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?Oh, dear I !? *h*k it? oh- no- no*
friend Uartoal I oannot allow that item
in tho bill.'
""?Yes, but you must. It is perfectly
just?and I shall never rest until it is
paid.
'Ipan't indeed. You couldn't holp
?the h >gs getting into my field; and then
you know friend Barton (lowering his
tone] my'gecsc were very troublesome!'
Tire shoemaker blushed, and looked
confused-; but farmer Gray slapped him
fantiliarly on the Bhouldcr, and Baid in a
liviy, oneerful way:
*Uon't think any more about it, friend
B&rton. And herenfter let us endeavor
to ' do as we would wish to be done by,'
and then everything will go on as smooth
as clock work.'
' But if you will allow that item in
th?? bill?' the shoemaker urged persev
' Oh^no, I couldn't do that 1 should
think it wrong to make y*u Pa}' *or
own or some of my 8 negligence in
leaving the bars/A'\vn<...
'But, the- (hesitatingly) thosogeese
I kilW three. Let it go for them.'
< ?i you did kill them? we ate them.?
co that is even. No, no, let the past be
forgotten, and if it makes better neighbors
, nml] friends of us, wo never need regret
what has happened.'
'Farmer Gray remained firm, and the
bill[vvas settled, omitting the item of corn.
Frofn that time forth he never had a bet
ter neighbor than tho shoemaker. The
cow#, hogs, nnd geese of both Mould oc
casionally trespass, but the trespassers
were always kindly removed. The lesson
wfts not lost on either of thorn?for even
farmer Gray used to feel sometimes a
o little annoyed when his neighbor's cattle |
broke into his field. But in teaching the
shoemaker a lesson, he had taken a little
of it himself.
Annual Jlcjport of the Postmaster Gen
Tl>c annual report of the Hon. N. K.
llall, Postmaster General occupies nearly
eleven' columns of the National Intelli
gencer, and presents a voluminous expo
sition of the nature nnil extent of the
.postal arrangements of the country, the
change.* that have resulted from the law
?enacted last session, and the additions and
improvement* that arc yet needed to meet
the exigencies of our extended territory,
and the continuous enlargement of our
cpolitical and commercial relations. We
avail ourselves of the following abstract
of this interesting document, which we
find in the Republic :
3t nppcn&s that at the close of the fis
cal year?the 30th of Juno last?six
thousand one hundred and twenty mail j
routes were in operation in the United
rftatcs, forming an aggregate length of
196,200 miles, and involviog 'an'annual |
cost for the transportation of mails of
$3,422,754. The total annual transpor- j
tation amounts to 53,272,2.02 miles,* of
?which 8,560,707 miles arc performed up
on real roads, at an average cost of about'
cloven cents fivo mills per mile; 5,454,
1)02 miles in steamboats, at a cost of'
about'eight cents three mills per mile;!
19,726,580 miles in coaches, at about!
fivo cents three mills per mile ; and 10, -1
.#21,975 miles in modes not specified, at
about four cents eiglit mills per mile. As j
compared with the previous* year, this
statement exhibits an increase of 13,351
Jftiles in the length of inland mail routes, j
and of $547,110 in the.annual cost of
transportaion; but this comparison is ir-1
respective of tho routes in California and
Oregon. In the former State the annual
transportation amounts"to 537,47(3 miles,
and tho annual cost to $130,270; in the
lattor to 66,960 miles, at an annual cost
of $40,141. There are six foreign mail
routes?three of which are under contract;
with tho I'ost Office Department, at a'
cost of about $2,099 10 per mile; and
three under contracts with the Navy De
partmcnt, at a cost of about $2,420 10
I?r mile.
! During the year 5,330 postmasters'
were appointed, nearly half of them fill
vacancies occasioned by resignations ; 107 i
to fill vacancies occasioned by death;
206 in consequence of change of site ;
509 on tlie removal of prior incumbents; j
and 1,690 on tue establishment of now of-,
fices. -The entire number of post offices
in operation M 19,796; nearly 1,700
were established and 256 were dtsoontin-,
The gross receipts of the ' Department
for tho j<fcar described in this report were
$6,706,493 22 ; of which $5,369,242 76
were derived from letter (including for- J
eign) postage and stamjie sold, and $1,-!
035,1?0 09 from postago on newspapers,!
pamphlets, Ac. To form a true idea of!
lie revenue, however, allowance must be j
made for the sum payable to the British
post office, and for tho sum of additional j
appropriations. With these deductions,;
it no ordinary revenues of Uiq year stand
at $6,551,977 09; being an mereasojof
^999,000 41 over the proper revenues of
lime proceeding year.
?The expenditures during the same pe
riod were $6,'270i i01 60; but this in
cludes a payment to Britain and a pay
nfsnt under an award. Tho ordinary ex
penditure was $6,024,566 79, showing
a balance of receipts of $703,299 99.
The report glances at the position of the
post-offioo in this country half a century
since, and intimates the probable presen
Nation to ?Congress of tlie materials of an
interesting bistorv of our postal system.
In 1790'the number of post-offices Was
75, the extent of post-routes 1,875 miles,;
and.tho refenuo $37,935.
Within tho last two years the cost of
transportation has been much increased ; I
and the 'over increasing mail facilities, by j
ra|lwav, and on our rivers, will continue
tojlndd largely to the expenses of tho De- j
pigment. Under the terms of the act
of March last, the expenditure for the !
transportation of mails must be increased
from ten to fifteen per cent, per year, if
the wants of the country require it; and,
unless some change be made by Congress j
iri the Yule laid down for the government!
of the Department, other expenses will
n'ccessarily increase at nearly tho same
rate.
? In regard to commissions paid to post-!
masters, tho Postmaster General expres
ses a belief that tho al'lowanco provided
for UAder tho ordt-r made on tho 29th of I
October will be found incommensurate 1
with the increase of labor required under!
i?,? *
erul.
standing on the credit of the Depart
ment, tno receipts from postages ano the
appropriations mtitle by the acts of March,
1847, and Maroh, 1851?. The succeeding
year will necessitate farther aid from the
treasury. At present, no reliable esti
mate of the revenues of the current year
can be made in consequence of the non
settlement" of the postmasters' accounts
for the first two quarters.
An idea of the amount of free matter
sent and received at the Washington of
fice may-be formed from the that for
the two years ending in ^ast? /his
branch of business would have yielded
$4,240,820 at tho rates then in force, or
$1,795,020 a * ,be present reduced rates.
This doe? "ot include the free circulation
of nf,sPaP<:r8> ^?- It is thought that
the reduced rates of postage on printed
matter, and tiie extension of privileges to
publishers, will diminish that branoh of
revenue to at least $500,000 per annum.
The results of the experiment now in op
eration satisfy the Postmaster General
that there should bo not more than two,
or at most, three different rates of inland
postage on newspapers sent to actual sub
scribers, and thai thoso on periodicals
and other printed matter, including tran
sient newspapers should be reduced in
number, and merely assimilated to the
ordinary newspaper rates. This change,
he thinks can be adopted without mate
rially diminishing the revenue.
The Postmaster General disapproves of
tbe disposition manifested in some quar
ters to urge a further reduction in our in
land rates of letter postage, before the re
sults of the last reduction are properly
ascertained, lie points out the dissimi
larity in the circumstances of this coun
try and Great Britain, and maintain that
the result of the system now in opera
tion in* Britain admonish us not to attempt
a further reduction until justified by our
revenues. Looking at our entire ' "cuDi
stances, the sparse population of ruiense
sections, and the extent anil 01
the area traversed by our maiLv
concludes that we have, bcvonJ.WJ|aes
tion, the cheapest postages in tltf
The new contracts for the sujqj P?U>
nunierable articles required for uU 11 Mic
department ave described as more w* o
rable than former ones ; an intimation is
made that an improvement in the adhesive
qualities of postage stamps will liercancr
be observable.
An opinion is expressed?founded up
on information obtained by agents of the
department?that, if the contractors be
favorably disposed, the mail between
Washington citv and New Orleans can be
expedited twenty-four hours; that the
time required between Washington and
New York can be reduced to eleven
hours ; and that the mails from the South,
leavin" Washington in the afternoon, may
be delivered in New York in time to be
forw arded to Boston, Albany, and W est,
along the Erie railroad, by the morning
trains from New York. An effort will
also be made to preserve a t New \ ork a
a close connexion of the trains carrying
the mails which leave Washington in the i
morning with the evening trains which j
take such mails beyond New \ork. ljj
the negotiations now in progress to eflect
theso arrangements fail, the attention of
Congress will be called to other feasible
modes of expediting the great mails be-1
tween the Eastern and the Southern
States. ;
An appropriation is recommended to
meet the deficiency of salary allowable to
the special agents of the department, am
also to pay the salaries of supemumera-'
ries who have been employed in the dead
letter office. More than 4,000 pounds of
dead letters were received from California
during the last summer.
Congress is asked to legalize contracts
hat have been entered into for mail ser-:
ices in California and Oregon : and wen
ion is made of other contracts which,
liavc been formed with the 1 acific Steam-1
ship Company, with the mail steamers i
from New York to Havana. I he 1 resi
dent of the Panama Railroad Company
had given notice that on and after the |
first instant, the company would be ready j
to transport the mail across the Isthmus,
aii<l the Postmaster General has agreed to
avail himself of the arrangement?leaving
Congress to authorize the payment tliere
Tliat the contract with the Collins line
of mail steamers between New York and
Liverpool, require the performance of but I
twenty trips out and back during the year, j
As the English government had made
new arrangements by which the weekly trip
of the Cunard steamers were to be contin
ued throughout the year, it was deemed
liitthly importaut to continue the weekly
trips 'of the American steamers also.
Under these circumstances, Mr. Collins
was requested by the Post-office Depart
ment to continue his trips with an assu
rance of a reconinieiulation of adequate
?compensation. If therefore, the extra
trips arc confirmed, it is earnestly recom
mended that a prorata compensation, with
such addition, if any, as may be necessa
ry to give to the contractors a fair and lib
eral compensation for the extra service,
be authorized by Congress. The Post
master General remarks that " the unri
valled qualities and speed of the ships of
the line, and the very satisfactory man
ner in which the service has been per
formed, establishing the superiority of
American skill and enterprise m the con
struction of ocean steamers, and in ocean
steam navigation, entitle the proprietors
of this line to the most favorable consid
eration, and I cannot doubt that Congress
will make the appropriations recommen
ded.' , . i
It is hinted that satisfactory proposi
tions can probably be obtained tor a line
of mail steamers from New Orleans, by
way of Tampico, to Vera Cruz ; and the
importance of such an arrangement is de
scribed, in its commercial and political
aspects. |
Offers have been made to contract for ;
mail service from New York to Antwerp, j
from New York to Genoa, from New York
to San Francisco bv the Nicaragua routtf ?
from New York to Galway, from New,,
York to Venezcula, from Philadelphia i:<>
Havana, from Philadelphia to Antwerp,
and from New York to New Orleans, by
steamers in connection with a contempla
railroad across Florida. These applica
tions are to be laid before Congress.?
Particular stress is laid upon the proposi
tion for a-line of steamers from New York
to Galway, and a hope is entertained that
the subject of the establishment of a line
to Antwerp will be found to deserve con-1
sideration, more especially as the Belgian j
?fap! at is ready to co-operate in the !
project.
The renewed determination of Britain
to insist upon an excessive transit rate on
letters passing through .England-is allu
ded to as a subject of regtet. The libe
ral spirit manifested by the United States
in 1048, has not been reciprocated; and
as our convention with Great Britain can
be annulled by either of the two govern
ments after one year's notice to the other,
it is suggested that if satisfactory transit
rates be not soon agreed to, this Govern
ment should seriously consider whether
the notices provided for in the treaty shall
not be given.
Attention is called to the extent to
which the revenues of the Department are
j predjudiced by the co-operations of ex
[>ress companies ; and the revision of the
aws applicable to the subject is proposed
, with the view of making it highly penal
j for persons or companies to carry letters
' on certain specified routes outside of the
mails. Other penal enactments are,
sought to protect the property and opera-1
tions of the department.
The increasing abuses of the franking ,
privilege are noticed as another matter re- j
I quired legislative action. Severe penal- :
l ties are suggested to prevent the franking 1
as public documents things which are not
I such, the distribution of franked envel
opes to persons not entitled to the fran
[king privilege, and various similar practi
ces.
Authority is requested to increase the
compensation of special agents of the De
partment in California and Oregon to fa
cilitate the business of the Department in
those States.
The concluding paragraphs of the Re
port relate to the necessity of increased
' post-oflice accommodations for Washing
ton city, to a revision of the laws for the
government of the Department, the need 1
of placing the assistant Postmasters Gen
eral upon the same footing in respect to
; salary as the heads of Bureaus in other
Departments, and to the zeal and assidui
ty with which the officers and clerks of
| the Department have discharged their du
: ties.
Elopement and Arrest.
The excitement of falling walls and bro
ken limbs is slightly arrested this morn
ing by a case of fallen virtue and broken
| vows, which possess some new and pi
quant features. The story is thus told in
, the Herald:
The police of the city, for some time
past have been on the alert for a reported
: Hungarian, named Maximillian Benedict,
alias Baron Baumgartner, who stands
charged with the seduction of the wife of
Mr. G. II. Taylor, a wealthy merchant
j residing in London, who charges this
Hungarian refugee not only with the se
duction of liis-wife but inducing her to
' elope with him to this country, taking
| with them over $1200 worth of Mr. Tay
j lor's property, consisting of watches, jew
I elry and money. It appears by the affi
! davit made by Mr. Taylor before justice
McOrath, one of our efficient police jus
; tices, that about six months ago, the ac
cused was introduced into his family in
London as a friend and visitor, and also
represented as one of the unfortunate
Hungarian refugees. Soon after his ac
quaintance with the family, he commen
ced to make love to Mrs. Taylor, a young
and thoughtless woman, who on his per
suasive arts, concluded to elope with him;
and in so doing aided by the seducer,
robbed her husband of the above named
amount of property, and decamped.
As soon as the husband ascertained she
had eloped, supposihg they had gone to
France, he went in pursuit. First he went1
to Paris, and notlinding them there, h? ?
continued his pursuit to 1'russia, Austria
and other countries, in all of which he
learned the character of Benedict to be
known as a swindler, and had frequently
been arrested. Each of those places pro
ving unsuccessful, Mr. Taylor concluded
to come to New York and took passage
in the steamship City of Glasgow, which
arrived at this port on Saturday night
last. On inquiry after his erring wife, j
he ascertained that the swindler had pas-1
sed himself oft' on Mr. Genin, the hatter,
as one of the Hungarian refugees and fol
lowers of Governor Kossuth ; and was
then residing in the house of Mr. Genin,
who had taken him and his reputed wife
under his roof, as one of the Hungarian
fiatriots, Mr. Genin having been led to be
icve that his representations were true
from similar statements made to him by
other parties relative to the identy of Mr.
Benedict. On these charges preferred by
Mr. Taylor, officer Jones took both the
parties into custody and conveyed them
before Justice McGratli, and on searching
his person, there were found a gold watch
and chain, valued at ?250, together with
an elegant snuff box, worth ?50, and a
gold finger ring. All this property was
identified by Mr. Taylor as belonging to
him and of his own property, having been
stolen by this Benedict, who, it seems,
was not satisfied with stealing his gold,
but robbed him of his wife besides. The
magistrate committed the accused to pris
on to await a further hearing. The wife
was taken charge of by her husband, who,
it seems, is now willing to overlook the
past if she will never do so any more.
One of the Knives.?The editor of the
Cincinnatti Enquirer recently saw a man
who had a pocket knife upwards of eight
ty years old. The blade was about four
inches long, and an inch wide, rounding
at the point. It was manufactured by an
Indian in the Mackinaw country. The
blade had formed part of a sword taken
from a Frenchman in the celebrated
French and Indian war. The bone on
one side of the handle was from the thigh
of an Indian, and that on the other from
the thigh bone of an English soldier, kill
ed on the Heights of Abraham, in Cana
da, where Gen. Woolfe lost his life.
, It is understood that the President
has decided to remove Brigham Young
Aom the Governorship of the Utah Terri
j ory. We apprehend no other coursc was
,ieft to the Executive. His successor,
however, will need to be well supported if
his authority is to be respected.
Miss Lind, at Pittsburg, the other
day, received a pair of splendid diamond
bracelets, as a present from some one of
her ardent admirers there, which she re
turned with information that she never
received presents from gentlemen.
43T Charity is the holiest virtue.
Conjier'0 Clarksburg JRrgisfrr
"Equal Rights and Equal l.?>
CLARKSBURG, WEDNESDAY, DEC.17,1851 j
Wanted.
At this office, an Intelligent, active boy about
15 yean old, to learn the printing business. He j
must be industrious and steady. To such an one ,
a good opportunity is offered to learn the business,
and none others need apply.
Enterprise in Clarksburg.
If any one doubts the enterprise of the
citizens of Clarksburg, he will be convin
ced of his error, at once, by a visit to our !
town at the present time. On the site of
the fire of last spring, he would find two
fine brick fire-proof buildings, filled with ,
occupants, all driving a thriving business, (
and a third, fine large brick edifice nearly j
completed, which will make decidedly the
most attractive building for business, in
town. There are, also, several other build-,
ingb in contemplation, the foundation of
some of which is already laid, and will be
pushed rapidly to completion, as soon as
the weather permits. These, when com- j
pleted, will cover the whole ground on
Main and Kincheloe streets. The scene
of tlic late fire is now that of workmen
busily employed in replacing what the ele -
ment so unceremoniously destroyed. Mr.
Bartlett is industriously engaged in re
building his hotel, which we understand
he intends making three stories high, and
otherwise materially enlarging. And
other buildings will be commenced early |
in the spring. Within the coming year
Clarksburg will present an appearance
! much improved over that of the past.?
i Without a single exception, those who
were burnt out have resumed business?
but most of them in temporary locations
' until their former places can be rebuilt,
j While upon this subject, we would sug
igest to our leading men the propriety of
1 making an effort to effect an improvement
; in the appearance of our dingy-looking
old court house. Towards the refitting
of this building, Congress should, and un
doubtedly would, make a liberal appro
priation. The U. S. Court for the Wes
tern District of Virginia is held here, and
it is not only customary, but very proper,
that the national Government should con
| tribute a portion of the means for provi
ding a building in which to hold them.?
We could instance several cases in which
this has been done, and we have no doubt
that the precedent would be followed in
this. Wc merely throw out the sugges
tion for the benefit of those concerned.
.Election Returns.
The following are the returns from the
adjoining counties, in addition to what we ;
gave last week, as far as heard from:
Uitciiiegives the following majorities'
Johnson ISO, LoaKt too, Ilooook IOC,
Bassel 280, and Wm. L. Jackson for Del
egate 54. Pleasants gave Jackson about'
200, which secures his election.
Pleasants gave Johnson about 50 ma
jority.
Tyler gives Summers 80 majority, and
Doddridge gives about 130 for Johnson.
B. W. Jackson is elected Delegate from
these two counties.
Wood gives Summers 136 majority,
Bassel 305, and elects J. J. Jackson, Jr.,
Delegate by 19.
Marios gives Johnson 405 niaj. Mar
tin, Dem., is elected to the Senate, and
Z. Ividwell and Arnett Delegates.
Monongalia gives Johnson about 600
maj. McDonald and Lemley, Democrats,
are elected to the House. Fairfax, Dem.
is reported to be elected in the Monon
galia District, by about 100 maj. over
Wade, Dem.
Taylor gives Summers 46 maj., and
Burdett 115.
Preston?Johnson is reported to have
received about 200 maj., and Zinn, Whig,
amd Scott, Dem., elected Delegates.
Barbour is reported to have given John -
son 300 maj.
Rigger is said to be elected to the Sen
ate in the Lewis district.
Valedictory.?With this number the
publication of the Fellowsville Democrat
closes for the present. Ii taki ng our ex
it from the editorial fraternity, we have
only to say that we find it neccssary to
give our undivided attention to labor that
is in better demand than Whig Politics.
[Fellowsville Democrat.
Whig politics is at rather low ebb now
days, that is a fact, but we regret that j
it has not sufficient vitality to keep so
sprightly a paper as the Democrat alive.
It has amused us vastly during the past
month.
False Rumor.?A rumor reached Pitts
burg on Tuesday evening, said to have
come by telegraph, that Mr. Clay had
died at Washington during the day ; and
as if to keep the citizens in painful sus
pense, it was ascertained on applying at
the telegraph offices, that both lines had
just got out of order. The rumor, of
course, was untrue.
Congress.?Little has as yet been done
in this body, besides the appointment of
the Standing Committees and the pas
sage of a resolution offering the hospitali
ties of the government and the people to
Kossuth and his companions.
The Elections.
'
The election which has just been held
in this State has probably resulted, so far
as the State ticlcct Is concerned, as favora
bly to the Democratic party, as the most
sanguine could have hoped. Sufficient
returns have been received to warrant us
in saying that Johnson, Leake and Bo
cock, are elected by large majorities;
1 thus proving to the whole country that
the Old Dominion is, to the core, true to
the principles and the party founded by
one of her own distinguished sons.
The Legislature will, in all probability,
be decidedly Democratic in both branches.
Thus far the returns give us for the Sen
ate 24 Democrats and 9 Whigs?House
of Delegates 47 Democrats to 28 Whigs.
The returns frome some of the adjoin
ing counties will be found in another
column. In most of these it will be seen
that the Democratic party has done no
bly. At least as well as we have done in
Harrison, where we elected but one Dem
ocrat to the House of Delegates, while
we have a decided Democratic majority.
The cause of this has been, not that we
had not good men in the field, but for the
want of a proper organization, by which
the whole*strength of the party might be
concentrated upon the candidates. This
is a subject which should enlist the at
tention of the Democratic party. We
have a clear majority of upwards of two
hundred, and some means should be de
vised by which the political principles _ of
that majority should be represented in the
election of the makers and administrators
of our laws. We shall advert to this sub
ject again.
Notices oT Publications.
Tiik Bulletin of the American Art
Union, for November, has been received.
This is a monthly publication by the Ame
rican Art Union, of New York, containing
sixteen or more quarto pages, of three co
lumns each, of interesting matter, on sub
jects relating to Art in this country and
in Europe. The present number contains
| a beautiful etching of a Landscape by Du
I rand, which is to be included in the dis
tributions of the Art Union during the
present month. The American Art Un
ion, is the best Art Union in the country.
Mammoth Pictorial Brother Jona
than.?We have received a copy of this
magnificent Christmas and New Years
sheet of pictures. It is indeed a wonder
of newspaper printing. The Engraving
of the fabled Santa Claus' Journey on a
Christmas Eve, is a spirited original de
sign, making a monster picture which
covers two entire pages of the paper. We
have not room to enumerate the good
things contained in the famous Brother
Jonathan this year?suffice it to say that
it is the best number we recollect to have
jseen of the mammoth pictorial. The
price is 12 cents, or ten for one dollar.
I B. II. Day (successor to Wilson Co.) is
the publisher.
Tiik Herald ok the Union, is the title
of a new paper just started in New York
bj C . Edwards> Lester, and devoted to the
I'll Ion. Mr. Lester enjoys a High reputa
tion as a writer, and the Herald, which is
a large, monthly paper, printed in the
best style of the art, bears the impress of
being conducted with ability. Although
we don't agree with some of the senti
ments expressed, we wish the Herald,
and the cause in which it is engaged, the
most unlimited success.
The Democratic Review for October
and November have been sent us. We
esteem this among the best publications
of the day. Every number is embellish
ed with the likeness of some of our dis
tinguished men. The articles arc of the
highest order, both in general information
and literature. See prospectus in another
column.
The I* lag of Oitr Union is a most ex
cellent literary paper, published in Bos
ton at two dollars a year.
QUITE KICK I
A few days since, one of our country
subscribers came into the office, with the
air of a patron, and asked to see a late
number of the ?? Mirror." It was prompt
ly handed to him, as a matter of course,
when spreading it out, he pointed to some
two or three columns of standing Adver
tisements, and requested, or rather requi
red that they should be taken out, as, in
| his opinion, they had already been pub
lished too long. We explained to him
that they were inserted by contract, at a
certain yearly price, and yielded us some
thing about one hundred dollars per an
num ; and that advertisements of the kind
were absolutely necessary to enable us to
publish a weekly paper at the low price of
81,50 a year. He pondered the matter a
moment, and left, insisting that we had
better take them out, or we might lose
several subscribers. This gentle
man has been receiving our paper regu
larly since we commenced its publication,
that is two years and seventeen weeks and
has yet to pay thc first dime to its support!
We copy the above from the Morgan
town Mirror. It is almost as "rich" as
a case we had once. While publishing a
paper in Pennsylvania, it happened once
that all of our hands were shaking with
the ague, and we were compelled to fore
go the publication of the paper a week.
Two or three days after the usual publi
cation day, a man called on us and '? wan
ted to know what was the reason we
could not have a paper every week."
^ e gave him a statement of the case, and
he replied : ?? We must have a paper eve?
ry week, or we _ can't stand it. I don't
take your paper, but / hmve been in the hab
it of reading it undkrhamdmlt for the last
two years, and can't do without it."
The Treason Trials.?The trial of
Castncr Hanaway, indicted for treason in
participating in the Christiana riot, has
resulted in his acquittal. Judge Grier
charged the jury that the crime of trea
son had not been proved upon the defen
dant, and instructed them to bring in a
verdict of acquittal. After a short con
sultation the jury came in, and through
their foreman returned a verdict of " not
guilty." The four other bills of indict
ment against Hanaway were abandoned
by the government. The Baltimore Sun
says: " A grave error was committed in
the initial transaction on the part of the {
authorities, and one which it will hardly !
be possible to repair. We are, as a peo
pie, so given to excitement, that we suffer'
ourselves to become the victims of it up- j
on every temptation; and under its influ-1
I ence we are induced to strain law, con-1
stitution, and everything else, to serve a
purpose, which, because it is good in
itself, we are apt to suppose can be vastly
improved by our officious zeal.
Newspapib Postage.?It has been de
cided by the Department that subscribers
living in the county where a newspaper is
published are entitled to receive it free of
postage, even though the post office through
which they receive it may bo out of the
county. Subscribers and Postmasters
will please notice.
For-the Register.
Judge of%>urt of Appeal*.
Clarksburg, Dec. 15th, 1851.
Mr. Editor:?As a subscriber to your ve
ry useful paper, I take the liberty to trou
ble you with a short communication, know-'
ing, as I do, that the subject is one in
which the people all feel a deep interest.
You are aware that the Legislature of
our State, (shortly to convene,) will de
termine upon the time to hold our election
for a Judge of the Court of Appeals under
one of the provisions of the Constitution,
and in view of that fact, I take the liber
ty to name Col. Gideon Draper Camden,
of this place, as a gentlemen eminently
qualified in every respect to discharge the
functions of that office.
As an expounder of the law, Col. Cam
i den may have an equal, but certainly no
superior in this region.
He has been a successful member of
the bar for twenty years, and enjoys the
full confidence of the whole community
i not only as a lawyer, but in every pri
I vate relation or association. Add to Col.
! Camden's conceded ability as a lawyer,
I his unequalled personal popularity, and
1 may the people not promise themselves
| every advantage that could be legitimate
ly expected.
Col. Camden is exactly the man that
will suit?his manners are p)ain?his
fashions and habits of life arc plain?and
in short, his decisions from the bench,
whilst they would ever bo characterized
by the true spirit of the law, would be
clothed in such language as all would be
able to fully comprehend. Col. Camden
can be triumphantly elected to this office
?liis unsullied integrity nnd distinguish
attainments as a lawyer, forms the basis
of his claims. Col. C. should at onco <lo
' clare himself a candidate, as there is no
other way by which his friends can learn
his desires on the subject. The office is
icorth y of Col. Camden, and he is fully icor
thr of the office. L.
, The Proiuetheu* Fired into by nu Ehk
lish Brig-of-Wur*
The following important correspondence
addressed by Capt. Churchill to the New
York papers, explains the circumstance of
the British brig-of war Express firing in
to his American steamer.
San Juan, Nov. 11, 1051.
Gentlemen: In order to correct any
misstatements that may be made of the
circumstance of the English brig-of-war
Express firing into the Prometheus, I beg
of you to give the following statement an
insertion in your paper.
At 2, P. M. I went to my ship under
weigh to proceed to sea, having just re
ceived the last of our passengers from the
Pacific steamer, including in all about
500. At this moment the city authorities
of Greytown, constituted, as they state,
by the authority of the Musquiio King,
<!amc on board the ship with a police
force and served a process of attachment
on the ship and myself for the amount of
$123, claimed hy the authorities for pres
ent and arrearage port dues, charged the
ship, which we supposed to be illegally
demanded, and had consequently refused
to pay them, as I did in the present in
stance.
The port dues arc made up from the
night of anchorage in the harbor, by the
captain of the ports, fees and pilotage. |
I hove up my anchor and dropped.
down the harbor with the current, hav
ing alongside one of the river steamers, re
ceiving from her the baggage of the pas-:
sengers. The English orig-of-war, lying1
a short distance from us, immediately got
under wci^li and made sail for us, and <
when within a quarter of a mile of us,
fired a round shot over the forecastle, not!
clearing the wheel house over ten feet?
in a few minutes another shot was fired,
which passed over the stern so near that
the force of the ball was distinctly felt by
several passengers. I sent a boat onboard
the brig to inquire the cause of their firing1
into us. The captain stated it was to pro-'
tect the citizens of Greytown in their de-:
mands, and if we did not immediately'
anchor he would fire a bombshell into as,
and ordered his guns to be loaded with
grape and canister shot; at the same time
our small steamer left us, and I proceed-;
ed, under steam, back to an anchorage I
and anchored. The brig stood up the
harbor, and anchored very near us?sent
a boat on board of us with orders that our
fires should be pui out, and that an offi
cer would be senf on board to see that the
fires were extinguished. The authorities
then came on board, and, under the cir
cumstances of the ease, the amount de
mantled was paid under protest, and we'
were permitted to proceed to sea by the
captain of the brig.
Respectfully, your ob't servant,
HENRY CHURCHILL,
Captain of steamship Prometheus.
Ancient Cloth taken from the Mounds
oT Ohio,
Of the seven papers read on tho open
ing day, the most interesting was that by
Mr. Foster, U. S. Geologist, describing
samples of aneient cloth taken from the
mounds of Ohio. We give an abstract:
"In 1848,' Mr. Foster procured from a
resident of Charleston, Jackson county,
Ohio, several fragments of 0I9U1 taken
'from a mound in that vicinity. They
were found near the bottom enveloping
several copper rings, and greatly decay
ed ; though some were sufficiently pre
served to evidence thoir having been wd1'
ven. Fearing deception or error, Mr.*
Foster refraineaTrom making public at
that time, a fact so novel in itself, and so
repugnant to prevailing ideas as to the
degree of civilisation possessed by the .
mound builders; but having lately recei
ved from Mr. John Woods, of Ohio, a
gentleman high in office, and of unques
tionable veracity, additional samples ac
companied by a desoriptive letter, all
doubt as to the propriety of publishing
the discovery is removed. In nis letter,
Mr. Wood states that the fragments of
charred cloth, together with an arrow,
and a considerable quantity of charcoal
and bones were taken from tho mound on
the wcsUrn bank of the Great Miami Ri
ver, two miles north of MiddleUnVn, But
ler county, Ohio, during some excava
tions rendered necessary in constructing
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Railroad. Tho mound was originally
twenty feet high, and fifty yoars ago was
covered with trees. About ten feet from
its surface, there was a compaot layer of
fiee, red, and apparently burnt clay, abqut
an inch thick; underneath which, near
the middle of the mound was author
! layer of fine, crturn colored clay, differing
from any in the neighborhood. Under ?
this latter, tho charcoal, cloth and bones
were found. The bones were few and
small. Little earth was mixed with tho
coal and cloth, which evidently had re
mained as they had been placed whfcn
burned and coveved up. The charciml
appeared to be on the outside of tho oloth,
which was frcqently in folds of half a
dozen thickness. The layers of burned
and cream colored clay did not occupy
but about five or six feet of tho monnd.?
As to the period when tho charcoal and
cloth were deposited in the mound, tho
only question occurring to Mr. Woods was
whether the inound erected by a former
race may not have been made a burial
place by tho Indians living hero when ?
America was discovered. Thinking of
this question while at the mound, he was
careful to examine the condition of tho
earth around and abovo the relics, and
caino to the conclusion that it could not
have been disturbed after it was placed ini
the mound.
On this question Mr. Foster further re
marks, that there is no evidence that the ?
'North American Indians possessed tho
art of spinning and weaving when first
1 known to the whites ; consequently they
never possessed it; for an art so useful,
when once acquired, would not be lost.?
That the cloth wasobtained from tho Eu
ropeans by the Indians and then placed
in the mound, at a comparatively recent
period, Is improbable for the following
reasons. Tho layers of earth surroun
ding it were undisturbed ; its maturial be
ing less adapted for clothing and more
, costly wool, is not such as a civilized race
would manufacture for a barbarous gnu*.
j Hill! moi>(utv?r lit*
mMr -nrrmc. vt tHo
j samples could not hare been formed in
an ordinary loom, but was undoubtedly
woven by hand. From these faqts Mr.
Foster infers that tho mound Iniilders
who have left memorials of their exis
| toncc from the shores of Lake Superior to
those of the Mexican Gulf, were a labo
rious, intelligent people, far more civilized
and advanced in the arts than tho pre
sent race of Indians with whom they ap
pear to have been in connection. Tho
fabric in these samples of cloth, seems to
be of some material allied to hemp; and
the separation of the fibre from the wood
is as complete as if done by the modern
process of rotting and heckling. The
thread, though coarse, is regularly spun.
The texture of the samples from Jackson
county, is formed by t lie alternate inter
section of the warp and wool; but in oth
ers from Butler county, tho weft is wound
once around the warn?a proccss only to
be accomplished by hand. There is no'
reason to doubt that these woven fabrios
are the work of the mound builders.?
The art of spinning and weaving was
practised by the ancient PtruvltM. At
Fachacamac, thirty or forty miles from
Lima, where stands the temple of tho sun,
there are numerous remains of walls built
of sun-dried bricks, indicating tho site of
a once large and compact town. In the
burial-place here, are numerous mummies
in a sitting posture, wrapped in many
folds of a woven cloth, with an ecterior
covering of coarse matting. Tho fabric
consists of the wool of the Uma or alpaca,
and a cotton which here grows spontane
ously.
Tii* Convention, held atKomney, Va.,
on the 25th ult., to adopt measures to con
nect the Manassa's Oap Road with the
Baltimore and Ohio, near l'addytown,
was attended not only by delegates from
Hampshire, Hardy and F rcdcricK counties,
Va., but also by three from Washington
city and one from Alexandria. Messrs..
J. R. Tucker and J. Carr Baker addressed;
the Convention, and resolutions were
adopted, and committees appointed to ar
range the preliminaries for carrying out
the contemplated project.
t&T" I hope to see the day," said
Lord Brougham, " when every peasant in
England can understand Bacon." "His.
lordship," replied Cobbett, " had much
better hoped to. see the day when every
peasant would be able to cat bacon."
Out of all tho subscribers of the
Times last year, only seven had to be
dunned; five of whom were dead, the
money of the other two had been stolen
from the Post-office.
JtW A land of liberty is a land of news
papers. 1 had rather havo ?' nowspajtora
without h government," said Jcflerson,
" tbaa a. government without powspapers.*'