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Laws of Rhode-Island.
STATE @F RHODEISLAND AND PROV.-
IDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In Gomeral Assembly, January Session, 1849,
AN ACT in amendment of an act entitled “un act
regalating the assessing and collecting of Taxes.
¥ is emacted by the General Assembly as follerves :
Soction 1. Merchundise, stock m trade. Inmber
and coal, wad stock in livery stables, machinery
und machine tools, being in buwildings or ou wharves
or etherwise located i any town in this State,
and boelonging to persons nen-iesident in this State.
shall be taxed i the towns in which such property
may be at the time of assessing any tax.
See. 2. Persons residing in this State and own.
ing property of the deseription mentioned 1 the
preceding section, which property shall be located
and taxable by the laws of any other State insuch
other State, shall not be taxed for the same iu the
towns in which they reside.
See. 3 Any town may provide for suel dedue
tion from the tax assessed against any person if
paid at the time by such towa appointed, or for
such penalties by way of per centuge on such
taxes if mot paid at the tme appointed, not ex
ceeding twelve per cont per atmam, as they may
decm necessary 10 ensnre the punctual paviment
thereof; and no demand shall be held wecessary 1o
the collection of said penalties.
Sec. 4. Any town may provide that notice of
the iutended collection of any tax may be given by 1
publication in some public newspaper for a rea
sonable tme in their (liincretion. or by posting up ‘
written or printed notices in suel places and for
stch time as they may direct: and such notification ‘
shall be considered s equivalent to a personal de
mand in all cases where « demand isnow requir .4 i
by law.
Sec. 5. In all cases whero a demand o reqrired
by law to be wade before proceedivg 1o the com
pulsory collection of any tax, th. oath or aflirma
tion ot the eollector shall be admitted as presutnp
tive evidence of such desmand.
Sec. 6. In all Cuses where personal property
shall be levied itpon by the collector, he shall cause
& notice thereof to be left at the [ast and unsual
place of abode of the owner, or personzlly given
to the owner at least five days previous 1o the ap-
Pointed time of sale. and the mode of advertising
and selling shall be the same as in case of levying
in exeention upon personal estate.
Sec. 7. lu all cases where real estate 1s levied
upon by any coliector for the pavment of taxes,
no entry upon the land shall e held nececessary
Bat the (‘OHI'('I(“‘ in all such cases shall make a re.
turn of all his proceedings uuder oath. into the
town clerk’s office of the town where the land is
sitnated, within ten days after the sale, whiel re.
turn shall be admitted to be presumptive evidence
of all the facts therein stated.
Sec. 8. Personal property in the hands of exee.
utors, administrators or guardians. shall be taxed
to them in the towns where the deceased person
resided, or where the ward may reside.
Sec. 9. The second section of an act entitled
“An act declaring what is real and what personal
estate in certain cases,” contained in the digest of
laws, is hereby amended by striking out the con
cluding words “except the assessment and pay
ment of taxes”
Sec. 10. The foregoing provisions (excepting
section fourth) shall also apply to all taxes ordered
under the provisions of the several acts relating
to Public Schools. True copy—witness :
HENRY BOWELN, Sec'ry.
AN ACT in addition to the several acts in relation
to the sale of Real Estate by Guardians.
It is enacted by the General Assen ly. as follmes :
Section 1. Courts of Probate shall have cogni
znnce and yurisdiction over petitions of guardians
appointed by them, for authority and lhecense to
mortgage the rcal estates of their wards in all
cascs where it shall appear to said court for the
interest of said wards, to hear, exumine into and
in their diseretion to grant the snme. under such
conditions and restrictions ae are or shall be im-
Boccd by law or Iy the count granting the same ;
ut before granting any such petition, notice ghall
be given by the court or clerk of the pendency and
prayer thereof, in the same manner as notice is
now required by law to be given in cases of the
sale of real estate: And any guardian empowered
as atoresoid, shall have power by virtue of such
authority to make, sign and execute in duc form
of law, all necessary lfcedl and conveyances, which
shall have the same effeet as if said cfc'uls and con
veyapces were executed by said wards when at
fi‘llge and of sanc mind and memory ; and the
entrice and fees on such petitions shall be the
same as now arc or uw{ be provided by luw in
cases of petitions for sale of real estate.
Sec. 2. In cases of petitions of executors, ad
ministrators and guardians for sale of real estate
where the real ¢ itate to be sold is not in the opin
-lon of the Courtwol I'robate worth over five hun
dred dollars, no entry fee shall be charged for the
State Treagury,
True copy—witness,
HENRY BOWEN, Scc'ry.
AN ACT in amendment of an act entitled “An Act
to regulate the Militin.”
It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows :
Scetion 1. So much of said act as relates to the
assessment, collection and distribution of the mili
tary commutation tax, to wit, the fifth, sixth and
*cventh sections thereof, and se much of the seven.
teenth section as follows the two first sentences of
said section; and the act entitled “An act to
amend the scverul acts relating 'o the militia,”
passed at the June session, A. D. 1818, are - ereby
repealed. Provided, nevertheless, that uny com
mutation tax already usscssed, shall be eollected
and the proceeds of any such tax already collect
ed or that may be collected, shall be appropriated
in the same manner ae if this act had not been
passed.
Truc copy —witness,
HENRY BOWEN, Sec'ry.
AN ACT in amendment of an act entitled * An
Actin anendment of un act entitled an act for
the relicl of Poor Persons imprisoned for Debt,”
It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows :
So much of said act of which this is in amend
ment as requires the Juilor to dischurge any pri
soner for debt upon default of the creditor, his
ngentor attorney to make pavment for the debtor's
board, shall not hereafter apply in the case of uny
debtor who has been or who shull be refused the
poor prisoner’s oath, and who shull at the time of
said defuult have the liberty of the jail yard.
True copy —witness,
HENRY BOWEN, Scc'ry.
AN ACT in relation to the Board of Prisoncrs in
Jail.
It is enacted by the General Assemliy, as follows :
Section 1. The weekly ullowane: to Juilors for
the board of prisoners, whether committed on civil
or criminal process, shull be hereatter one dollar
and filty ccuts, instead of one dollar and twenty-
Jive cents, us is now provided b{' law.
Sec. 2. Any act inconsistent heeewith is hereby
repcalod. True copy —witness,
HENRY BOWEN, Scery,
AN ACT in addition to an aet entitled “An net
prescribing the manner of proceedings in Courts,”
1t is enacted by the General Asscmbly as fiklows :
Bection 1. Verdicts, awards of referces and
reports of wasters in Chancery or of auditors as
certaining amounis of twenty dollars or upwards
due from party to party by way of debt or dam
nges rendered in or rewurned o the Courts of
Common Plens or the Supreme Court, shall, if
und in so fur as coufinned by judgwent or decree
draw interest on such debt or damages if' of the
nmount of twenty dollars or upwards if a verdiet,
from the time the same is rendered—and if an
award or report, from the time the snme is dated
or wade up : Provided, there be nothing in said
verdict, award or report contained (o the contrary
thereof, or plainly iuconsistent therewith.
Nec. 2. \r'hene\'er any executor or adininistra
-lor by or aguiust whom “any action is prosecuted,
shall die, resign or be removed. the action shali
not thereby be abated; but the suceessor. il any,
puay tome anto court o prosecnte or defend, or
duay be summoned in, in such manner as the court
ony dires,
Sec. 4. Ko wetion of ejectment brought upon
iy Wwortgage decd shel) abate by the death of any
{vrlu:::l:("ur plasuts, L:! e executor or adininis
e Y Come 16 and proseeyte the same.
Bec. 4. Whes the nume of sny defendnnt or
hePokdeut in auy process civil ar erimingl, shall
be unkucwn, the process suay inaye wgsinet Lim
by a fictitiwus Uee, or by ou-,{n descriptvu as the
complawaut or plumufl iy select, and it way af
berwards be swended as the conrt Way direct, |
True copy —~wityess : |
lfi-Mfl BOWLN, &, iy, |
M.‘M' m fi. Clefh ‘o' h Hup".""'
Court, aud Courts of Common Pleas, be """""“i
required o report W each MAy Nession of the
General Assambly, the amount of enyicn paid in
their seversl Courts fur the year ending on the
last duy of April of ench year : wud «leo the smount
of Clerks’ fees lmivc“by sich Clerks, and in.
dudiog fees due but not pad, (or the sanse period.
Troe copy—witness :
WENRY BOWEN, Secyy,
THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION,
Moxpay, Feh 26,
Sexare.~(Additional )=The civil and diplo
matie appropriation hill was taken up, the qoes
tion being on providing a temporary government
in Calitornia and New gh xieo. which was diseys.
sed by Messrs. Downs, Bell, Berrien, Dayton and
Underwood.,
~ The Senate then took a recess tll 6 o'clock On
reassembling the debnte was resamed. and contin
ued by Messrs. Hunter, Dayton, Niles and West
colt. The question on M, Dayton's amendment
was taken and decided in the negative, nycs 8,
noes 47.
Mr. Walker's amendment was then carried by a
majority of 2
Various other amendments were adopted among
others one making an appropriation for a full mis
slon to Chili, which was ndopted by a vote of 30
to 21,
An amendment, continuing the appropriation
for the support of a mission 1o the German Con
fedcration, was passed.
' _ Turevay, Feh. 27,
SENaTE —A resolution waus adopted that a core
’ mittee be appointed to muke arrangements for Viw
reception of President ‘Waylor, and Vice I'resident
Fillmore, on the Hth of Myreh,
The bill regu'snng the pensions of office ry, wen
men, and solhiers, disabled 1 the public service,
ufter brief consideration, was pussed.
The eivil and diplomatic bill came up. and the
Proposal 1o increuse the salaries of the Minisaers
to Russia, England, and Franee, was debated.
After a long discussion, the whole subject 'was
withdrawn. g‘ arious other amendimnents 1 the bill
were adopted, including an appropriation of 100,
000 for compensation of mileage of members of
Congress.
The Hovse, after some unimportant bmimwg.
went into Committee of the Whole on the Culi
foruia bill,
| Mr. Rowan of Maryland took the floor, and
- concluded his speech in favor of a tarifl for pro.
tection. . He compared the manufucturing und
ining business of England and America, and con
sidered that the latter hnd greatly the advamage.
An awendment was offered by Mr. Sawyer of
Ohio in favor of striking out the Wilmot proviso,
or 12th scetion—contending that that shonld be
left with the people of the territories of Caulitornin
and New Mexico, whether or not slavery should
exist there. Sundry other umendments were of
fered and briefly discussed.
The proposition of Mr. Preston of Virginia was
rejected as an amendment to the California bil),
and no essential amendment was agreed to. The
commiitee rose, the bill was reported, and ordered
to be engrossed.
Mr. Meude of Virginia moved to lay it on the
table. The yeas and nays wee taken, and the
motion was negatived. The bill then pa-sed—
yeas 126, nays 86. The Honse is now consider
mg the bill for a mintin California, as the despaich
closes.
o . EVENING SESSION,
| Inthe Sexare, in the evening session, the gen
| eral appropriation bill was tuken up, and amend-
L ments adopted Appropriating $2O 000 for the pur
| chase of the pupers of George Washington, onid
| the like sum for the purchusc of certuin pupers of
I James Monroe.
| An amendment for the inerease of the salary of
| the chief clerk in the Pension Office, was lost,
| An amendment in favor of purchasing Catlin's
| Indian gallery of puintings, &ec., at an expense
- hot exceeding 50 000, payable in ten years, was
under debate at half past 1l o'clock, at'which time
there were no signs of an adjournment,
' In the House, in the cvening the session was
continued,
. The Culifornia Mint Lill was laid aside,
| _The House then went into Comumittee of the
' Whole on the bill for the Government of New
| Mexico. Mr. Vinton offered and advocated an
amendment, giving the settlement of the boundary
o the Supreme Court,
| Mr. Greeley opposed the amendment on the
- ground that a majority of the members uf the Court
- were slaveholders, but advocated the pussage of
the bill,
| Mr. Toombs vebemently opposed the bil) and re
’pliml to Mr. Vintou and Mr. Greeley, with some
severity. ’
) Mr. Schenck followed in an able speech. He
'denied that Texas had noy claim upon New Mex-
Cico, und denounced the whole business connected
' with thesannexation. He opposed the amendiment
1‘ of Mr. Vinton, Adjourned, {
. Wabskstay, Pel, 92,
Sexate ~The Presidong communicated, i ob
- dience to call, a list of 4 treaties and navigution
‘ Ifth Wllb foreign nations. nlso a list of proclama
-lone Laving torce of treatios— 2000 copics were
ordered to be printed. The bill from the House,
on the territorial government of Caliloruin. was
read and referred (o the Commiltee on Terri
tories.
Mr. Benton, from a Scleet Committee, reported
in fuvor of appropriating 20,000 to test Prolessor
Page’s Elcetro magnetic ivention. The report
- waw ordered to be printed.
The resolution setting aside Thursday for the
consideration of private bills was rescindedl.
The civil and Jiplunmtic bill came up, and alt
the ameadments to which. against which no spe
cial objection was made, were concurred in col
|cc(EVc]‘y. The amendumicnt for paying the Mexi
can instalment, under the treaty, was stricken
out. having been provided tor in ¢ sepurate bill,
Mr. Wehster's amendment for a tem orary gov -
ernment in California cnme up, and ;fir. Dix of
New York proceeded to make an elaborate speech
on the gencral subjcet of providing a government
for the new territories.
Mr. Dix continued his remarks until within fif
teen minutes of the time of taking the recess, when,
on motion of Mr. Dickinson, the Senate proceed
ed to the considetation of Executive business.
Alter which the civil and diplomatic bill again
coming up, Mr. Mason addressed the Senate on
the difference between Southern rights and South
ern institutions.
Mr. Phelps followed in fuver of the immediate
rassage of the bill. He deprecated the time which
‘\ad been wasted in this debate, and hoped the
question would be immediately put.
The question was then wken, and the bill pass
cd, yeas 25, nays 18, Adjourned.
House oF Rerueeestarives.—Mr. Goggin. of
Virginia, from the Committee on the Post Office,
reported a resolution declaning it inexpedient to
take any action, at the present session, in rela
tion to stopping Sunday mails ; agrecd to,
The committee reported adverse to granting
lands for internal improvements,
A resolution was udopted to take a recess from
half-past three to six.
Mr. Haralson, of Georgia. from the Committee
of Ways and Means, reported a draft of a tariff
based on the principles of the tariff of 1842, Mr.
Nicoll, of New York, from the minority, made a
report upon the same subject. Both were ordered
to be printed.
Several Senate bills were passed, including the
Mincsota Territoral bill.
The bill abolishing the franking privilege was
laid upon the table.
The bull for commissioners to run the Mexican
boundary line came up, and Mr. Smith, of Con
necticut. by direction of the Foreign Relations
Committee, submitted a substitute,
[The coneluding jportions of the report of the
House proceedings his not been received, owing
to the telegraph working badly )
Nariosar Frexen Fere,—M. Poussin, the ac.
complished minister of the French republic 1o the
United States, celebrated at his own house, on Sat
urday cveaing, the nuniwnnry of the revolution of
France, whic{: ok place in February, Although
l the night was very inclement, yet we have never
#een a more brilliant company “in Washingt n,—
The diplomnatic corps was numerously and respec
tably ropresented. There were present cver{ meme
ber of the cabinet, wud many other of the nighest
exceutive, naval, and military officers; the Vice
President of the United States the Speaker of Ihe
House of Representatives, ln& many members of
both houses of Congresa, Judges of the Supreme
Court, distinguished strangers and citizens of
Washington.
The me of the house was illuminaied ; within
rewgned tasie, generous fecling, and a cordial sym
pathy with the French republic. The supper room
was tastelully ornaivented, from ceiling o gides,
with the beautiful tri-color. The decorations ol
the table were very handeo ne. The wine ran like
water; French hospitality presided at the board,
and every one appeared w be delighied. < Wash
{ngton Uniun.
Dav Mai reom Nowwicw yo Weerenty, R,
L ~We are authorized to state that npplication
having becn made 1o the Post Office Department,
for the estullishment of a duily mail from this
City o Westerly, . 1., the Department have deci
ded W recerye proposals for a tri weekly or every
other day muil. and a 83 fora daily mail between
the points named. The route will be through Pres
ton Citv. the village of Milltown. in North Ston
inglen and thence ¢ Paweituck, in Westerly, R |
There was a shoe k.df;::;'lngraakc at Potsdam,
Bt Lawrence county, N, Y. ou the 13th inst,
Bn Mail. *
Froten to death —'l'wo men in a one horse cutter,
travelling from Peru to this city, were found frozen
to death a litde way this side of the Summit on
Thursday lust. The horse was also frozen. On
“'l‘dm'udu*' evening last a boy was also found
frozen to death near Otig’ dairy on the west side
of the North Branch. He was it is uup'um-d. on
his way home. He was found standing eaning a
gainst the fence for support. A nuwber of per
sons coming into the eity have had their CATH,
hands, feet, or other parts of their peisons frozen.
We understand a Norwegian woman was frozen
to death on the North side of the river on Wed.
nesday evening last.—Chicago Democrat, 18tk wlt.
Fatal Accident.~Mr. William McCullongh, for.
werly of this town, was instantly killed in Bain.
bridge lust week, while engaged mlogging. "The
logrolledaverthe sled. and pressed o stickdown up
on the leg of his son, whercupon Mr. MeCullongh
sprang 1o lns rehef'; placing his shonlder ngainst
the log with the view of raising one end to relieve
the sufferer, he siipped and fel) immedintely be.
fore the log, which, gathering impetns in rolling
back to the place from which he had hifted it, pas.
sed over his body, literally sinashing hiy he.rs to
atoms.— Novwewch Telegraph,
Califormia Gold at the Mint,—W e understand
thut the amount of California gold deposited at the
mint of Philadelphia, for coining, up to Wednes
day last, was 88522, The only coinage of Cali.
fornia gold is in quarter cagles, and amounts 1o
86817 50, OfF these, the pieces transmitted 1o
John Y. Mason, Fsq., the Seeretary of the Nuvy,
were marked with the letters “Cal.” over the head
of the eagle. "The other pieces, with a few ex.
ceptions, had no distinetive mark.— Il ushington
Unwn.
Festivities at Washington.—A \etter from Wash
ington says—The ball-room is nearly completed,
to accommaodate 3000 persons. Gungl's great
band is employed. An orchestra 60 feet by 12 is
erecting for their accommodation. Every house,
public and povate, in Washington, and for tonr
miles round, will be full on the Sth of March.
Ladies from all parts of the United States. are
coming in every direction The mangnration
will be attended by more ludies than have ever be
fore been seen in Washington on uny occasion.”
New York Erening Post.
A Wacshington letter of the 224 ult., LT
“The Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institn
(Viee President Dallas) invested to-dany the fun
of the institution, amounting to 220,000, in
Un ted States six per cent stock. The direct
of the Institute are only permitted to expend 1
interest which aecrues, leaving the capital
touched. The Prince de Joinville Joimtly with |
wife, made a second investment to-day of $20,0
in the U. 8. stocks.”
Bemarkable Phenomenon.—A lady in Philad
rhin, named Flaherty, who has has been sick for
ong period of time, and was treated for vario
diseases, snch as heart complaint, spinal irritatio
&e., was relioved of the cause of her physical d
tress, but a lew days ago, by medicine which ¢
r:-]lud a tapeacorm fifty-two and a half feet lon .
r. 8. Heine was the physician, and administere
but four table spoons of the medicine, whatever
was, which accomplished the object instanter,
The Rwilroad from Hartford, Conn., to Bristo
B. L.—After the strenuous efforts of the chairma
of the conunittee of subseriptions, there still re
mains the smn of 2000 10 he raised to secure th
construction of the Hartford and Brisio] R ilroag
Without this what has already been subseribed |
of no avail, for the subseription is expressly on th
condition that it shall be null and voul nseless
whole sum required—lso,ooo-—sha!l be SeCHres
within a fixed time.— Boston Psst.
Pirates.~The Belgian Consul at Gibraltar ha
transmitted to his government eome information
respecting the navigation of the coust of RifT, neay
Cuape Foreas, and the piracy carried on there.—
He states that the forees of the pirates, who
traverse the consts of Moroceo, render it impera.
tive on the part of masters of vessels 10 give Cape
Forcas a wide birth. He also alludes to the cap
tare of several English vessels by the pirates.
Fatal Accident.—Mr, ‘l'hos. Crabe, about 28
years of age, was killed yesterday afternoon, at
Roxbury, while blasting rocks. e was in the
act ol applying fire 0 o slow mateh, when a spark
acerdentally dropped into the powder, which, tnk
g Gire, instantly exploded the rock nud threw him
uhout fifleen fect into the air. He has Joft a wife
and several children o mourn his loss.— Boston
Tunes, lat.
Tezas Delt.—Fvery person holding any honds,
promissory notes, or other evidence of debtagainst |
P'exas, must forward the same to the auditor and
comptroller of pullic accounts ol the State of Tex. |
as, on or hufore.\he sccond Mouday of November, |
1249, or tiiey will be postponed or barred. It will
notdo to forward copies, l
Passengers in the Regulus, for San Francisco,
from Boston:—Wuwm. A. Brown Fredk. A. Wal. |
dron, W, A. Bowen, Stephen Battey and Daniel ’
Usher, of Providence ; Win. Brown, of Albion |
Village, R. L. John 1. Thurston, Gardiner S, |
Hall and Fdwin Lee, of North Providence, R. 1.; |
John W. Martin, of Woonsocket, R. 1. ‘
T'he real friends of Thomas Hyer will be glad to |
learn that he has set his seal against pugilism here- |
after; he promises never to appear again in the |
rize ring. He has become prn,)ric-,lnr of the
rinmch Hotel, in the Bowery, so ong and ably |
conducted by Jouas Bartett. ©We wish him suc
cess.—N Y. Sun, !
Extract of a letter, dated Cuicaco, Feb. 17.
The sleighing has been good all winter, and at ;
the npcninf of the navigation there will be here in .
store, 3 millions bushels of wheat 1o tfio forward !
from Lake Michigan, which is double the gnantity
of any previous year.
Snow in New Orlecans.—On the night of the 16th
instant, the citizens of New Orleans were favored |
with snow, hail and ice. The |§rmmd 18 stated to ;
have been covered to the depti of an inch, pre.
senting quite an unusnal spectacle o those who
had never visited more Northern climes. ,
The Postmaster General annonnces that the '
mail steamship Falcon will leave New York Mareh |
Hth, for Chagres. Letter postage to Chagres 20
cents, to Panama 30 cents, to be pre;ruud; to
California 40 cents, cither paid or unpaid. |
Mrs. Hill, in Columbia county, N. Y., nged 80 |
years, died on the 14th inst., of. voluntary starva- |
tion ; she had become possessed with the idea that |
she hiad lived long cuough, and refused all suste- i ;
nance until she died. ‘
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Mr. Williamson, a young man who was engaged |
in logging in the woods near Aurora, Me., bled to |
death in a few minutes from a wound in the thagh |
occasioned by the axe of a companion coming off | |
the handle, and striking him with great violence |
The city of New York, in twem'v-four days of | \
February, up to Satarday last, yielded from im- | |
ports the large sum of $1,720,000. The revenue | \
received from im”mru, atall the ports, for January j
and February, will exceed $5,000,000. !
A right whale measuring about thirty-five feet |
in length, was taken near Bridgehampton, 1.1, | u
on Friday of last week, which it is supposed will ' o
yield from 30 to 40 barrels of oil. ‘ 1l
Col. Henry Franeis Marshall Moody Lixfonl, of | I
Hollv Springs, Mississippi, was found dead be- | 1
tween two hogs. He had imbibed an over quan- | |
Lty of the urdent. , !
Lake Champlain is frozen over. Ntages com. |
mwenced running from Buarlington, Vi, 10 Port | s
Kent. N Y., onthe 13th inst. T'he distance across | n
18 ten miles. ‘ o
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’ A bootmaker of Ognacocke, I, exhibits eight
pairs of large size boots, made by a man named
Grinnell, in one day. The work is done in u si
, perior manner,
Solomon G. Davis, of good character hitherto,
has been convieted at Canandaigua, N. Y., of in
cest with his daugliter, 14 years old, by force on
‘ his part.
They have gota Connecticnt notion at Hartford,
in the shape of a churn, that will make butter fi ou
new milk in five minutes,
There is 0 hog now hanging np in Jenning's
establishment in Green street, which weighs 910
pounds dressed '— Albany Journal.
, Jtis sard Tom Hyer, in his new hotel in New
York on Satirday, twok $2OOO, such was the
erowd of visitors.
The best of beel is only 10 conts a Ynnml in‘
Washington city market; partridges $1 124 cents
a dozen.
Eustace W. Barron has been npémimed Britieh
consul at San Blus, and Cleland ‘umberlege at
Tumpico.
~__Snow Storm at Mobile.~On the 17th snow fell at
Mubile to the depth of five inches on a level,
. T'he receipts from eustoms at New Orleans for
week ending Feb. 17t were §50,000,
The ice is out of Elk river, Md., and for the last
few days it has been swarming with wild ducks.
tflcpublimn erald,
. PROVIDENCE. :
‘nmrdny. Marvch 3, 1849,
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DENOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Noticy is hereby given that a Dxsmocnatic Reruniroan
Srare Joxvenrion, will be holden at the State Nouse, n
Provide ceyon TUESDAY EVENING, March 13th, 1449,
At G o'dock, for the purpose of transacting such business
u¥ the Qouvention may deem proper,
To igure a tall representation the Democratic Commit
tees of fhe city, and severnl towns, are requested ty eall
carly wimary meetings, in their respective wards and
towns, for the election of delegates to said Convention,
equal m number to their representation in both branches
of tho General Assembly,
Demagrnts of the wards and towns, are further request.-
ed to eljet nt said moeetings, a committee man, o serve them
for the @isuing pol tical year, and forward his name to the
Chairma 1 the State Central Committee, on or befure the
meetingyt the Convention,
By erder of the State Central Committeo,
| SAMUEL N, WALES, Chairman.
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?7' stern District, A Demecratic Convention
Wil be folden at the State Hounse, in Providence, on
TUESD {y EVENING, March 13th, 1849, a 1 8 o'clock, to
Dominatda candidate, if deemed expedient, to represent
the Westyrn District in the next dfongruun.
By vider of the State Central ¢ omimit ee,
SAMUEL H. WALES, Chairman.
I'T Masiern District.—A Demoeratic Convention
will be folden at the Mtate House, in Providence, on
TUESDAY EVENING, Mareh 13th, 1549, ut 8 o’cluck, to
nomina® a candidate, it deemed expedient, to represent
the Eas®ru District in the next Congress,
Iy order of the State Ceptral Committee,
BAMUEL H., WALES, Chairman.
' F% We cannot be mistaken when we say that
public sentiment in onr country is against any es
sential chunge i the poliey of adwinistering the
affuirs of the general government. The senti
ment i favor of Democratic measures is too gen
eral awd too strong 1o be misunderstood ;—we
think it niay prove wo formidable to be disregard.
ed, evenshould the old savans of the Whig party,
who are now hanging about the skirts of General
Taylor, succeed in making him believe that they
are the vien from whow lie can most safely sclect
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& Duaring the last four yearsour country has pros-
Xe | pered, ull things considered, as it never prospered
,T’ bhefore. And our prosperity, almost universal as
it 1t has been, has yet first found its new strength in
,’nm-h Chamiels as to show us beyond all cavil that
[, mnch ol it is properly attributable to the chunge
| of measnres which followed the election of Mr.
" | Polk. The steadiness o our woney market has
l.‘ | formed one of the pillars of our success ; strength
s cuing the business man, becanse giving him con
¢ idence o the stability of things around him ; and
’; chconriging the lu!um-r, becavse g.uurdn!g h.im
agamnst the fluctuations and robberies which fol-
Hlow dn the train of the old policy. "T'he inerease
: of commerce has poured new life and energy into
- the whole business community ; has brought bread
1o the laboring man, and offered new chiannels to
Leapital. No one denies that we have been indebt
| | ed to the Independent Treasury for prosperity in
maticrs depending upon the condition of our cir-
Cculwiing medivw; and to the Free Trade policy
L 0746, for the increase of commerce which has
contributed so essentially to the general advance-
L ment,
‘ The change in our condition has not been vio-
Hentor sudden ; yet none can have failed 10 mark
(it It has been gradual, essential, general, per
[mancut. It eommencod with the commencement
ol the new, or rather the return to the old, policy.
Mt has continned, BlVing us new encrgy and more
general prosperity, in despite of every obstacle.
The terrible rey ulsions—-{inancial earthquakes,
we might call them—in the old world, have been
et with fitmness, and have left us unharmed.
The erash of thrones has not drowned the noise
of bammers in our workshops, or for a moment
thrown our tradesmien from their ouward, upward
course. A two yeary' war—drawing willions
from our T'reasury, and changing the pursuits of
thousands npon thousands of our people, has not
only not brought the ruin predicted, but has left
us etill inore prosperous, in many respects, than it
found us, and has opened conntless new channels
to the enterprise of our citizens. "Thus every
step in onr history has brought us new energy,
new fields of lubor, new wealth. And the whole
country has smiled, as it never smiled before, in
the trinmph of that policy, from which Whigs, in
the onset, could find it in their hearts to predict
nothing but withering frosts and blighting mil
dews,
Is it possible that the people have not marked
these results of Democratic administration '—That
they have not seen the relation, in this case as in
others, between cavse and effect ? Has 1t escaped
the notice of the farmer that the Whig prediction
of low prices for his products, has not been real
ized—has proved plainly and utterly false and
groundiess? Has it escaped the keen eye of the
business man, that the distress which was to visit
his sphere of operation, and ruin his hopes, has
ot been seen? Have the mechanic and the la
horer fuiled to note the difference between Whig
predictions of low wages and starvation, and the
wetual prosperity and advancement which have
rewarded their industry ! No—no. Else why
he out-speaking of the public press, from one end
f the Union to the other, in favor of the present
wolicy T Why the adwmissions, by the rankest of
' opponents, that the present systems have
vorked well, and that instead of radical changes,
ve need only slight modifications of existing laws,
Ve all know what these “slight modifications"
hean; what changes of policy they are intended
v cover; and the motives which lurk beneath the
ve of the new phrase. But this does not alter, it
nly coufirms what we have cluimed. [t shows
Wt THE rrorLk are fuvorable to the policy which
as proved so successful, and that they will not
lerate—are mot expected to tolerate—what 10
\em may scem a radical change.
If, then, we have not erred in stating what
e us but the most palpable facts, may we
Ot expect—may we not hope, at least—that Gen
ral Taylor will so far regard the welfare of the
cople and his own good nawe, as to let well
lone what he cannot improve, and even give the
tluence of his office in favor of measures which
we proved alike serviceable to the government
il the people T We have not the vanity to be
eve that our word wounld influence his course, il
could reach his ear: but we shall venture the
rediction to onr own litte world of readers, that
fur, and wo far only us he adheres to the policy
the present adumimisteation, will his own be suc
wsful. T'he President who at this day disregards
¢ Jaw of progress, and throws himself into the
s of those who believe in the eternity of iron
e, will not only bring disgrace upon himself,
defeat o his administration. and overthrow 1o
sparty. Zachary Tuylor must see all this, if’ he
not blind—<must read it in the history of the past,
but the shightest record of the past finds place in
‘ memory. We hope he will see and read it,
dact as becomes the independent, unpledged
i Lie is claimed to be.
UV General Taylor is represented as in poor
health sinee his arrival in Washington. T'he of
fice holders beset him at every town, and secmed
deterthined to give him “jissie,” as they did Gen.
Harrison.
‘ Hon. Awnorr Lawneser, we heard vesterday,
| was then on the point of setting out for W ashing
i ton. This gives color to the report that he had
| been tendered a seat in the Cabinet As a dewso.
[ erat, we sincerely hope that he is about to head the
Treasury Depariment, for we are certain that no
| government ean last of which he is a member, or
l which shall be conducted on the principles with
{ which his name is identified, and of which he i* a
firm upholder. No such government can stand in
Lonr country. An attempt to realize what we may
‘ he pennitied to eall Lawrenceism, mnst be as fatal
to the party attempting it, as would be the nll.\n!rl
1o vestore the white flag in France. We are will
ing to have our words marked, and to stand or {ull
| with the result of this prediction, namely, that Ab
| bott Lawrence, if promoted to a seat in the Cabi
net, will prove the Polignae of the adwinistration.
| His aristocratical notions are a portion of his na
tare, and he cannot compromise them if he would.
The administration that shall attempt to earry them
out must act in opposition to the spirit of the age, |
and in thus acting it will go down, were its fonnda- |
[tum broad and strong as that of the Pyramids.
Boston Ttmes.
E 97 To all which we say amen, and so let it be.
If General Taylor ig disposed to put such men as
Abbott Lawrence in his Cabinet, the quicker he
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sinks, the better for the country. Mr. Lawrence
way not be so ultra in his Whiggism as many
men of more ability in the same party. He wonld
fposnil;ly be content with a more reasonable tariff
| law than would have suited his party four years
ago. But he is a perfeet aristocrat in soul; has
' fattened on the toils and sufferings of poor factory
operatives ; and has proved himself a tyrant from
s youth up. He made one hundred thousand dol
lars by the passage of the tariff law of 42, and b
|yl g )
} serewing down wages to the lowest point, on pre
tence of hard times. Once in a while he makes a
donation to some humbnog insii‘ntion—perhaps to
a worthy one, occasionally—and in this way
manages to keep his name up as very benevolent,
and very religions withal, He wanted to be Vice
President under Taylor, but he couldn't wheedle
his friends into the belief that he was fit for the of
fice ; and 50 he has now bid for something a little
lower, but for which neither his talents nor his
expericnce qualify him.
I Viry Ban.—The Whig papers all over the
country are crying shame upon the Democrats of
Ohio because they so far “fraternized” with the
free-soilers in the legislature as to agree to the
clection of Mr. Chase. a free-soil Demoerat, as
‘So-n:nmr, to succeed Mr. Allen. They intimate,
first that the Democrats, and then that the free
’ soilers were bought over, and would like to make
shout enough over the purchase to frighten the
menh ont of its wits. They forget to tell their
readers that their own party supported the rank- ‘
st out-and-out (rec-soiler in the whole West—no |
less a personage than Joshua R. Giddings himself.
Giddings did more to destroy Taylor's chance in ’
Ohio than any other man upon the stump, and
voted for Van Buren as a sort of clineher of the
whole. To show their gratitude, we suppose,
the Whig Taylorites voted for him for Nenator,
Of course they did not hope to catch any free-soil ’
votes therehy ! Oh, no !
- T Tux oruer Wine or Feornavisu, eall
| ing itsell the Free Soil party, of this State, metin
Mechanies Hall on Thursday, and nominated the
following ticket for State officers :
Governor—DLdward Harris,
Lient. Governor—Jacob Babeock.
Secretary of State—Samuel R Jackson.
General Treasurer—Daniel Carr.
The Convention also nominated members of
Congress—John Boyden, Jr. for the Eastern, and
Lauriston Hall for the Western district. 'We
don’t know whether the Convention resolved to
clect these gentlemen—all of theim very good, by
the way, o far as we know—or not. |
Cosxecricur.=~The Demoerats of Conneecticnt
have nominated the gallant Col. Thomas 11. Sey
mour, as their candidate for Governor, Col, Sey
mour is not only a valiant soldier, having distin
guished himself for his bravery and skill in the lute
war with Mexico, but a man of unblemished pris
vate character, and eminent ablilities s a politi
cian and statesman. If our friends thgre do not
give one hiearty pull for his clection, we shall own
ourselves disappomted in their estimate of patiot
-I=m and worth.
07 The Free Soilers have concluded to throw
away their votes for Congressman in the Western
district, by giving them to Mr. Hall. Nobody
complains that Mr. Thurston is not as true to the
Free Soil principle as Mr. Hall ean possibly be ;
but Mr. "I, is a Democrat, and Mr. 1. is a Whig
—all the difference in the world, my lord. Free
Soil never loses an opportumty to defeat the de
lll()(?fll!'y .
| @lt will be seen by the advertisement that
| Porter is out with his Spring style Hats. Porter
s always on hand when there is a new style looked
for, or when any thing superior in the line of his
business is to produced. The fashion for this
- Spring is the most beautiful of any we have ever
seen. The style for lining is truly elegunt. We
advise those who want a “lp top” tle, to give
Mriend Porter a call,
Mr. O. F. Dutcher, 14 Market Square, has also
received the new Spring style.
HoLven's DoLrar Macaziye.—Another nun
ber of this cheap periodical—the March number—
has been received by the agent, Mr. O. Wilmarth,
Among the engravings we notice the portrait of
Louis Napoleon, and that of Elihu Burritt, the
learned blacksmith.
E 9” Mr. A. Eddy's anuual complimentary Ball
will take place at Terpischore Hall, on Thursday
evening next. Mr. E. always makes these affairs
pass off very pleasantly and agreeable to his nu
merous patrons and friends.
§97 Mr# Fornas' benefit was Just what we pre
dicted it would be, and Just what she deserved—
a bumper.
9" General Cass has arrived in Washington,
and will tuke his seat, we presume, on Monday
next,
[ Henk we nave IT, AT last.—Well, “we told
you sO.” We knew the air would be navigated.,
some time, and faith, itis to be. Else what does
| this mean, which we find in the New York Jour
l nal of Commeree, of last Saturday :
Mussis. Eorrors it s astonishing that in
l your valuable journal there should dppear no no
tice of the extraordinary invention that was exhib
ited lust evening before a thousand persons at the
| Tabernacle, an wrial car for navigating the air at
will in all directions. It is un nestionubly destined
to take rank heside steam nm‘ the telegraph, and
will like them produce extraordinary changes in
the habits of society. ‘T'he model ‘exhibitod last
evening consisted of a li.-h-ahnpml balloon, not
well infi:ued. of about ten feet long, below which
hung a species of clock-work, which gave motion
0 a linn‘y pmreller wheel not unlike the fans of a
wind-mill, and also, still lower, a car shaped like o
boat. The contrivance circulated re catedly
through the air across the large space im-,:mod by
the rotunda, in various directions, cirenlar: and
rectilinear. "I'he inventor, Mr. Porter, who is un.
doubtedly destined to immortality with Fulton and
Morse, announced that he is engaged in constrnet.
ing one of his wrial cars for practical operation, o
be propelled by a steam engine of ten horse hower,
We shall, beyond question, sce him, in the course
of the summer months, carcering over the city in
the sight of our whole population, and darting a
way to astonish the inhabitants of il and valley.
But when, instead of his present motive power,
he shallbe able to substitute the foree of the elee.
tro-magnet. which has been so wonderfully devel.
oped by (Ersted and Jacobs as 1o move ita
boat on the Neva at the rate of four miles an {our.
then indeed will wrial navigation bhecome so safe
and so cheap. and so convenient, as 1o be within |
the reach ullull classes, nnd become o thing of or.|
dinary and familiar use. IGUNOUTUS., |
' Tur State Estimary Commirree.~The Com
mittee recently appointed by the General Aseem
| bly, to make an estimate of all property rateabls
in this State, held u scasion lust Monday at the
' State House in this city, At a previous mecting,
’“uu Fedward W Lawton. ot Newport was clect
ed Chairman of the Committes, and Wingate
' Hayes. Fsg ,of Providenee ¢l k. The Conmnnttea
adopted a sgrios of instructions to the .\‘»pruiu'u
in the dillccent towns, Soun dive ity of opinion
Lexisted among the members us to what shoul! be
considercd “town wnd village lots.” The net ans
thorizing llmmking ol the estimate provides that
all farms and farm lands, and wiste and unims
proved liods except town and village lots, shall
be estimated at only two thieds of th ir uetual va
lue, Lhe Committee fin vly defined the latter 1o
e those lots in the thickly “settled portion of any
town which are occupied by dw clling houses, work
shops, out-buildings ‘&e . ¢na used -lri"(llv for pur
poses appurtenant to dwelling houses, ¢hops, wnd
out buildings as yards gardens, &e., or such lots
in the thickly settled portion of any town. which
are turned out for, or will sell for, building pur
poses, gardens, vards, &e.
The Committee appointed appraisers in the se.
veral towns. who are to make un estimate in their
respective towns, and retarn the same to the Com
mittee on or before the 200 h day of April next,
T'hese returns ure not conclusive, but are design
ced to wid the Committee in waking o general esti
mate of the State,
It will undoubtedly require a moeh longer pe
riod ot time to complete this estimate thun has
been anticipated. "I'he time occupied by the Com
mittce who made the estimate of the property of
the State in 1821, was upwards of sevenicen
months. and the valuation at that time was proba
bly not half so large us it will be this year. The
valuation of the State then was $32,610 000, The
valuation of the County of Newport was $5 050,
V 0; of Providence #1757 DOOO ; of Washington,
F 1.160 000 5 of Bristol, §2510000; and of hent,
3,120 000,
The Committee hope to be able to present their
report at the May session of the General Assem
bly.
¥l‘hc following is a list of the names of the ap
praisers in the several towns appointed by the
Committce under the present act, ard also the
valuation of cach town in 1821 ;
Appraisersin 1519 Valuation in 1021,
Newport, bullicfl C. Denhan, 2,000,000
Portsmauth, Join Manchester, 00, 000
New Shoreham, George G, Shefficld, 190,000
Jamestown, Goeorpe Anthony, 350,006)
Middletown, Peier Barker, 450,000
Little Compton, Oia W ilhour, 500,000
Tiverton, Joseph Osborne, 790,000
Providence, Wilhiam Sheldon, 9,500,000
| Smithficld, Orin Wright, 1,500,000
{ Scituato, Albert Hubbard, 50,000
Glocester, Swmith Peckliam, 620,000
| Camberland, Lewis B, Arnold, 570,000
Cranston, Sheldon Knigin, 1,000,000
Johnston, Albert Waterinan, 610,000
N. Providence, Lemuel Angell, 1,250,000
Foster, Johin Austin, 630,000
Buerillville, Daniel 8, Salishury, 650,000
Wesierly, Gicorgre D, Cross, 470,000
N. Kingstown, lsuac Hall, 70,000
S, Kingstown, Willian Peckhain, 1,100,000
Charlestown, Joseph Gayig, 350,000
Exeter, Nadian B, Lillibridge, 600,000
Richimond, Elias Tanuer, 300,000
Hopkiuton, Jolin I Chawplin, 470,000
Biistol, Nailan Buliuck, 1,500,000
Warren, Atlred Barion, 620 000
Barrington, Ebenczer Titfany, 190,000
Warwick, John Holden, 1,300,000
East Greenwich, Jeremiah S, Sloeum, 460,000
West Greenwich, Johin D, Giecene, 460,000
Coventry, Anthony Tarbox, 900,000
The Estimate Committee will hold jts next ses
siof in this city on the 19th of Muareh,
Burvise rue Harenmer Ixy New York.—Ever
sinee the recent political disaster to the Demoeratie
party, says the Detroit Free Piess, we have been
pleased 10 notice on the part of the more sober and
rehiuble portion of the supporters of the Bufialo
platform, a du‘muiliun to fruternize with their old
and tried friends in the good canse. This is a
spirit that is commendable, and will be looked up
on by the Democracy of the Union, asa precursor
of harmony in the ranks of their friends in that
State. We have before noticed the changes inade
in several of the prowinent journals of the State,
and now bave to record another. "The Catskill
Recorder hus become absorbed in the Democrat,
and the Albany Argus, in noticing the change, re
mirks:
“I'his and other indications that have recently
transpired, of' w disposition nmong the masses of
the Democracy, to bury their dissentions. and re
tuite npon the old gronn | of principle on which
they have heretofore stood, shoulder to shounlder
among themselves, and with their Democratie
brethren of the Union, will be regarded as an nn
spicious omen in and out of the Stuate,of returning
harmony in the Democratie ranks.”
The New York Globe says on this subject :
“We hearuly congratnlate the Dewmocrucy of
this State, upon the union, harwouy and reconci.
lintion, which now exists in our ranks. The
threatening clouds which “low credo’erourhonse,”
are dissipated, and once agrin. as in former times,
we meet in fraternal concord. A disposition 10
barmonize pervades the entire State, and where
discordant papers existed, such as those in Cort
landt, lh-nnun[:wr. &c.they are being voluntarily
abandoned, and their subseribers amicably trans
ferred to the Dewmocratic journals. "I'hat there Was
exhibited much acrimony and ill-feeling mnong the
O Guard” during the recent existing eanvass,
15 100 lamentable to be referred to s but the greater
15 the pleasure of reconciliation, when we know
that the caus: of the undue excitement is forever
removed.
Asoruen Onsonkre Toga.—lt s little more
than eight years (says the Pennsylvanian.) since
Webster pronounced the United Riates Bank an
obsolete iden, and now it seems a “high taritf,”
the corner stone of Whig principles, is become
obsolete also, A “distinguished gentleman” iy
Mussachusetts, writing 1o » “distinguished gentle
man™ in Hartford, in tavor of Abbos Lawrence as
Secretary of the Treasury uuder Gen. Taylor,
makes the following adwission, as a pears in an
extract from his letter, which we !n&e from the
Hartford Coarant:
A factunquestionally is, that My, Lawrence,
however he may have favored former tarifls, and
the protective system of former duys, is not a high
tariff man. The day ot high tariils has gone by.
They have done their work ; they have given us
the requisite skill, and concentrated the capital in
such a manner upon manufactures, that the coun
try can now breast competition with a range of
duties not higher than is needed for revenne pur
voses. There is no high tariff party in the country,
‘l'lm Whig party—the great body of New Png
land mannfacturers—do not desire a scale of du
ties higher than the average of the present taril.”
L Gex. Tavvor—A gentleman of Baltimore, a
Taylor man, and himself o politician of considera
ble prominency, who accompanied Gen. Taylor
from Cumberland 1o Washington, says that the
General conversed very freely in regard to the
volicy of his administration, but without commiting
’lilllflell on the great questions upon which he will
be called to act in his executive capacity.
The General, he says, stated openly and un.
hesitatingly, that Horace Binney will be Sceretary
of the I'reasury ; and on his way from the Relay
House to the Washington Depot, stated also, in
the presence of Mayor Seaton and others, that no
man wonld be proscribed by him for his political
opwions, though he must necessarily, he regretted,
make a great many removals.—Correspondence of
the Pennsyleanian,
A cotemporary very instly remarks that not
l withstanding all the fuss we make about - equali
| tlv” i this country, we are sadly humbugged on
the subject. ‘The fact is, and we can see it, theo
reticaily speaking, all men in good society are en
dowed with certain inalienable rights, except poor
men. Al men who do not ay their honest cL-bu
are great scamps, except t’:mm who cheat on a
large seale. Al men are great sinners, except
those who belong to the church. Al men are al
lowed to thiuk and speak freely, except those who
are not orthodox. All menare gentlemen, except
those who work fora living. Al well-dressed
and accomplished women are ladies, except facto
ry and servant girls.— Pennsyleanian,
Profession vs. Practice —Among the most clam
orous for Protection from Government, “against
Foreign competition,” are those very lordlings
who recently prosecuted the factory girls at Pitts
burgh, for insisting that a law intended for their
Protection against Dowmestie tyranny, should be
carried into effect '— Pennsyleanian.
Modern Churches.—~An exchango significantly
asks: “What do yon think the meek and lowly
Jus s would say. if he shonld come into one of
our fashionable gingerbread churches, and see the
splendid display of dry goods; and the minister,
with more yaflfi of fine silk abont him, than any
of the congregation, strnt up the broad aisle to the
highest seat in the synagogue and then repeat his
long prayers, und sleepy sermons 17
From the Journal,
S TR SR RNy 9wl +
I Frow Paxama.—A letter to the Now York Tri
bune dated at Panama, Junuary 24, gives an ac
count of a meeting held ut that piwce by a consid
cerable number of Awericans, 1o protest wgainst
the priority given to 'm-wngeru from the Pacitie
Cconst by the agent of the United States mail steam -
cer Califoruia. - The Americnns at Panama who
| went across the isthmus, in the expectation of ob-
Ctuining passage i the steamer, contend that by
Cthe advertisement of the Pacitie Mauil Company
[ they bave the right of priority over passengers
| from Culluo and other Vaelfie ports. T'he wmeet
g also passed rosolutions approving the circular
tsued by General Sinith, noutying foreigners that
| they are prohbited by the laws of the United States
’ from trespassing on the publie domuin, und that it
| wiil be his duty 10 en orce those laws agninst per.
| #ons not citizens of the United States, on his arri
valin Calornia, The following is the circular
letter of General Smith
‘ Sir: The laws of the United States inflict the
penalty of fine and iniprisonment on trespassers
con the publie lands. A- nothing can be more un
l reasonable or unjust than the condnct pursned by
| ersons not citizens of the United States, who are
Mocking from all parts to search for und carry off
gold bcfiunging to the United States in Culifornia,
und as such conduct is in direet violation of law, it
- will become my duty, immediately on my arrival
[ there, to put these laws in foree, to prevent their
(infraction in futore, by punishing with the penal
“ties preseribed by law those who offend.
As these laws probably are not known to many
who are about starting to California, it would Lo
well to make it publicly kuown that there are such
laws in existence, and that they will Le in future
enforced against all persons not citizens of the U
nited States who shall commit any trespass on the
lands of the United States in California. Your
pmx‘inu us consnl here, being in communication
with the consuls on the coast of South Awmerica,
atlords you the opportunity of making this known
most generally 5 and [ will be much obliged 1o
youif you will do it.
PERSIFOR F. SMI'TH.
Brev. Maj. Gen. U, 8. A, Com’g Pacific Division,
War. Nevsoy, U. 8. consul at Panama.
There is considerable dissatisfuction among the
Awmericans detained at Panama, in consequence of
what they eonceive 1o be the bad faith ol the Pa
cific agent of the Mail Company, but the letter ¢x
presses the opinion that the orderloving and law
adiding portion are o mneh in the ascendant, that
all will pass off without serions consequences.,
Baltimore American.,
- Frox Panis.—An Awmerican correspondent
writes us from Paris on the 25th January : “Eve.
rything is as guiet here as aMa day fair. The
republic seems most mirnculuuu[;r to getalong of
itself. My confidence in it is constantly on the
increase. It seems, indeed, to be proof against all
assanlts, and equal to any emergency. T'he mon
archists have concerted a thousand plaus for up.
setting it, but it invariably upsetsthem They are
now coming to their senses, and admit that they
will have to let it pass. But the commercial sys
tem of France is most deplorably defective : and
the government, anxious as lf‘wy are o avoid
remedying it, will soon have to take the bull by
thie horns.”
! R R L
- Bowmarnwest ny meass or Bartooxs.—The
Presse of Vienna has the following :—“Venice is
. to be bombarded by balloons, as the lagunes pre
vent the approach of artllery. Piveballoons, each
twenty three feet in diameter, are in construction
at T'reviso, In a favorable wind the balloons will
be launched and directed as near to Venice as oS
sible, and on their being bronght o a vertical po
sition over the town, the fire will be givenby elee
tro magnetism. Each of the five bombs aflixed to
the balloon isin communication by means of a
long isolated copper wire with a large galvanie
battery placed on the shore. The fusce is ignited
by connecting the wire. The bomb falls perpen
dicularly, and explodes on renching the ground,—
By this means twenty-five bowmbs a day may be
thrown, supposing the wind to be favoruble.” An
experiment made at T'reviso on the Gth, succceded
completely,”
The bargne Oxford, Capt. Manran, which sailed
from this port January 11, for San Francisco, with
63 passengers, was spoken 26th ult., lat. 314 lon,
00, Her passengers were ull well.—Boston T'imes.
Dockx Roor.—This valuable root is raised in
great abundance by the Shakers, from the seed,
That eultivated by them is said 10 contiin six times
the strength of that which grows spontaneously.
Three families of the Shakers mi.«-a‘ eight tons of
it last year. It is from them that Mr. Charles
Morse Jr. obtains the large quantities of it that he
nses in making his valuable compound. My,
Morse makes very free use of the sarsaparilla in
his preparation, bt considers it very inert when
compared with the other ingredients which he
uses. His compound is now sold by almost eve
ry druggist and apothecary, and by many others
thronghout the country.
E 9" Mr. A H. Stillwell, at his bookstore , has
for sale, Hawkes' Emollient Cold Cream Shaving
Paste, which is said to be a superior article for
shaving.
0 Dr. Kerrxy, it will be seen by reference
to his advertisement, will be; in this city, on Wed
nesday and Tharsday of next week.
U 7 David Benedict Esq., has been appointed
Postinaster at Pawtucket.
Democratic Mectings.
I[P Cranston.—A meeting of the Democrats of
Cranston, will be held at Job Wilbur's hotel, I\'nh;hu-v.lle,
on WEDNERDAY, March 7th, at 6 o’clock, p, ~ for the
puspose of choosing delegates to attend the Etate and Dig
trict Conventions, to he held in Providence, on the 13th
day of March next, By order of the Commitice.
I% North Providence.—At Janes H. Angell’s
Hotel, (Centre Miils,) on THURSDAY LVENING, March
Bth, at 7§ e’clook, JOS. T, BISSON, Com.
¥ Glocester.—At a:fl‘nuguo‘n hnt?i, x;t i‘h—epuch
ot on SATURDAY, Mareh 19th, at 7 o% lock, p. m.
ALEXANDER EDDY, Committee.
F ¥ Burrillville.— At the house f Duty Lapham,
on SATURDAY, Maich 10th, at 3 o’clock, p, .
By order of the Committee,
b Kast Greenwich.— At the Court fioiise, SAT
URDAY EVENING, March 10th, at 7 o’ lork.
Ry order of the Commi ‘e -,
S ————
Brighton Market,—THurspa v, March 1, 1849,
[Reported for the Boston Jdonrnal,)
At market during the week 575 Becf Caitle, 2250 £ hieep,
and 800 Swino,
Prices—Reef Cattle—Extra $675; first quality §6 Longo
50 ; wecond qunm‘v 3% 50a86 ; third quality $5.
Sheep—~Salos Wostern stall fed Fheep §2 50087 20 per
head, as i quality ; Northern &1 58483 50 per head,
Swine—At whotesale, for New York Hogs 5¢ ; Ohio Hogs
at wholesale 3ie ; at retail 5ia64
Married,
In this city, 27th uit,, by Thorndike C. Jameson, Gip
von B. Wixon, uf New Bedford, to Many J. SENNERSON,
of Fairhaven,
On Tuesday, 27th nit.. by Re -, T, T. Waterman, My,
Jostam Davie 1o Miss Exya P, Evstman, both of Boston,
~On the 6th uit,, by Rev J, N, Granger, Rev. Gronae 1,
Hovey, of Bostun, to Miss Axva M. Fineey, of this eity,
=0 the 221 uit., by the sume, Ricuann H, Kick 1o
Many Rean, both of Boston. ——oOn the 20t ult,, by the
SAme, Seru SiMmons, Jroto Many A, Norcross, both of
Boston.
Oun the 28th ult., by the Rev. Doet, Hall, My, Asa K. Por-
TERto Miss Cowngria K., second daughter of James G.
Arintngton, Esq,
Al the parsonage of the Methodist (Chestnut street) Epis
copal Chiurch, afternoon of the st inst by Rev. Mr. Allen,
Mr. Greonee Winirgrignn Fiiis, of Stoneham, Maes., to
Miss Axwn Eviza Drake, of this city,
In Valley Falls, Tuesday evi ning, by Geo. L. Dana, Bsq.,
Mr. Joskrn Core o Maky Wea THERNBAD, both of Cum
herland,
In Hartford, Fob, 2ith, Mr. J. A, Brooxen to Miss 1y-
OIA B Sriv s ten—Mr. Witeiam Sroosen fihisety,
to Miss Lvuia Avarsta Loveming, of New h'mlu-l, N.H.
fiied,
In this eity, on Monday lust, Emity Man A, davghter of
Clark amd Rebecea Kendall, aged 4 yoars and 3 months,
On the 24t ult, Pessron Franc 15, the only child of
Isainh W. and Ruby ¢, Graffam, aged 2 months,
On the 27th ult , Mrs, Sarey Grenxman, wife of the l:1e
John Greenman, i the 77th year «f her age.
(Fall River m‘nu please copy.)
On Satuzday last, Miss Axy Sanan Core, daughter « f
the late Mr. Juseph Cole, nged 10 years,
At his residence, in Nort Providence, 27th ult,, Samuge
B. Musmronn, Esq., in the 59th vear of his age.
His funeral will take place this afternoon, at 2 o’clock,
from the First Baptist church, in this city, Relatives and
friends are invited t attend.
In Johinston, on Thursday, March Ist, Mr. Starmen Ax-
GELL, in the 4‘-0 year of his age.
Funeral to-morrow, Sunday, at 10 o'clock, Relatives
and friends are invited to atiend,
In Shatersville, on the 10th ulte, of influenza and asthmna,
Mr. Wa. Howaan 8 ~ aged 51 years ind 15 days
In Middistown, with ult, Mrs. Parigwes Intsn, widow
of the late (imr Irish Esq., in the 78th year of her age.
In Foster, 26th ult., Pergo Prace, Esq., Post Master at
Mount Vernon, P, O, aged 70 years,
In Newport, %ah ult., Avramam e, an Englishman
by birth, aged m‘,em. He belonged to the 9th Regiment,
And died of n dirense contracted 1 Moxteo.——=¥ i the
25th, Baman Warnon, youngos: ehitd and only daughter
of David J. and Eliza {l Goula, aged 14 months and 13
dn{o.——(m With, Mr, Jussr Duxsam, aged nbout 75 years,
n Bellingham, Mass,, 2ith ult y Mrs. Ameria Wicor,
wife of Jarul O, Wilcox, Bwq., in the 46th yeur of her ulge
In l‘{wimlom. st ln-t.,‘gn. Axx Vareis, wife of Dr,
LR, Vaille, of that place, and danghter of Rev, B, 1. Pit
man, furnm'y of Newport, aged 35 years, :
In Somerset, 201 h f:nL, Mis. Susan B Cuace, wife of
Mr. Daniel Chiace, and danghter of the late Alexis hon'o,
of Partington, in the Bd year of her sge.