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1 - . 1 • M^.-wll-A^X.-- - --- - . :v » 4,u - ^ . ',■. '4;^. . *. J . - Fit# 'Fiwi.n- *w; .. jX*- 1 j - s m - -1 * IX » •vr> '# *.< v- m .1 ' ; . • • . . * .•- - • *vj . ,» •irw^y - ( r**!**” r .1 Stneua Courier. Wednesday, June 16,1852. CAMPAIGN PAPER.! For the ensuing-six months, we will furnieh the'Courier to single subscribers F o r 37 1-8 C E N T S ! 3 copies {for one dollar , 7 copies for two dollars, Lpl copies for 3 dollars, and 20 copies for 5 dollars. We^look with confidence to our f? tends in the Surrounding towns, to extend very largely our circulation during the canvass now opening. Our offer brings the pa- papo< cheep-to the last degree ; and we shall spare no effort of our own, and shall enlist no little aid from others to make it a correct and-interesting politi cal sheet. Our friends will please send us the names of all whom they enlist as Club Subscribers. Subscriptions will be received at S tago ’ s News Office, and at O rton ' s , The Homestead Bill, The Whig National Convention assembles to day, at Baltimore. Its do ings are awaited with the greatest anx. iely in all quarters of the country. We venture no predictions, and offer but lit tle speculation with respect to its delib erations, as the Telegraph will soon be* gin to set conjecture at vest. The ap parent chances of Mr. Webster’s nomi nation have very much increased within a few days. Sinco the nomination of Mr. Fillmore has been regarded as en- lirely improbable, it has been given out 4*hat his strength will be carried over to Mr. Webster, which, if done, will ren der the latter a formidable competitor for the nomination. Still we regard the nomination of General S cott , as the most probable event. That his nomina tion would be the strongest that could be made, is evident from the hostility it 'meets from every enemy of the Whig cause. Delegates at Large. The Delegates from this Stale to the Whig National Convention met at the Astor House, in New York, on Friday last, for the purpose of settling contested seats, and appointing two Delegates at Jaige. W e find in the last number of the Ontario Repository , an article, deciying, as palpably unjust and impolitic, the Homestead Bill, which lately passed the House of Representatives, and is now before the Senate. W e will examine some of its objections, and first the fol- e low ing : “ There would be some degree of plausi bility in the scheme if it restricted its bounty to those who are not only landless but poor ; but no amount of personal property is a dis qualification for this sort of public charity It gives as well to those who are not, as to those who are dependent and needy.” It is a gross misapprehension of the principle on which the Freedom of the Public Lands is demanded, to deem it a “c h a r i t y or essentially as a gift from the Government. The Land Reformers, who first commenced the agitation for Free Homes, on the Public Domain, as sume that land in a state of nature, be fore it has received any value from culti vation, is justly the property of no man, and no more a purchasable commodity than air, water or sunshine, and that it should belong to those who are other wise destitute of land, in such quantities as they need, and no more. If their position is true, it can ho no charity to grant the provisions r f the Homestead i Bill. Besides those who may already possess a large amount of personal pro- pet ty, are not likely to court the hard ships of a primitive settlement, for the sake of 160 acres of uncultivated land. So* that objection is more fanciful than real, since none but actual settlers will be entitled to this (so called) bounty. But hear the Repository : “ Again, it is a gratuity to a particul&rclass or calling. Mechanics and Olliers not bred to agricultural employment, and incapable of earning a livelihood by it, are practically ex cluded from any participation in the benefit of this provision.’’ This is a most narrow and illiberal view of the subject. You cannot really benefit one class of citizens without be- couragement of speculation and mono poly. For a proper refutation of several other bugbears started by the Repository, and a complete statement of the whole subject of Land Reform, we refer it to the able article on the outside of this sheet, taken from the American W h ig Review , which is conservative, if not competent authority. SPECIAL NOTICES. It is reported by some of the Lo- cofoco papers, that F ranklin P i who has lately become known to the world by the accident of his nomination for President, the chief instrument in removing, from the Constitution of New Hampshire, an odious religious test, whereby Catholics Tire prevented from holding office. On the contrary, although Franklin Pierce has for many years had a controlling influence in the legislation of that State, the Ami-Democratic Test remains. And to show the contracted and illiberal character of New H am p shire Locofocoism, we subjoin the fol lowing vote on an amendment of the Constitution, abolishing the %% Catholic Testy ’’which was given on the 31st of March, 1852. We copy from the Na- . tional Intelligencer : For the Test, in the Whig Towns, Loco. 44 << u 574. 3,180. Total, 3,760 Against the Test, in the WhigTowns, 2,512, u << u u Loco. “ Total, 300. nefiting the whole. The settler under the Free Home system, instead of being compelled to pay out all the proceeds of to gain his labor for the first few y * a title for his land, can build a comfort- Five of the Disliicts were con- .,,i . . , ! able residence, and purchase additional tested, and committees were appointed _ to investigate the rights of the respective claimants; but the Fillmore contestants refuse.! their claims to a meeting of the State Delegates, and declared their in tention to carry their cases directly to comforts for his family, by which em- • _ ployment will be given to Mechanics and Manufacture!s. Every enlightened Mechanic may well rejoice in the pas sage of the Homestead Bill. a - d .. ,ri ^ , The next objection urged by the lle- lhe Baltimore Convention. 1 he Com- J . ” f r . , nository sounds so Anti-Republican, and •mitteos therefore reported unanimously : J . _ 1 _ . r r . 0 , . zk - i 1 is so complete a case of pettifogging: for .in favor-of the S cott delegates. On bal- , * . .. _ l. r n , , . , tx , T ~ wealth and pnviledge against the labor- iluttng For Delegates at Large, biM eon . 1 , ° ° tx r XT v , i T i t mg interest, that we copy it entire, not D raper , of New Y o ik, and John L. b . , . ni c n cc i , ^ so much to refute it as to preserve so J alcott , of Buffalo, received 28 votes . _ . 1 . _ , 4. * r T, _ curious a specimen ' or antiquated fedur- tO 3 for F lUNCis GtLXKamt and D jlkiql - . U l l m a n . The Delegation from this ° ,Sm 2,872. New Hampshire is the strongest Lo- cofoco State noith of Mason and Dixon’s line, and the above vote is an exhibition of its quality of Democracy. When John P, Hale revolted from the bondage of his , party, on the question of Texan Annexation, he was mercilessly perse cuted by this Franklin Pierce, whom the Barnburner prints attempt to suppoit for the Presidency. When John A t wood, who was fairly nominated by the party for Governor, expressed his hosti lity to the Fugitive Slave Law, Franklin Pierce took the lead in repudiating the nomination, and thrusting the nominee from the party ranks, and yet Presses that ardently supported the Buffalo P lat form, affect consistency in the support of Pierce and the Baltimote Platform of 1852. Patent Cylinder Stove. » Anew patent for a stove with this title was secured last fall, by Mr. C. A. B ogert » of West Dresden, and is now owned by him in connection with Mr. W m . G. A ckley , of this village. The peculiarity of this stove* consists in an open cylinder, extending thro1 i: from underneath to the upper surface; by Character of Anti-Slavery Men, by an Enemy. The Savannah Georgian , in an article on the Fugitive Slave Bill, makes the following remarks on the character of the Anti-Slavery people of the North. We commend them to the attention of the well-meaning men among us who have hitherto swallowed without thought Later from California. N ew Y ork , June 12. The steamship Illinois arrived at 7 o’clock this morning, with dates from San Francisco to May 18th, twelve days .ater. She made the run from Aspinwail in seven days and five hours—the shortest passage on record. 'fftThe Illinois brings the mails, 500 passen gers* and nearly $ 2 , 000,000 in gold, on freight and in the hands of passengers. The Sierra Nevada sailed from Aspinwail __ o,l f - - NT ____ V —I. * which not only is a greater heated surface or examination the abuse which the set- June 3d, for New York. exposed to the air, and more radiation of heat vjl? anLd Pr?fli8at® presses of our large ” \ indued than by any ordinary stove, but a J f e s have been foryears heaping upon „ . ^ those who— are striving to check and ex- cuvrentfrom the floor to the upper part of the ........ ...... striving .... — -------- it. - . . terminate the great evil and opprobrium c room ,s established whereby the room is rap- ofthe Republ> Tho character which The Panama Railroad was being extend* ed daily. The hews from the mines is of the most idly heated and equality of temperature se cured. this pro-slavery Southern journal re- A parlor stove, on this plan, was luctantly gives of the Northern oppo- gercius. Gov. Bigler, at the last accounts was suf fering from a severe attack of bilous fever, though his situation was not considered dan- tested on Saturday last, at the house of J no . nents of Slavery is the character which] The Chinamen seem to be getting in bad D elafield , Esq., of Seneca co., late PresL they bear in enlightened foreign coun- °dor thoroughout the mines geneially, and dent of the State Agricultural Society.! Profs, tries, and which they will undoubtedly fiPeediJy drawn out unless govern- ° J I . . . 1 v l . n A n t «/-» f W A H A i . l th A i i . maintain through all our future history : B ryan and L ee , of the Geneva Medical Col lege, together with Judge F older , and A. A. “ Were the votaries of abolition (we mean not the politicians who trade in fanaticism,) base and unprincipled, low and degraded, we H olly of this place, were present and all ex- r pressed the highest satisfaction with the, . t11 , . . .............. , «... should have little to fear from their hostiility. operation of the stove; and gave in writing Puhlic opinion) or at worst civil their testimonj of its merits. The Patent Right for the Counties of Ontario, Wayne, and Yales has been sold to Mr. G erard D ey , of this village. X D o llars and Cents. An attractive title to a still more attractive book, written very much in the same vein as the “ Wide Wide World,1’ which has been so universally admired. Few books are so at tractive as Dollars and Cents. 0 ton. Sold by State now stands, with the Oswego and “ Its operation must be sensibly prejudicial to the interests of the older States, by draw- Madison District unrepresented, 29 for I ing off a considerable portion of their popula- i / J . . « i < • , t A . i • e S cott , 4 for Webster. Fillmore, and one for The Webster man, Moses H. Grinnell, of New York, goes for Scott as his second choice. . A dinner was given by the Proprietors of the Astor House, to the S cott and tion, and depriving them of the services of laborers necessary for the cultivation of the soil. The difficulty of obtaining hired labor of a desirable description, has of late years been a subject of general complaint with ag riculturists in -this section. The inviting prospects in the new Slates are tempting most of our hardy, enterprising young farm- . ers westward, and as soon as they can com- W k b s t e r Delegates, after the convention | mand means to purchase 80 or 160 acres of land they are off to Wisconsin or Iowa. They need no stronger inducement than the prospect of bettering their condition, and be- Messrs. R aymond and G reeley . Moses! coming independent land holders.” adjourned, at which speeches were made by several of the Delegates, and also by H. Grinnell and J . Watson Webb, of the The time is not beyond the recollec- Courier and Enquirer stated their pre- j tion of some men, when it was urged by ference for Mr. Webster, All the others | gome politicians that a high rate of wages enthusiastic for 1^* The Geneva Post Master is at tempting to drive H orace G reeley out of tho Whig party! The effort looks about as sensible and reasonable as would c be the endeavor of a very small whiffet dog to bark the elephant out of the ani mal kingdom ! Mr. Greeley protests against the attempt to thrust earnest Anti- Slavery men out of lhe party. The Post M aster suys they musx go\ out, and that they deserve no better fate. Query ? Whether a man who has bolted the Whig ticket for a year or two, has any just claim to adjudge the rights of mem- ship in the party r It is not a query whether the Post Master was an earnest Anti-Slavery man when he used to preach Free Soil. That he was neither earnest nor honest is a very clear case. The Lantern. This humuvous luminary, still continues to light with laughter, the countenances of its numerous readers. The last number con tains a graphic illustration of the great po litical prize fight at Baltimore, with portraits of the principal sufferers. \Puncli has had many imitators, but none so nearly outshine him as the Lantern. Sold by Orton. G-leason’s Pictorial. One of the finest periodicals of the day: % embelished with pictorial illustrations fully equal to those of the famous London News. Sold for ten cents at Orton’s. Large Fish. S tump and S mith served up, the other day, to their friends of the Press, an enormous While Fish, richly prepared, and accompanied with suitable fixings. The saidB fish was caught in the Seneca Lake, and weighed 9£ might crush them. But this is not the lact. The strongholds of abolition are not the cities, with the vice which generally charac terise cities, they are the rural districts, with their sober, serious, moral, and religious population. It is among this class that anti slavery fanaticism is running wild and ram pant. And sad to say, the little “ conserva tism ” which remains in the North is found in her commercial ma ts, and is kept alive by the profits of Southern trade. Northern anti-abolition mobs, when they do occur, are usually composed of the rabble of the towns and cities. On the other hand, find a < community in the free States remarkable for quiet, decorum, industrious habits and relig ious devotion, and the probability is, that there will be found, not prehaps anti-slavery clamor, but anti-slavery feelings in its worst and deepest intensity. These are the men who hate slavery, becausa they believe it sinful. And they are men whose opinions, denunciation will not change,and whose pre judice penal laws will -hot eradicate.— Thoroughly opposed to the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, every example of its forcible execution only intensifies their hate towards the law, and the institutions which it was designed to protect. “ What then is to prevent the recurrence among such people, of exactly such outrages, as those which have lately been committed ? Nothing. The only hone of enforcing this law, without an expense of time, money From (lie fiosion Commonwealth. GOLD. We publish below a portion of an Austra lian letter to England, that will be read with interest. The addition of gold to the stock in the world has increased so rapidly of late, that it is attracting the attention of business men as well as theorists and philanthropists. The total stock of gold and silver in the year 1600, is estimated at £40,000,000, of which the amount of goid was £12,000,000. The discovery of America added greatly to this amount, so that in 1848, it had increased to £ 1 , 726 , 000 , 000 , of which one-lhird was gold. The estimated annual supply in 1800, was £7,840,000 silver, and £3,258,000 gold, or a total of £11,098,000. The estimated annual increase in 1848 was, silver £8.630,* 000, and gold £9,9)0;000, a total of £18,- 540,000. \ The middle of the present century is a hew era in regard to the supplyof gold. Its discovery in California, aiid soon after ih Australia, forms a more striking period in its history, than the discovery of America three and a half centuries before. The produce of California up to the end of 1851, is £30,000,; 000, of which £14,000,000 was obtained itf 1851. Australia yielded during six months, to the end of 1851, perhaps £1,000,000.—* The increase on the stock of gold in the world in 1S50 and 1851 was at the rate of from 2 to 2 1 -2 per cent. But it is calculated that the supply from California and Austra lia will amount annually to £20,000,000, and whic lbs. S tump & S mith are Empire a highly popular resort. making the Saydam ’s Bakery. With most astonishing energy, Mr. S uy - dam has rebuilt almost entirely the whole of his Bakery, and in better style than before its destruction by the late fire. He is now ready to ent r upon his business on quite as magnificent a scale as ever, and supply all his customers at home and abroad, with the products of his establishment. We regret to learn that his loss is likly to prove very heavy. were unanimous S c o t t . and The Medical College. for the laborer was incompatible with the prosperity of the country. That sort of old Fogyism has been long ex ploded, but the same spirit is yet in ex- We call attention to the notice i*1 istence, and speaks out in the above para- -another column, of the annual graph. Few men of any breadth of mencement of the Medical College, on Tuesday next. Tho Medical College is an excellent institution in itself, and one of great value to Geneva, We trust the exercises of commencement will be largely attended by the public. The name of Prof. L ee is a guarantee of the e excellence of the entertainment on his part. On a previous occasion we suggested •the project of attaching a Hospital to the ^College. The superior importance of such an acquisition to the College as well as the village, must be readily con ceded. It would add much to the value of the College to any medical class, and draw larger numbers to attend the lec* e _ __ lures. And that a Hospital could be well filled and sustained is proved by the very large amount of clinical service which the Professors are caVed upon to perform. A little effort on the part of our citizens, would no doubt be seconded by an appropriation from the State, i whereby we might make this very de sirable addition to the public institutions of Geneva. The effort would beyond all doubt be successful, and richly repaid. Wo shall be happy to give place in our columns to the views of such as are better informed on this topic than we are. Qi^»At a special election, in the 4lh Congressional District of Maine, held on the 7th, to fill a vacancy, Isaac N. Reed, the Whig candidate, was elected by over 600 majority. The District was specially gerrymandered for Locofoco purposes, and had previously elected a Locofoco to office. The Whig victory was achieved under the irffluence of Gen. S cott ’ s name as a candidate for the Presidancy. Locofoco Unity. « Unceasing efforts are made by the Locofoco Press to convince the public that their party is perfectly united, not only on the nomination made at Balti more, but on the Platform there laid- down, or in spite of it. Now it is true that many of the former adherents of the Buffalo Platform, are bent on sticking to the party, right or wrong, for the sake of victory and the spoils. Such men as John Van Buren, Henry B. Stanton, and other Free Soil demagogues, swallow (7 O ' the Baltimore endorsement of the Fusi* o live Slave Law, wrthout a contortion. But these men and the Press with which they have acted, have been diffusing a- mong their followers a better sort of principles. They have educated a good many people beyond the grovelling land marks of Huukerism. Though the lead ers can swallow their former professions and submit meekly to Hunker control, not a few of the men of rank and file are prepared to revolt. They see no con- judgment would discover any cause of alarm in the increase of the number of “ independent land holders.’’ Any ra tional and fair system, by which hire lings m-ght be changed into stable and n o o productive land holders, must certainly be far from detrimental to the moral, social and pecuniary prosperity of the country, whatever its effect might be upon tho price of labor. We will make otie more quotation : t; But we have another and insuperable objection to this project,—it insults the man ly, independent spirit of American freemen, and treats them as paupers. It is an im peachment of their enterprise, an offensive appeal to their cupidity.’1 If this objection were worth anything, the higher the price asked for llie gov ernment land, the less would be the in sult offered to tho buyer. But this is really the same superficial misapprehen sion on which the whole article is based. Tlrere is actually no inherent right by which to claim a price fur the unculti vated, unappropriated public laud. The whole country is made richer by every settler who brings under culture a portion of tho native wilderness, and it is be lieved by those who have bestowed the most attention to the subject, that the aa cheerfully in the defeat of Pierce in free disposal of the lands will in the end 11352, sistency in the support of the Baltimore Platform of 1848 arid a directly opposite set of principles in 1852. They find in Franklin Pierce, an old enemy of the sacred right of petition, a vindictive op ponent of Free Soil men and measures, and always a willing trickier to the arro gant dictation of the Slave holder. Con scientious, earnest men, who have oppos ed Hunkevism, will continue to oppose it; let their leaders be ever so recreant. And the number of such men is not small. The harmony of the Locofoco party, is only appearent and artificial. Tho quiet sober and reflecting men, who aided in the defeat of Cass, in 1848, will aid quite Life of Fierce. H oward S tagg : has laid on our table, a hasty edition of the life of F ranklin P ierce . . • To those who may happen to have a decided relish for essential Cross, it is one of the best things lately published. It is simply a great expenditure of swollen rhetoric and highfalutin to make a great man out of a very small one. Mr. Pierce it says, 11 lives in a small white house, in the city of Concord.” “ In front of it is a yard of heautiftd green trees and little flower beds , purifying and re freshing the air} and loading it with f r a g r a n c e The history of his dogs and kit tens will probably be in the next edition. jeace more valuable than the slaves h will be captured, is to he found in a change, thorough and radical, of the princi ples and convictions of the Northern people in relation to slavery. Is there any pvoba* bilily of such change? None whatever.— For the very conservatives of the North are by their teachings and preachings, strength ening the feeling from which hostility to the Fugitive Bill springs. These men admit and proclaim the evils and sinfulness of slavery, but say that while the law-exists it must be enforced. Their hearers differ from £hem as to their conclusion, believing that if an institution he sinful, in maintaining it (in any wise) they make themselves sinners.— If, on the contrary, these pretended conserva tives would content themselves with so low a code of morals as the Bible, and taking that as authority, assert that slavery is sanc tioned by God himself—then we might ex pect such a change in Northern feeling as would prompt the enforcement of Southern rights. Without this change, of which there is no more, probability than of the change of the Ethiopian’s skin or of the leopard’s spots, the Fugitive Slave Law must remain, as it is, a dead law. And such it will remain—utterly xvorthless-to the South.11 ment takes some action to prevent their swarming over in cuch hordes. An affair of honor occurred at Washing ton, opposite Sacramento, between H. De Courcey, editor of the Calaveras Chronicle, W. H. Carter, Esq., in which the former was shot through the body. The Legislature have passed hills for the providing of $600,000 of the State Civil Fund also the War Fund, the floating-debt of the country, and authorising the receiving of the unfunded State Warrants, for the payment of the School Fund. j which is an annual increase on the stock ex- No provision has be n made for the inter- isting in 1848, of 8 2-3 per cent, est on war bonds, which will cause them to j That an addition of $100,000,000 to the he unsaleable till the United States provides gold of the world will make a great change for their liquidation. f in the world’s condition, is a safe prediction. The diggings on Moccasin creek, hereto- But what that change will be is a question fore considered unprofitable, are being thick* j on which we find little agreement or clear* ly settled. A difficulty had occurred at Atchison bar, between a party of thirty Americans and Eu ropeans and 150 Chinamen, in which the for mer were successful in driving the Chinese away. The anniversary of the battle of San Jacin to was celebrated at San Diego. Cattle were selling at the Ranchos for $16 to 20. A sturgeon was caught in the Sacramento weighing 130 pounds. New discoveries have been made on the Missouri bar, which have created consider able excitement. From ail parts of the country the accounts arc favorable. A large yield is anticipated for the coming year. Provisions at the mines are abundant and cheap. The Oregon from San Francisco biought down $1,600,000 on freight. Nine persons made their escape from the county jail on the 15th. Twelve others were unsuccessful one of them being killed. Further Indian difficulties have occurred in the Northern part of the State. The absence 0 / auy more large conflagra tions lias had a tendency to re tore confi dence in investments of capital, and given an impetus to improvements :md monetary trans actions generally. The Common Counci' are taking measures the development and recognition of light the city with gas. . I principles. The world must be rich Pictorial Brother Jonathan. Orton has a supply of these ever popular Pictorials for the approaching 4th 0 f July It is filled with comical, historical, and imag inative pictures of every variety, and offers a pleasant entertainment for all juveniles of whatever age. Night-Music. Inscribed to Messrs. Payne, Bronsc n, Cook) and Barber, of Geneva, who kindly serenaded the citizens of Ovid, on the morning of June lOlh, 1852. Soft sweet music disturbs mv slumbers, ■ » As half unconsciously I lay, Regardless of active life, that numbers Racking cares with its wakeful-day ; . Spirits of song came gently stealing, Like electric thoughts , o’er my brain, Calling up a pure depth of feeling, \ Upon each harmonious strain. If trouble and pain our joys pursue, While subject to the reign of light, How quickly will sleep every care subdue. During the calm, still hours of night j Add with this, unexpected pleasure That awakes the slumbering soul, And we have found the richest treasure That precedes the Immortal Goal. Ovid, 6 Mo.y 1852. W e cheerfully acknowledge a capital Serenade by the above Troupe, yester day morning. Their music is of the finest order, and furnishes a most de lightful embellishment to the slumbers of o At the annual meeting of the Fire Depart ment of the village of Ge: eva, held at the Victor No. 2, and Rescu ■ No. 3, on the even ing of June 7lh, 1852, S. N. ANTHONY, 1st Ass’t Engineer, (in the absence from town of W m . H. S mith , Chief Engineer,) took the Chair and called to order. Whereupon (J no . N, W hiting , Dep't Sec’y being absent) T heo dore A, B ulkley , of Franklin No. 4, was appointed Sec'y pro tern. The polls were then opened, and kept open till 8 P. M., [and on counting the votes, the following result was declared : Whole number of votes, 142. For Chief Engineer, G C. Seelye had 84 Hiram L. Suydam 56 Moses C. Wright 2 Jesse Savage had 138 Moses C. Wright 3 Wm. P. Hayward 1 C. E. Silsbe had 139 . Moses C. VVlight 1 M. S. Cleveland 124 Moses C. Wright 15 Jno. H. Williams 85 H. G, Fleming 54 Charles J. Folger 139 S. H. Hudson 3 For 1st Assistant) For 2d Assistant, For 3 d Assistant , For Secretary , For Treasurer, And Geo. C. Seelye, Jesse Savage, Charles E. Silsbe, Marcus S. Cleveland, John H. Williams, and Chas. J. Folger were elected. The Treasurer’s Report was then read and accepted, showing a balance in his Rands of cash $71.90; due-bill of former Trcas’r, $4. 38—$76 28. On motion, it was ordered that the Treas’r pay to each company the sum of fourteen dollars, and retain the balance to meet the incidental expenses of the D parlment. On motion, the meeting adjourned without day. S. N. ANTHONY, Ch'n. T. A. B uckley , Sec'y pro tem . to Alex. Wells has taken his seat on the Su preme Court bench. The Vigilance Commilte have deemed it proper, owing to recent developments, to hold meetings again, but as yet no occasion for their interference has offered. Sacramento was lapidly improving and business was very brisk. Many substantial brick stores have recently been completed. The Slate archives will, it is thought, soon be removed to Vallejo. Accounts from the Sandwich Islan s are to April 24th. Parliam e n t nccambtod on th e 13th. The King in his speech said, my relations with all foreign nations, excepting only France, continue to be of the most friendly character, lie expressed himself very liber ally towards his subjects, and says if they are not satilied with the constitution granted them in 18 40, he is ready to form another. Tho House of Representaliues have voted a suitable Address in reply to the Speech. Both Houses, at the last account , were engaged disscussiitg the new Constitution. Another severe earthquake occurred at Hawaii on the 4th. Several tons of Copper were being offered for sale at Honolulu. A gale of 36 hours duration had occurred, but no serious damage was done. It is slated that another Indian expedition is being got up on the plan of the former en terprise, in Ei Dorado county. The construction of telegraph lines were about being commenced. The small pox was raging at Sockton. From the Isthmus and South America there is nothing of importance. Alex. Bell, of N. J., has been robbed at Panama of $3)000. ness among those who make it a subject of speculation. Some view it with fear, anil others with hope. Some think that it will injure business, and others that it will im prove it. But such is the tendency of the world to recognize its own doings and adapt itself to its own changes, that unless disturb ing legail enactments or political combina*- lions interfere, the absorption of the new supplies, and their effects on business, will scarcely be preceptible, except to those who make trade and finances a study on a com prehensive scale. Its general result we have no doubt will be good. Nothing is procured without cost, without an equivalent paid in s^me form — And for our gold we must pay a high price. If one could introduce into the world at once all the gold that California and Australia will yield in a century, but not without the abstraction of Flrength and labor from other countries, the bitter eeperations of families,- the anxiety, tears, and regrets, the fatigue,, sufferings, deaths, vice, and crime which have been and will be the result of its pur suit, he would probably prefer to annihilate it. But over these atte :dants no one man has much control. They will exist and the gold will be hunted and sent to market.— There it forms one of the many elements which are silently \but on a mighty scale elaborating democracy. It joins the discov eries in science and improvement in arts, and moral principles, m e wonu inusi ne nen before it-can be happy, and it is growing rich with speed that is little appreciated. On the one hand agriculture, chemistry, mechanics, anti unnamaMe other departments, are making daily improvements in the productiveness of nature and labor, and on the other education and moral considerations arc introducing e- conomies by \showing us how to reach a given end with the least waste of means, and how many ends are not worth reaching, as they add nothing to 'our true happiness.— How gigantic are the economies involved in the abolition of war, of slavery, of intemper* ance, of superstition, of order of nobility, and wc might add, though the audition may be premature and requires qualification, of disease and feebleness. No one can give these considerations, amlt many others that might be added by ordinary intelligence, their due weight,without seeing that the world is indeed growing rich, tliati its .riches are becoming too abundant fbr monopoly, that they are fast enabling the bodies of the poorest fed and hardest workvlf 1o get a sound and strong development.— From healthful development of body vigor of mind is a necessary consequence. And what monarchs, what nobility, what learned order will he able to cramp, oppress, and enslave nations that have vigorous bodies, a perception of order and justice, and food and capital at their command ? We have no fear of gold mines or gold mountains. Let them surpass in richness all the pictures that have ever been drawn by. Indian or Arabian imaginations. The gold will be a blessing to the world, and a curse only to those individuals who expose themselves to imprudent adventures in its pursuit, or exercise base passions in its po ssession or use. The Foreign News, by the Baltic, is of in terest. Louis Napoleon puts his trust where the veteran commander told his troops to put theirs ----- in the bayonet: but the bayonet will prove a bellen substitute for powder and hall than for popular respect and sympathy. He spares no efforts to make the army his firmest adherents. In the meantime, twenty- two of the representatives in the General have resigned their seats, rather Some of the locofocos are wise enough to disclaim any military renown for their candidate. The Albany Atlas, however,relies upon the Army Register to prove that Mr. Pierce was pretty near the scene of several battles In regard to what he did it is silent. History Council have resigned their seats, rather I Pr»ves lh,at G=n; Scott’s name was not than swear allegiance to him. onv on official list, but that he was. JMoniteur contradicts the reported a* Chippewa, Lundy’s Lane • Other and nobler purposes are be the most fruitful of resources to the moro worthy of political consideration, government. 1 he, immense donations of tfcan the eternal persecution of Slavery. the land, in the shape of military land i — ----- - m* > ____ warrants, by which speculators are to ’ New Hampshird is a first rate place to go be chiefly benefited, has destroyed all prospect of a revenue from that source, for several years. Hence, if we seek the moat profitable mode of parting with the public domain, we shall find it in the encouragement of rapid sttlement, by from. Daniel Webster, Frank. Pierce, D. S. Dickinson, Stephen A. Douglas, Lewis Cass, and J. P. Hale, were every one born in New Hampshire, and have all either been or now are candidates for the Presidency. ■ The expense of receiving and entertaining Kossuth, in Albany, will be about $1,000. these warm evenings. E d . Coun. C anandaigua &N iagara F alls R ailroad . —Judging from the vigor with which this work has been prosecuted since its com mencement, it would seem to be the purpose of the company to bring it to completion with as little delay as possible. A great portion of the road between this place and the Gene see River is already graded, and numerous gangs of hands are employed at various points on the route as far as Batavia. We intend ed to have given our readers some interesting statistics connected with this enterprise,in this week’s paper, but are compelled to omit them. We understand it to be the determination of the directors to complete the road to Bata* via by the first of January next.— Canan daigua Repository. those who design to retain their right in 1 Tthe ^ eW York,Times estimates the amount * mi i. material aid he received in this country at line soil, and by the greatest possible d i s .\ about $150,000. Peter Tracy, Esq., of Havana, was recent ly elected President of the Chemung Canal Bank, in place of Hon. Charles Cook. S lavery in M assachusetts .—It is related by Mrs. Mary Dean, market woman of Boston, who recently died at the age 99 years, that she clearly recollected, that at periods previous to the Revolution, she saw loads of negro children carted about for sale ; when shejspoke of this circumstance, she generally added, that the first wheeled car riage she ever saw was loaded with such slave children ; that according to her under standing on this subject, when a cargo ct slaves arrived in Boston, there were some times a number of children ameng them, from five to twelve years of age, and as such children were not so much wanted in Boston as at best terms the venders could make. The combination between Russia and Austria to prevent assumption of hereditary power by Napoleon. As it is the Government organ, its contradiction is worth about as much as other emanations from Government sources, viz:—it is what the Government wished to have believed. Whether it is true yr not, is another question. The details of the capture of Rangoon have been received. English power goes on steadily in the East. The indications of popular discontent and threatening are increasing everywhere in Southern Europe. Vera Cruz, and in all the hard fought battles from that place to the city of Mexico. Thomas Francis Meagher declines the public reception tendered him by the Common Council of New York, and probably will adopt the same course in reference to other cities. Thousands will regret that an opportunity to testify adequately their sympathy, respect and welcome to the distinguished advocato of Irish Liberty is not afforded them. Powers has sent word for his statue of the Greek Slave to be sent to Europe, as it has been sold. The Syracuse and Rochester Railroad di- . . . • , i i j - i ,, rect is progressing finely. It is nearly all adults, the werei carriedl out and disposedI of graf!ei], and lhe ^ ils xvii| soon be laid. The Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, at the iron horse wj„ tilen bathe ; Mr. Nelson Perry, a farmer, in the town of Sangerfield, N. Y., was killed by lightning on Wednesday morning last. He was in a field plowing hops, and seeing the storm coming, loosed his horse and started for the house, but was struck on the way. His wife witnessed the occurrence, and instantly ran to him, and threw water upon him, but to no effect. There were no marks of lightn ing upon him or his clothes. AT T h e ir O ld T rick s . —The Locofocos filled their torches for their ratification meet ing in\New York from the oil belonging to the corporation. A delegate, who is well posted, says he has no doubt the Baltimore Convention cost Douglass $20,000; The famous Capt. Ryn- ders was a Cass man when be left N. York to represent the Empire Club at Baltimore but became a D'ouglass man when he reach ed the'eity. in the morning in the ocean’s flood, and slake his thirst at eventide in the foaming cataract at Niagara. —Lyons Whb A G reen O ld A ge . —The Auburn Advertiser chronicles the marriage of Aseph Morse, of Moravia, in Caynga county, a revolutionary soldier, aged 92, to Cynthia Whittaker, of Locke, in the same county, aged 82, a relict of tho same glorious period. May their honey moon be productive of something besides green cheese.” S A large, (white headed,) male eagle which, with its mate, had inhabited ‘Dole’s woods’ at Strudwater, and rear ed young, year after year, for forty or fifty years past at least, was shot a few days ago by a person named, Irving, in the vicinity. It had lat terly got to * be very ferocious, and had carried off two lambs—and turkies, geese and chickens without stint;—and fearing that some child might be attacked and carried off by it,one of the two own ers of the woods reluctantly consented to have it shot. On Sunday last, the fe male, after being absent for a while, came back with two others—determined appar ently to keep posession of the old domain. Portland Advertiser , T he R escuers of J erry .— The Syr acuse Journal learns that Judge Nelson has signified that he will not be able to attend the next term of the United States Court, to be held at Canandaigua on the 22d inst.’ and consequently the trial of the rescuers of the black man Jer;y at Syracuse^, will not take place at that lime. • ¥ The Wyoming Mirror proposes a Con vention of editors and publishers in Wes tern New York, to be held in this city, or Canandaigua. Such a gathering of the profession might be the means of es sential good. We should gladly extend the rights of hospitality and the frater nal hand to our brethern of the press and the quill.— Rochester.Democrcd* senaoned, anR of die best quality* Apply at Mill*. _________ _______ R, H. MOREL*1- irn iv o t CAi.nAva Jtr KtiTAPt. As this is the general\l)epot of ^ s luonJcj,ea,e, Vr^ee,Stone for this and the surrounding places, the Trade are. informed that tha proprietor keeps con- siantly on hand G enio C. S cott ’ s far-famed n _ _ i _ w h irh t hpV should s r i r \ •’■j&Srdv'sjsf Congress Water, - w v n r M * e r » v p i w p b p - o ^ — t ELEBRATED ami highly approved Catho. j _ lico/i, for the relief and cure of suffering Females, for sale at the City Drug Store, by GEO. P. MOXVRY. N. TV—Ciill nnd \'Z3E2t B maiCOPHEROUS — BarryV-*l*o Phalous t Invigorstor, two very popular articles for I rkfnmnt-incr tViAorrowth and luxuriance of tho Hair, l, I- .Tao 1 1850. Yankee Soap* S UPERIOR for shaving purposes. 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