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Bteeatsbasg. Thursday, April IT, 1851.
* U IM FMMUCIM.
There I* imperfection in every lew of
human enactment. and hence it U that we
ahoutd no! be overmuch cumbered hy pon
derous tomes of municipal atstdws, but trust
rather to the perfect law of nature. That
alote reaches every case, and can infallibly
detect trifling aberrations as well as glaring
enormities. That has in its cole no ," im
perfect duties" and trifles, to which it can
not condescend but must give the dignified
excuse that dt minimis non curat lex.
Vat a cannot call it a "higher law'' than
that of man's enactment, (or lljo lulterw hence
oace expressed becomes a part of nature's
bode, and au inlringuient of it then will
. meet with inevitable punishment; for the
divine law of him who instituted human
government and enjoined obedience to the
state, is one which executes itself.
Do the fanatios of New England think
they should b9 blessed if they could abrogate
a law of Congress and blot out the Constitu
tion of the Union? l)o they oxpect to profit by
or enjoy a state of anarchy and lawlessness ?
Or do they think their own cotton lords can
fatien under a part of the law, while they
themselves trample upon another part ? Do
they believe the South would bend the pliant
binges of the knee while the North urroga
tod a superiority and set all law at defiance ?
Ifault of Danville.
From the annual report of this bank to the
Auditor General we gather the following
atatistics as to its condition ou the 4lii ot
November last.
Capital stock #105,770 00
Notes in circulation 186,970 00
Due other Banks 11,771 24
Due State Treasurer 6,465 42
Due Depositors 27,989 33
Profit aud loss 6,557 02
Total liabilities 344,513 01
Specie #16,726 59
Notes of other banks (solvent) 7,850 00
Checks end draft. £2B 80
Hills discounted ' 257,589 33
Dee by other Banks 55,097 72
Sonus • 4,000 00
6b Protest account 20 57
Total resources 344,513 01
Judgements have been obtained on #7,010
of thu above stated bills discounted.
On the sth of November 1850. a divulcud
was declared of 3 per cent, on the capital,
amounting to #3, 173 10.
Sad Accident.
Oo Wednesday of last woek a serious ac
cident occurred in the family of Air. Wil
liam Dark at Carbondala, Luzerne county.
A young daughter of 12 years was for a
moment left lo take charge of the house,
when the dress of a little girl, still younger,
caught fire. The sister at first attempted to !
smother this fire by wrapping her own
clothes around the lilile girl. But this was
in vain, and the two girls were soon envel
oped in flames. They ran into the street,
but no one could come to their assistance
until ilia clothes were all burnt from them,
and their bodies most shockingly scarred and
burnt. The younger one soon died, and the
older one is scarcely expected to survive her
pain and suffering.
Knocking tke "Knockers."
Mrs. Swisshelm on one day of last week
held communication with some of the "spir
its" from Knockeiiand, but the revelations
did not convert the lady of the Visiter. She
was finally told that her deceased mother
would not converse with her from the other
tide of " Avernus because Mrs. Swisshelm
would not believe in the " knocking*," and
. hereupon Mrs. 8., quickly retorted "That
is not true. No matter who or what you arei
that is folic." She says "We were a little
out of temper, and impious enough lo say,
if the angel Gabriel trough us any such
message we would tell him he iied."
W The Governflr has appointed Sanrasl
BeU, Et-q ,of Rea'n; an Associate tfi'Hge
of :be Couits of Berks county, in place of
the late Judge High, whoee commission ex
pired ou the day of his decease.
tW Eleven Lottery dealers, in the Dela.
ware mud Mary land lotteries, were arrested
onedsy last week, at Boston, and every one
of them sent lo jail. The gsmblers have
MM no better—some twenty regular estab
lishments have recently been broken up, aud
the parties arrested.
DEATH WARRANT or Ccoaua PIIAROAII.—
We learn that Governor Johnston bos issued
his warrant fixing the 29ih of August next
fur the execution of George Pbaroah, recent
- ly convicted in Chester county for tho murder
of the school teacher, Rachael Sharploss.
ty.Tho Supreme Court lies sustained the
•writ of error in the dase of Martin Peifer t>i.
Ihe Commonwealth, end ordered e new trial
■for Peifer. The ground of this decision is
"hat the jury were allowed to separate for
several days between the time tbey were
nworn and the day of trial.
MADENOISELES Lovo baa been offered ten
thousand dollars a pieoa for two of bar bo rac
es, the New Vork Mirror says. She has
eight beautiful auimals, which, it is said, one
hundred thousand dollars could not buy.—
Her receipts at Niblo's average ten thousand
doHars a week, the same paper says.
QT There is a poultry establishment m
Lebanon 120 feet in length, 9 in breadth,
and 12 in heighth, with a number of apart
ments. Seven dozen eggs are layed daily
SPA Steamboat makes tri weekly trips
between Tunkbaooock and Piustoo, carry
ing passengers, merchandise, coal Ac.
■ f nfi-'m J.I-I 1"T '"I"
•' °" r
April nuojber ootitiinsa
with hat Unibmlin hat hand exulting over
the triumphant deliverance of thiuoliildran
of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. The
Keepsake is published by JOHN 8. TAYLOR,
New York, at #I,OO per annum.
The .America n Phrenological Journal for
April, eontaina a likeness, with o phrenologi
cal examination of the character of the pdl
ebraled American Ornithologist, JOHN J.
Aunt son. The Phrenological Journal is a
cheap and valuable publication, and does
not confine itself, as its title would indicate,
alotie to Phrenology, but other departments
of science are ably treated in its pages—
making it a very desirable work. Messrs.
Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York
price#!,oo per annum.
Wo have from the same publishers Tin
Student for April—a monthly reader, devoted
lo the physical, moral, and intellectual im
provement of youth, published at #I,OO per
annum. v
The United Statei Monthly Law Magazine
for April comuins a vast fund of the most
useful legal intelligence, and is certainly
meriting a liberal support from the profession
it hns a well written article on " The nature
and nielhed of legal studies," another on the
Copyright law, and several hundred recent
American decisions, among them we are
pleased to find a great number which are of
practical importance. Among these is a di
gest of the cases in the 6th Barbour's Now
York Supreme Court Reports. The number
also contains a fine portrait of John Living
ston, Esq., the editor of the work, aud who |
is also Secretary of the American Legal As.
focialion. The terms of the £prk are #5 a
year.
Will the publisher be good enough to send
us the March number of the work. That
never reached us, aud we prize the work too
highly to think ot having our set brokeu.
North American Miscellany. —The 11th
number of this weekly miscellany garners
Up the following bits of fine fruit from the
current literature of the day: "The Crocodile
Battery ; Peatl Divers, - a tale of Mexico ;
Tho story ot a picture ; Confession of an
Attorney ; How to manage a husband; The
F'orget me not; Matrimony made easy;
Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Anecdotes of I'a
gaunini; Bill slicking; London cabmen;
Peace and War ;The Mothers test; Random
Records ; Chronicle of the week; The Book
World.
Terms #3 a year, or 6f cents a numbor.
Published weekly by A. Palmer & Co., 111,
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Ey We have been favored, by the pub
lisher, with a neat little pamphlet of 24 pa
ges, entitled a "Journal of the Sufferings and
Hardships of Capt. Parker H. French's Over
land Flxhibilion to California, which left
New York City, May 13, 1850, and arrived
at San Francisco, Dec. 14." The Journal
was written br Mr. William Miles, one of
the ill-fated exhibition, aiul transcribed and
prepared for the press by his brother, Mr.
Wesley Mdes, of Carlisle, Pa., the whole
forming a highly graphic and interesting de
j ecription of the route and the scenes through
! which they parsed.
The retail price i 15 cents per copy-
Agents, Booksellers, Merchants, &c., by ad
dressing Wesley Miles, Carlisle, can be fur
nished with any number of copies at a very
liberal discount, by accompanying their or
ders with the cash.
Newspapers must be Paid for.
A case was tried yesterday, in the Com
mon Pleas, bofore Judge Kelly, in which
the right of a newspaper publisher to exact
payment from a subscriber, who neglects or
t refuses to give notice to stop bis paper, was
i fully tested. Tha case was that of Philip R
■ Freas vt. Jacob Haas. It was an action lo
r recover the subscription price of the Ger
, mantown Telegraph for 12 years. The pa
[ per was left at a public bouse in the vicinity
. ot the defendant's stall, in Callowhill street,
(thiwlefeiidaut being a butcher at the time,)
, at the express direction of Mr. Haas, where
it continued to be left for the space of time
' stated. The defence was two fold—lst, the
statue of limitations ; and 2d, that the paper
should have been left at the residence of the
I defendant, as it was known lo the Plaintiff.
, William S. trice for plaintiff; F. C. Brightly
• | for defendant.
Jude Kelly charged the jury, that where a
person subscribed /or a pp#r, B ive di
rections where it shall tie left, ho is bound 10
pay for it, unless he prescribes the time for
which it shall be left. If a subscriber wish
es to discontinue his paper, it is his duly to
square his accounts and then give notice for
a discontinuance. If a paper is sent lo a
persou through the Post Office, and he take*
it out, he is bound to pay for it. If a sub
scriber changes his residence, it does not
follow that the carrier must take notice of it,
and a delivery of the paper at the place
where he was first directed to leave it, is a
delivery to the subscriber, unless the pub
lisher receives notice to discontinue or send
it to another place.
The statute of limitations did not affect
the case, ss the defendant had paid some
thing on account in June, 1844. Verdict for
plaintiff, #22,50. — Sun.
GEM.CAMEXOR.- The Harrisburg Union, of
last week, says—Some of the letters written
from Harrisburg have recently represented
General Cameron as being hostile to the
nomination of Cot. Wm. Biglar, as the next
Democratic candidate for Governor.—Thi|
we have reason to know, is not the fact, and
wa am authorized to state that tha Generel
will give Col. Bigier bis warm support iu the
' Convention, and use his best exertions to se
cure his election after he is nominated.
17 Rev. Mr. Tdsiin, late Chaplain to the
Uuited Stales Senate, last week lectured at
Po.tsville on the subject "Do ipectru ofpeorl"
Tickets 25 ents, and all the raonby made out
of the spooks, hobgoblins, and knockings to
be devoted to charitable purposes. What
elsver spirit I
TiHtm lit"" iserareJufofarffareni "n iiiii
End oi the Fugitive Slave Cam—Depar
ture or 81ms for lav.nosh
Tha Boston pspsre of Saturday contain
tha following account of the termination of
the Fugitive Slave Chee :
After the decision of Judge Woodbury •
last night, that there was no ground re inter
fere with the certificate of Mr Curtis reman
ding Sims, preparations began re be made
to convey him back. The brig Acorn had
been hauled to the end of Long Wharf, hav
ing been previously fitted up lor an extra
number Of passengers. During the night,
the Court Honse Square was filled with a
drowd who were collected in knots discuss
ing the- matter anil occasionally hooting at
the officers. There was a number of females
amongst tnem.
Not the least attempt at violrnce was
made. Mr! Colver and other persons in tho
crowd occasionally denounced the proceed
ings, and culled for the thunderbolts of Hea
ven to be poured down upon them. When
the procession reached the wharf, the brig
was found to be already, with the steamer
Hornet alongside, with the steam up. Sims
was taken immediately into the cabin. The
Acorn bad two cannon on board io protect
from any assault on the passage. The
word was given to let go her fastenings, and
she was soon under way.
About thirty police officers accompanied
the vessel as far as the steamer went, as a
protection from officers of this city, inclu
ding D. S. Deputy Marshals Savin aud Byrne
accompanying the fugitive in the vessel' to
Savannah. Just as the vessel was about to
leave the wharf some ot the orowd sang sev
eral hymns, such as "From Greenland's Icy
Mountains," "Oh ! there will be motfTning,"
"At the judgment seat of Christ,', "Be thou,
oh God, exalted high, Ac."
On 3 man, just as Sims was going below,
called out to him to preach liberty to the
slave.—nnd as the brig was departing, the
Rev. Mr. Foster, orthodox minister, of Con
cord, made the following prayer
"A'niighty God! Thou seest this poor
man, one of Thy children, borne away by
oppressors—Thou art the friend of all who
suffer wrong,—and we have now no hope
but in Thee ; that hope is still unshaken;
Thy promises endure forever, and now we
beseech Thee to show Thy power and love
in blessing this dear brother who is carried
by force to the land of whips and chains—
oh, God, make him a missionary of power
to awaken a love of justice and liberty that
shall end in the speedy overthrow of the ac
cursed system which now causes millions of
bleeding hearts. In mercy, Heavenly Fath
er, do Tliou destroy the wicked power whioh
rules us—give us righteous men to adminis
ter just laws, forgive the wickedness of our
rnlers and lead rhem to true and lasting re
pentance, pity the wretched man who now
goes in fetters over the. waves—pity and
bless bis brethren in chains—haston the day
when all men shall be free and Thine shall
be the Glory—Amen."
It was just five when he left; the Aboli
tionist Vigilance Committee met at si, and
passed a resolution respectfully asking the
people of Massachusetts to toll the bells in
the several towns, as the intelligence reach
eu them of the return of a fugitive slave
from the Commonwealth. They have also
appointed a meeting for public religious
services on Ihe occasion. A person with
rather loud lungs, as the procession passed
down Stste street, recited the events of the
Boston Massacre that occurred in that street
belore the revolution.
The fugitive was warmly and comlortably
clad in garments provided by the U. S. Mar- j
shal. He stated that he wa9 willing to go
during the evening,—he refused to sign any I
; more papers drawn up by the Abolitionists,
" saying that he was tired of the business.
The military, in considerable numbers,
w ere at their Armories and Fsnueil Hall,
but there was no cause to call upon them to
i act in the matter, and this morning they
were dismissed from fur.her duty The chains
have been taken down from the Court House,
and it has resumed its usual aspect During
the night, Abby Fnlsom was found lying in
Ihe street, near the Temple, and refusing to
go home, was taken to the Watch House.
PURCHASE or SIMS.—We learn from Mr.
Fetridge, that he has puichaeed from the
agent of the Southern master, the slave Sims,
for the sum of #lsoo:—the slave to be sent
back to this city in six weeks flora this time,
after having gone through the necessary
forms of delivery in Georgia.
A Heavy Swindle. (
A man named David Leaman, engageJ in
the milling business, near New Hclland )
Lancaster county, after buying a large
amount of grain and flour on credit, and
converting it into cash, suddenly left for
"parts unknown," last week, leaving his
creditors to whistle for their money. The
amount of his swindling operations has been
estimated at from #15,000 to 20,000. He
hud lately purchased a mill property for
which he promised to pay on the first of
this month. A great deal of disappointment
has been occasioned by this affair.
ANOTHEB DODGE— Oneof lira Misa Ma
combs— which one ?—has commenced a
suit against the vocalist, Dodge—he of 8625
Jenny Lind ticket notoriety—for breach of
marriage promise. The Sherifl accompanied
Dodge from Lowell to Boston, where the
great ticket man obtained bail. Can Dodge
dodge that suit I — Daily Sun.
£7* The Rev. Wm. J. Clark, has resigned
he Rectorship 9 ( Christ Church, (Episcopal)
Williarosport, and will tasd charge of ai Insti
tution oi Learning, in Jhe city of Washing
ton,
IV When the case of Astrologer Roback
was called up in the Quarter Sessions of
Philadelphia, he WRS u on at invcntui, and so
his recognizance waa forfeited.
CF" The Commisaionera ol Clinton coun
ty are about to receive proposals for building
a new jail at Lock Haven.
CHANGE.—-The Postmaster General has ap
pointed 1. C. Howe Postmaster at Davidson
in Sullivan county, in the.place of A. C.
Wilber who is-now appointed Postmaster at
f New Laporle, Sullivan county in the place of
W. A. Mason.
I .....
17 A law has been passed fixing the aal
; laries of the County Commissioners of Berks
I at #250 per annum instead of #l*o as here
I tofore.
JUDGE WOODWARD has resumed the prac
tice of law at Wilkesbarro in connection
with his nephew Warren J. Woodward, Esq-
HP Webster, the unele of Mrs. Cosden,
has confessed that he was the murderer of
the Cosden family in Kent county, Maryland.
ty The resignation of Cornelius Darragh,
as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, was
accepted On ihe 4th in St., by Gov. Johnson
No successor baa yet been appointed.
f— - ■ HI " i
Arnit of Pratt.
Benjamin Pratt has beoQ arreated by the
Marshal's police and heldro bill in 98500 I
by Alderman Freomsfrotlme charge of ma- i
king and selling counter!® batik papwr,— |
arrest was raiuft on ffji oath of David
Moore, who alleges that the wife of Pratt
informed him that the latter had expended
S7OO in the purchase of a new lathe ami im
plements to get out a new plate for the sel
ling and circulating a .spurious issue. The
wilneee fuAhet stafes thatha purchased five
thousand fives on die jKtdburg Bank, and
nineteen handled' twos on nhe Lanceetef
Bank from two persons at the house of Pratt,
in Northumberland, for which he paid 9100
par thousand—the contract for the transfer of
the paper having been made with Pratt, who
alleges procured- these men to make the sale
The deponent obtained the notes -for other
persons, and did not pass any of there—
Moore was held to hail in SIOOO to appear
and testify in the case.
Ef The above paragraph is extracted from
the Philadelphia Ledger, and the individual
referred to, is not, as the paragraph intimates,
a citizen of Northumberland or of Northum
berland county, but of Montonr, where he
has residsd for some time. We are heartily
glad of bis arrest, if guilty, and hope he may
be visited with the utmost penalties of the
law; for the country in this section, has
been literally flooded with spurious bills of
late, and it is high.iittw the scoundrels were
ferreted out.— Miltonian. .
Breach of Promise Case.
We copy from the'Nbitt Ameeican, the fol-,
lowing report of a trial for breach of promise
which took place pefore the District Court of
Philadelphia on Tuesday last:
S. F. Earl vs. Esther F. Packer. Action for
breach of promise of marriage. The par
ties are residents of Reading. The plaintiff
alleges that Mrs. Packer, the delendant, en
tered into a contract of marriage with him,
and subsequent!) refused to carry out her
contract. The counsel for plaintiff stated
that the defendant was entitled to the inter
est for life of a large sum—he believed
equal to $30,000 per annum. The plaintiff
is a very yonng man, obviously youoger
than the defendant. He alleges that he has
suffered serious damages, in consequence ol
the long pending engagement, which induc
ed him to neglect his profession, afndghat its
terminatiea ihism hjni j""* of sicklies s,
&c. <Sbe plaintiff's counsel read a long cor
respondence between the parties, whieh ser
ved to relieve the usual tedium of a civil
trial. The plaintiff WB non suited upon the
strength of one of his letters produced by
the defendant's counsel, in which he stated
that he would give her three days time to
consider whether she would marry hi m or
not, and that "he would abide by the issue"
of her decision, whatever it might he. Messrs
Watts and Meredith for plaintill; Messr.
Shepherd, D. P. Brown, Strong, of Reading,
and Mallery, for defendant.
WEALTHY MEN or Nzw ORLEANS. —In tho
second municipality, New Orleans, there are
seventy persons whose aggregate wealth to
more than twelve millions of dollars, which
is about ona fourth of the whole assessed
real and personal property of the municipali
ty, This is certainly an instance uncommon
in America of the unequal distribution of
wealth. Throajjgrspns pay taxes upon
$360,000 worth oTassessed property, seven
on $250,000, six on $200,000, and thirteen
on SIOO,OOO, fifty persons on various sums
over $60,000.
A MAYOR FINING HIMSELF. —Mayor Kings
land has been fining the merohants of New
York city for obstructing the side walks with
their boxes, bales, and barrels of goods.
Some of the sufferers retaliated by keeping
watch over the large wholesale establish
ment of the Mayor, who is himself a mer
ohant. The other day they oaught tho May
or's employer's napping, entered complaint
before his honor and obliged him to fine
himself three hundred dollars.
OF Judge l'arsons has decided that a man
owns the ground in front of his house as ful
ly as any othei part of the premises, saving
Ifce pub'igja end repass, |
and consequently has a jight to use all the
force r.ecessary to compel any disorderly per
son t6 go away.
As WE EXPECT ED. —lt has been established
by a post moriem examination, that the man
Calleuder, of York, who died a few hours
after ensuring his life in the Harrisburg Life
Insurance Company, committed suicide by
taking arsenic. If so, the policy of insu
ranee which he sought ihus fraudulently to
convey the benefit to his family, is of course
vitiated and that by his own criminal act
The very purpose for which the crime is
committed, is defeated by the orime itself.
A SINGULAR CASE.— -A a lady in Cambridge
(Mass.,) died on Wednesday last—so the
phyici*K3 said—sc4 was laid out for burial
in her winding Motets, but from the fact that
the body still retained an apparent warmth,
though there was not rite slighest appearance
. of respiration, ir.terment was suspended. On
Sunday the lady opened her eyes and called
19 JICI husband, 'Albert, give me some wa
ter.' __________ _
OF Hood was the parent of that nncon
soious remark of the child of a drunkard,
who was said to take after his father: "Ah,
father leaves nothing to take."
RELATING THE TRACK. —The Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, are
about to relay their traek between Wilming
ton and Baltimore. Tfio Company have pur
chased six thousard tons of heavy rail, half
of which is from the Montonr Iron Works,
at Danville, Pa.
OT Of the Two hundred thousand souls in
Wisconsin, more than one hundred thousand
are said to t>e Germans. This race of men
are settling the country on the sources of the
Mississippi very rapidly, and in that region,
if in any part of the Union, the German
oharacter and oustoms seem likely to im
press themselves on the population.
EFThe Daughters ol America in Lancas
ter—an aaeocfatior started there some two
years since—number two hundred and twao
ty member*, and ire worth oreroa# thous
and dollars
A Merited CompUmeur
The PiUthtrg Post in noiicHfeMr. Bucks
lew's speech in the Senate ort the repeal U
the kidnapping law Of 1847, says:
" But the great speech of the day, and'l ,
may say of the session, fas that of M$ ,
Bockalew the young and Talented Senator ,
from Columbia. He completely electrified ,
the crowded chamber by the magio of his ,
eloquenoe, and' the resistless weight. of his (
argument. His whole speech abounded in
beautiful thought and masterly argument,
and Was such a speech SS became a true
democrat. He is, beyond question, the meet
eloquent moo in the Senate, and bids fair to
beoome one of the very first of Pennsylva
nia's great men. Columbia may justly pride
herself upon her young, but able ami gitied
representative.
ADVERTISING A WiXE—ln the rates of Ad
vertising ol the " Kentucky Flag," we find
that the Editor charges five dollar* "for ad
vertising a VfifeJ 1 The item is included in
the regular Boale of prices. We suppose
there is small income from that source in the
region of Maysvtlle, and hence the unusual
ly high charge fur notification to the publio
that a wife had left Iter husband's domicil
for better or worse. Or perhaps the Editor
considers himself entitled to as good a fee
for announcing the separation of husband
and wife, as the clergyman received for
uniting the parties—the husband being as
willing to pay the charge in the one case as
in the other!
HT Great sensation has been lately caused
at Florence, by an intended duel with pistols
between two countesses, in ooncequeuce of
a political dispute. One of these ladies had
taken an active part in the war of Italian in
dependence, and the other was the wife ot a
distinguished diplomatist, The combatants
were on the ground, and the pistols charged,
when fortunately their husbands arrived, and
put a stop to the affair:
OF The plan of some of the sharks con
gregated about Harrisburg, to fleece a gen
tleman of thirty or forty' thousand dollars
has blown up, and the opsra'.ors left to pur
sue some other game. The gentleman at
tempted to be swindled has had a bill be.
fore the Legislature during the entire session
and was told that it could not be passed un
less the above sum was paid.— 'Harriaburg
Union.
GROG SHOPS TOR WOMEN.—A respectable ,
New York paper asserts that there are cer
tain secret places in that city, furnished in
tho most georgous style, and patronized most
exclusively by women of wealth and fash
ion, who go there first lor ice creams, then
for claret, champagne, brandy, mint juleps,
sherry coblers/ and brandy slings. " This is
no fancy sketch , there are at this momeut
scores of womon of the first rank of sooiety
who have become inveterate tiplers at these
places."
Very Characteristic.
During the gloomiest period of tho Mexi- L
can war, General Houston sent the following
racy note to a brother soldier.
CAMP WEST or BRAZOS, April 6, 1836.
Mar.—: I wish that a company of spies
woukl range as suggested by you. The
army increase-) and the enemy do not ad
vance as yet, Re iilforceinents are arriving
fram the East. The army i-* 'in good spirits,
and the Guneral sober.
Your ob't serv't.
SAM HOUSTON, Com-in-Chief.
The Plurality Law of Massachusetts has
been signed by the Governor, and is there.
foro a law. Where there was no choice ot
Congressmen on Monday the next trial will
settle the mutter, as then the candidates hav
ing the highest number of votes will be
eleoled.
tjr A watchman at NorrUtown on one
niglit of last week caught a burglar in a
store, who was a stranger and gave his name
as William Moore of Danville, Pa. lie was
committed to jail.
OT A very serious fire occurred at DuM
more, Luzerne county, on Friday of last
week, by which, we are informed, nine
buildings were destroyed, and a large amount
of personal property.
THE NEW COUNTY— We observe in the
late prodeedings of the Senate that the 'Mon
ongahela county' bill has been defeated by a
vole of 12 to 12, —nine members absent or
not voting
. RHODE ISLAND. —The ProviJence Journal,
Whig, says, the General Assembly of that
place, now stands, including the Lieutonant
Governor :
Whigs.- Democrats. Vacancies.
Senate, *l4 16 2
House, 36 34 2
50 50 4
THE LATEST CASE or SEDUCTION.—A mar
ried woman was, on Friday evening, bound
over Alderman Simpson to answer the
charge of misdemeanhr in seducing a young
man. It wss proved before the Alderman
that she had rented a room in which she
kept het poor victim tho greater part of tho
past winter. The young man is but eighteen
years of age, nnd the'suit was brought by
his father. What noxl.— Tcnntylvanion.
A WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONNENTTON is to be
held by the friends of ' Self Government
aud Human Equality" at Akron, Summit
county Ohio, ou Wednesday, 28th of May
next.
OF Tbe people of Danville are handing
around a subscription to purchase a fine gold
watch and chain for Senator Frailey, as a
present tor bis defenod of Montour county
in tbe Senate. No person is allowed to auL*
scribe more than 50 cent*. Well Mr. Frailey
is a very rioMish politician and legislator, and
needs to be well watched.
CANAL COMMISSIONER. Perry and Fulton
oounty have chosen delegates to the Read
ing oenvention end instructed there in favor
of JOHN B. Basra* Esq of Carl it Is for .Ca
nal Commissioner
PENNSYLVANIA LKGI9LATURE-
Harrisburg, Aptf! 9. '
Crabb moved to
13th leftUm, by providing tbtf" MjpkAer ■
there shall be bat three Judgee, .ieapPd of
four, In tbe First Judicial &iricl,„ yhich
was agreed to—yeas 22, nays 9'.' He moved
alee so to amend ay to inorsmse the salaries
of the Judges of the District Court of Phila
delphia to 92000^
Mr* Packer moved to amend the amend*
ment by fixing the salaries of the Judges of
tbe District Court at 92590, which was '
agreed to. ">- v '
Mr. Konigmacher moved further to amend
the section, so as to increase the salaries of
the Judges in tbe Lancaster District to 6-000,
which was agreed to—ysas 10, uays 20.
Exetuhot Settion —The Senate, meeting
this afternoon, went into Executive session,
aud confirmed the following nominations;
George Chambers, to be an Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, in place of Thorn •
as Burnside, deo'd.
James T. Uglo, to be Trcsideut Judge of
the Fourth Juioiai District, in place of
George W. VV oodwatd, whose term has ex
pired.
James Garduer, to be an Associate Judge
for the County of Blair.
James A. Gardner, to bo an Associate Judge
for the County of Warren.
John C. Kurtz aud Jonathan Kropper, to
bo Assooiute Judges for the County of Sum
ersot.
Ifarrisburg, April 12.
Pills Acted On —The bill U> incorporate
the Anthracite Bank of Tamaqua, came up
in order on third reading and was passed fi
nally—yeas 5, nays 12.
The bill to charter the Farmers' Bank of
Pittsburg came up in order on third reading,
and was passed finally—yeas 17, na>s 14.
Afternoon Sestion —On motion of Mr.
Buckalew, the Senate re.'umod the consid
eration of the bill to ra-annsx the courtly of
Montour to the county of Columbia, the
question pending being a motion to strike
out all after the enacting clause, aud insert
a provision annexing several townships now
within the limits of tbe new county, to tbe
county of Columbia.
Mr. Buckalew modified his proposition by
adding a new section, authorizing the citi
zens of the said townships after their re-an
; nexation to Columbia, to determine by a
' vote of the people, whether they would re
j main in the County of Columbia, or return
to Moulojr. Agree J to. 1
The bill was then passed a second reading
aud was ordered'to be engrossed by a vote 1
of 16 to 15.
HOUSE —The Senate amendment authori
zing the issue of small notes to the amount
of $1,000,000, and applying $500,000 to the
North Branch Canal, $400,000 to tbe Inclin
ed Planes on the Portage Railroad, SIOO,OOO
to straightening rhe curves on the Columbia
Railroad, aud setting apart $250,000 to the
sinking fund, was taken up.
j Mr. Peuuiman addressed the House in op
; position to the amendment, ami Mr. A. E.
Brown in favor.
Mr. Broomall moved to strike out the Sen
ale amendment and insert another, appro
priating all the money IU the Slate Treasury, <
not otherwise appropriated, to the North
Branch Cansland to avoiding the Planes ou
the Portage Railroad ; ono half of the money
to be appriuteJ to oach. Disagreed to.
The question recurring on die amendment
of the Scual*.
Mr. Briudle called lite previous question,
I which was seconded, and main question was
• ordered To be put
j On concurring iu the Senate amendment,
' the yeas and nays were called. Yeus 16 i
nays 78. Adjourned.
| Night Session.—'On motion of Mr. Packer,
! the amendments to a bill incorporating the
Washington Hose Company were taken up
{by a vote of 49 to 36. (This bill contains
■ an amendment incorporating the Susquehan
'ua Railroad Company ) Messrs. Penniman
i and A. E. Brown addressed the House in
| opposition to the bill, and Mr. Packer in fa
j vor.
I The first suction being before tbe House,
Mr. Penniman ofTerud an amendment, re
stricting lite company to bunding a road on
ihe Eastern shore of the Susquehanna river ;
which, alter discussion between Messrs.
Packer, Penniman, Bigliam aud Bottham,
was lost—yeas 45, nays 46.
Harrisburg, April 14, 1851.
SENATE. —The bill to re annex certain
townships in the couuty of Montour to the
county of Columbia, was then taken up o;i
its final passage, and nexativod by a tie voto (
as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Bailey, Buckalew, Crabb, 1
Fernon, Forsyth, Futiou, Guernsey' Huge, 1
Hugus, Jones, M'Casliu, Muhlenberg, Pack- 1
er, Sanderson, Savery, Sliimer—l6.
Nays—Messrs- Jdrooke, Csrothers, Car;Gn, '
Cunningham, Frailey, Frick, Ha-lett, Ires,
Konigmacher, Lawrence, M'Murtrie, Ma
lone, Myers, Robertson, Walker, Matthias, '
Speaker—'
The bill repealing certain laws exempting '
properly from taxation was discussed at con
siderable length, and finally postponed until
tbe 4th of July next.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth was *
introduced and presenting a message from j
the Governor, returning the bill dividing the
State into Judicial Districts, with his objec
tions. The veto is based upon obvious blun- j
ders in the provisions of Ihe bill, and among
others a provision requiring All associate
judges to be learned in the law and requiring
Courts to be held on the same day, at differ- ,
ent points in the same district, with other c
errors of equal magnitude, and the whole
bill bearing evident marks of hasty and [
inconsiderable legislation. Adjourned. t
Afternoon Setsion.— Mr. Walker, from the '
Select Committee on the subject, reported
the bill relative to the Sunbury and Erie and t
Pittsburg and Susquehanna Railroad Compa- |
ny, with sundry amendments, and the bill 1
was subsequently taken up and passed— j
veaa 23, naya 3. ,
Eventng Session.—' The following bills were
severally considered and passed finally; y
To authorise the laying out of state roads q
i in Mantonr and CumberlattJcouniies t
Tbe new JndieM district district bill as
received from tbn||ottM.
The bill divoretdg Wrn. Meads and Eliza
[Still in sesswfO at 10 o'clock.]
HOUSE. —The fell to tegpl certain laws
exempting property from taxation, was taken
up and passed . -
the resolutions relative to the tariff* were
then taken and after some discussion
postponed for the present, yeas 47, naya 41, ,
The bill repealing the sixth section of th,
anti-kidnapping law of 1847, was taken ap
and passed finally, JL'
Tho House refused, by a vote of yeas 45,
nays 51, to take up the bit providing for e
system of froe banking in this Common
wealth.
The bill relating to the Siaquehanna Rail
road passed the House finally, as it canto
from the Senate, ft contains authority for
the Company to build on either side of tho
Susquehanna.
Tho bill relating to the eleeliott of Judges,
and to regnlato certain judicial districts in
the northern part of the Stats, also passed 11.
■tally. Adjourned.
The General Appropriation Bill was im
mediately lakeu up and passed—yeas 72,
nays 22.
li appropriates $175,000 to the North
Branch Canal, and the same amount to the
improvement ef the Portage Railroad, and
any surplus remaining iu thu Treasuty to be
equally divided between tho two.
The bill also allows the oily and county of
Philadelphia six Jink as, at a salary of 924-
00 each. Three Judges of the Cistiici Court
and three of the Common Pleas.
There is noloan authorized by bill, and
the million small note issue was let out.
The llousu was still tit session at 10.
Harrisburg, April 15, 1311.
SENATE.—The Senate last night after my
report clos *l, took up the General Appropri
ation Bill as it came from the House, and
passed it finally without a division or amend
ment.
Tuesday —The Senate look up and concur
red in sundry House amendments to Senate
bills; lifter which the bill incorporating tho
Bache Institute Was tsk-n up and pawed-
The Secretary of the Commonwealth be
ing introduced, a few minutes before IS
o'clock, presented sevetdl communications
from the Governor, which were read, pend
ing a motion to adjourn tine the.
Mr. Speaker Matthias then arose and de
clared the Senate edjournei).
HOUSE.— Upon the assembling ot the House
this morning, a resolution of thagks was of
fered to the Hon. Jolt* Cessna, Speaker, for
tbe ability arid impartiality evtucad lit ittd
discharge of his official ditties, 4rtA adopted
unanimously.
The Senate Bill repealing the Bth section
of the ami kidnapping law Of 1817, was ta
ken up and passed finally—yeas. 54 ; nays
33, under a call for the previous question.
The House ihOu took d recess until half
past eleven o'clock. ,'
Upon re-assembling, the several commit
tees having made report, the Spuakoi addres
sed the members in a brief but eloquent and
happy speech. T.ie House thai adjourned
sine die. *
DEATH O,' IIU.V. WILLIAM MEATrY.
We received a tolugraphiu despatch last
evening, signed 11. S. M.tgraw, conveying
die melancholy intelligence of the death of
Hon. William Beatty. He died at Bdtlef,
ou Saturday last, in tho midst of his friends,
just when his talents and usefulness were
about being acknowledged. The honorable
deceased was a prominent candidate for
Canal Commissioner; and, had he lived, lie
would have been supported with zeal by his
many admffFrs. He was a good citizen, a
man of unquestioned ability, and a Demo
crat in deed and iu truth. He has gone
hence, to enjoy more enduring honors thsn
tlictse which awaited him here. Peace to his
ashed ! — Pcnnsylmmi tn
Iu Poor Credit.
A York correspondent givds the fol
lowing intcrosliiig list of gossip:
"It is said that au agent of Louis Napo
leon is in the oil) endeavoring to borrow
five millions of francs for his master. He
tried to obtain the money from Dr. Win. B
Moffat, the owner of the. Life Pills and
Phmmx Bitters; but although the doctor
raide the tour of England, Ireland and Scot
land with the Prince several years ago, add
has kept up an intimate correspondent with
him ever since, he refused to loan him the
francs. This refusal will doubtless prove a
bitter pill Jo Prince Louis; but I imagine that
the loan would have proved a bitter one for
the doctor had he granted it. I hardly think
that five millions of franc can be raised in
New York on such security as Louis Napa
!con can give.
tW The Harrisburg correspondent of the
Pennsyivanian fird?f dale of the JHk say*;—
"Tbe bill regulating matters between Col
umbia and Montour has passed both Houses,
MARRIED.
By the Rev. D. S. Tobias, on the 10th insf.
Mr. JOHN MoaitljoH of Cooper lowuship
Montour county, to Miss ELIZA HEIMSACK, of
Mahony tp.
On Thursday (be 10th inst., by Rsv. Charles ®
Kalbfns, Mr, JACOB L EVES, and Miss SARAH
Low, both ef Williamsport.
- V'
In Bloorasburg on Saturday morning, April
12th. Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Russell wifs
of Warren Russel, aged about 30 yean
In Bloomaburg, suddenly, on Friday mor
ning, April 4, Miov ELIZABETH, infant daugh
ter of Blias & Rebecca Hicks, aged 3 moeths,
end 13 days.
In Valley township, Montour county, on
the 2d inst., HA SHAH, daughter of Benjamin
and Hester MoMahon, in the 11th year of
her age.
In Danville, on Tuesday of last week,
JONATHAN SANELE, aged 31 years, leaving a
wife and one child to mourn bis loss.
In Dairy township, Montour county, on
Wednesday morning of lasi week, Cel.
TUOMAS MooAUEAb. in the B'lth veaj of bis
age,