named Patrick Dungan, was
drowned in the Cove, while bathing on Sunday
last. He leaves a wife and three children.
U 9 Leander Washburn, aged 19, was instantly
killed in Boston on Saturday last, by the bursting
of a soda fountain which he was charging.
{7 A fire in Congdon street, on Saturday night
last, was extinguished before much damage was l\
done. |
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% Hon. Thos. Metcalfe, whig succeeds Mr.
Crittenden as U, 8. Senator from Kentucky.
"% The Post-Office will be open this day from
64 to 104 a. m., and from 44 to 7 p. m,
From the N, Y.‘Evoning Post.
How 1t was Dosg ?—The “Conunercial Ad
vertiser” of last evening says that trath compels it
to admit that the opponents of the object for which
the Canal street meeting was called were in the
majority in the early part of the evening, but that
the “Taylor-men” soon “rallied in force and put
them down.” How was it done ! Cerwinly not
by numbers—as c\'er’v unprejudiced man who
was present will not hesitate to affirm that there
was a clear majority of “Clay Whigs" there trom
the commencement to the end of the meeting.
But a band of hired bullies, headed by Bill Ford
aud Yankee Sullivan, was turned in upon us,
with orders to “smash” and “kick out” every man
who dared open his mouth against the swindle.
The ““Taylor demagogues” knew they were mak
ing npon the whigs, Ix attempting to send it abroad
that they had ratified the nominatuon of Gen. I'ay
lor.
The assertion that the opposition at the meeting
come from “loco focos" is *ulse, and known to be
80 by those who utter it. The dissenters were
old, long-tried, and well known whigs, who are
unwilling to barter Henry Clay and their prinei
ples for “availability” and “expediency ;" and I
can assure the “Taylor men” that they will see a
demonstration from the whigs in less than twenty
days that will astonish them, and let the people
abroad know where the mass of the party stand.
The whigs of New York can never be dragooned
into support of Gen. Taylor.
“A CLAY WHIG.”
Louisiana.—The NeW Orleans Delta, a neatral
print of high character, says :=“As far as our ob
servation extends, the contest will be a strictly party
one. 'The Democrats who were disposed, at the
beginning to sanction the nomination of Gen.
Taylor as an independent candidate, have all, or
nearly all, fullen vack into the ranks f their poriy.
T'here is no ground, therefore for apprehension
that the contest will turn on other than the regular
issues between the parties.” This is virtually
conceding the State to Cass and Butler.
WHIG CREED. 3
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
Q.—Are you n favor of a "T'arifi'?
A.—DPalo Alte !
Q.—What do you think of a Bank of the Uni
d States ?
A.—Resaca de la Palma ! !
Q.—How abont the public lands ?
A.—Monterey! ! !
Q.—What are your political principles ?
A.—H-u-r-r-u- for oid Zack!!!!
The way it’s to be done
F7Vith MOXEY and RUM,
Said a prominent whig the other evening, after
being pressed hard on the inconsistency of sup
porting Gen. Taylor, £*Give us MONLY and
RUM enough, and we'll eleet him any how.”—
T'he most desperate means will be resorted to, we
doubt not, o eilect their object. Let the temper
ance portion of the cmmmmit{v awake ere it s too
late, and frown with indignation upon cvery ut.
tempt to revive the scenes of drunkenness and de
bauchery that characterized the acts of the whig
party in 1840, &
The Pe:,'plo of Maine will see, in the appoint
ment of W. J. Graves to be U. 8. senator from
Kentucky in place of Mr. Crittenden, a revsarka
ble sign of the times. It was Graves who killed
Mr. Cilley, a representative in congress from
Maine, because l\'r. Cilley refused to acknowl
edge Jas. Watson Webb to be a gentleman =
Boston Post.
The name of Cass is oynon_}:;fiolus with war,—
He has been looked npon for many years as a war
partizan.— Boston Journal.
Taylor, on the other hand, is a distinguished
civilian, who has filled the archives of the country
with proofs of his profound knowledge as a states
man and diplomatist.— Boston Post.
H rrid Accident—Seven Persons Killed At
Springwater, Livingston county, N. Y, afew *
days since, a number of men were engaged with
piaeo. in the act ol raising a house ; two boys were
wrestling near by, and one of them wus violently
thrown to the gionnd. s futher, who was en
gaged on the frame, sceing his son prostrated,
went to his assistance, and it was a-cermmed that
the boy's meck was broken by the (il "T'he men,
upon this shocking announcement, immedately
relaxed their hold, and the frame tel], crnshed six
of them beneath its heavy timbe <, not one of
whom survived the injuries received. I'he fathe ¢
ol the boy escaped wminjured.