-‘”i-‘crritoty South ofthat line may come in
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In the Seiialc onillonrlag/, Mr,..R-obert W.
13.1 rnwall, of S. C. successor to late Mr.
lfzllinore, appeared and took his"i's"eat. :The
Omnibus bill was talrerr. up, rind-llt’Ii"'*.:' Doug-
l:is gave notice of an arrienilri1e,nt.§;p'rOpDsirig
uicut California in twain. Mr. Soulé offered
ti.i.s_: _tt.rii..e_ti.c.t.rtt.e.tt.t..u.n cl... .d..c.. .a,. ...spee_cI.t. 0.n-t—b.e.,
stiliject. Mr. S. proposes to Iirnitthe South-,
t-rn_';botijn,da_t'yjof Ca_lji,foi‘riiag- ‘_tjo,the'_ 'Mis’s‘9tit<i
Line of 36° 30’, with a declaration that the
bye-and-bye, as a State, under the name ‘of
Haiti/1. C((fff0’I"/I'I:a., with or without, _S,Itti_1",§;=i‘y‘ as;
her people may desire.
...The House talltedabout the Bounty Land
bill and did,notl'rir-9'.‘ , 3, _ , H ,
The Senate did iiotliitig ‘net i 7”'(l,L‘.S‘(fa-;?/ but
l.iston..to..M I’.--S01-lléls-~ speech; in favor*- of" the
Missouri line tothe Pacific. He might __as
well have advocated the setting up of,.tlie,
Spanish Inquisition among us._,,_‘It was. sim-
ply another day thrown away. There will
of course be more of them. ‘ ,
'I‘lie I-Ioztse passed the Land Bounty bill
giving four tracks to fighters ivhether they
need them or not, but making no provision
for more "workers, although their need be
ever s_o great. VVe cannot learn from the
TC\legl'uj)l’llC'DlSpZ1lCl1 that the Free Land
principle obtained the grace of the Yeas and
Nays. VVe presume it was rejected in coni-
tiiittce, where no Yeas and Nays were taken,
and cut off by the previous question oti the
final reading.‘ It surprises us that there
should be "no more than thirty-six votes
‘against such a bill.
Our dispatch says this bill will call for
fuuror five millions of acres ofpublic lands.
So it i'vill——-Forty millions at least. The
lands are now swainpcd as a source of Rev-
enue for twentyyyears to cotne. 'l‘hc last
hope of a distribution of the Land Proceeds
to the State is now gone forever. Now-
friends of Equality and Justice! will you
not check the robbing, speculating, false
swe:-iring, that this bill will inevitably create
by enacting that ez:e7'_7/ lmicllcss man 7ita._7/ occu-
,v,t/ ((JL(f'f7)1]))'0UL’ ripazc/i of the public clomrtiit
wit/tout 7}l07I.€_7j a-ital wit/tout price .7 Cannot this
bill be. so amended in the Senate?
-= In the Senate on I/Vcrlncsrlay Mr. Foote
presented a resolution calling on the Presi-
dorit for copies of all orders to Col t\.lonroe,
and all correspondence between that gentle.-
man and the atitliorities at VVasliington irt
regard to the civil and military Government
of New Mexico, and the recent movement
for a State organization, &c. The resolution
tics over under the rule. The Senate took
up tlie,-Qmtiibus bill and then laid it down
ragaiii-'1i‘erie\i.fé‘fftlie order for meeting at It
o’clock, and then adjourned.
In the flottsc, Mr, Stanton of Tenti. offer-
t-.d a resolution asking the President to tell
tlte I-louse all about the state of affairs in
New Mexico. Objection was made, and the
resolution was not introduced. The session
was spentin the consideration of the Iowa
contested Election case. No action.
The Sciiztta did nothing on T/Lztrsrlay but
tilk about the Missouri Comprotnise linc—
which‘ was about the satire as saying notliitig
Silt‘. \Vebstet' forcibly exltibited the futility of
the effort to extend that line and the unrea-
.-onableticss of further resistance to the Ad-
riission of California. The rest of the de-
bate consisted of words.
In the Ifousi, the Iowa Contested Elec-
tion was“.furtlier debated all day. Mr. Mc-
Gaughey tnade a convincing statement in
f.‘ivor of Mt‘. M'ller’s right, but the Loco
l?‘oco majority will keep him out of the scat.
And yet we think seven months’ possession
and use of it ought to pay for the stealing of
one poll-book.
In the Scmtle on Ftirlay several speeches
were tirade on the Omnibus bill, and a vote
was taken on Mr. Soulé’s amendtnent_, (ex-
tending the Missouri Line to the Pacfic)
which was lost by 17 majority, yeas I9, nays
36. Mr. John Davisimade a speech against
the entire“ Omnibus” scheme, and in favor
of the \ViItnot Proviso. The vote on the
«>ngi'o.ssment ofthe bill will probably be tak-
en next Wedaestlay. '
The Hbzm, to our surprise, come within
an ace_of doing justice in the Iowa Contest,
by giving Mr. Miller the seat which was tak-
on from him by stealing and hiding one of
the poll-books. "The vote stood yeas 95;
trays 9-1-; when the most iiit.]7a.7'tial Speaker
Cobb 'I.t0i/rd to make a. fir, and declardcd the
motion to insert Miller in place of Thomp-
sonf_0st.’ So the day was wasted without a
dcciston,and probably before to-night Mr.
Miller will be finally chiseled out of the
seat. VVell; we cant be done out of the
fact that he had the most votes. and that
those who stole the Mormon poll-book to
defeat him had themselves comztiittsd the ir-
i‘.cglttttt‘ities by which they now seek to in-
validate that vote. I
In, the House on Sttlitnlag/, Mr. l\’l’Clei'n-
anc’s motion to lay the Iowa case art the ta-
ble was negatived ,and after some discttssioti,
it m0_tion by Mr. M’Gatighey, that there is a
vacancy in the Housefrom first Congression-
.'.tl district in Iowa, and that the Governor be
tnttde acquainted with the fact, was agreed to,‘
ye-as 100, hays 94.
Latteir fronit Caiifornia. I
i The United States Mail steamer Crescent
City, brings fifteen days’ later news from
California. 4
She ‘brings $250,000 in gold dust, in the
hands of the pzissctiget's. I'VE-role number
of passengers 156. .
The steamer. Isthmus arrived, at Panama
on the 16th, having left San Francisco on
die 15th of Mav. She brings the mailand
t:5300,000 in gold dust, and 134 passengers.
_ Another great and d_estruct.ive fire oc-
c.tirred in San Francisco, (iii the morning
of-the 4th of May, which redttccd full one-
third of the city to ashes. The lossis stated
at over $3,000,000. It is thought. to be the
work of an irtceridiziry. A reward of $5000
has been offered for his detection.
._.__v
; The ship North- Star, of New Lon-
d.-)ntU0_ml.-.ab0utto sail on a whaling voyage,
Js.7pI'.0V,_It,lcd with patent guns for s/rooting
7‘.-‘-Ill? Wl‘I?1l€’-S- _Tb€‘-y_,are said to. be very
:_’l’I‘l-'.ll;‘nl., and to throw harpoons and lance
with uncrring aim. '
I
--"Jolin l\lcNttmet3,"l’onvicted. at (jhm]eSmn
Cf stealing a slave, and also aiding a slave to
escape, lids‘ been sentenced -to be liungbn the
l3th "of .September. ~'
rtcomniended to Executive clemency.
'_ A ‘_I‘,IAALl_.lE4__.-—.-.,At_:, \Vest,.,;Iélilveii,.ori 25th, 324
“ drum-fisli,” averaging itiiweiglit about 40 lbs.
. at-tli, were caught at. one lianl. ,. .Tlie"aggt'e-
._.i_t.e’ weiglit, of the ,\,V,'._l1OI£,3,gjIflfLl,$__l;-_I_l,i_l;V._6 ‘been, 13,-
‘.’L‘.} lbs. 3-——(}o,u,/tat‘. _ .,,,_ .§.."‘
r
He has, however, been‘
ii+t.-..".f....2.‘ttt.‘..-
fpouhties consits
t_'fully,and the .§hjtei'pr'isiirig.mentfof lll€]__l.--l‘G-
‘niziiient pt'osperi‘t'y." Morei’tl_ian I50 forges
ré‘ct1'3;,'t6“’tii6‘té"“'tttstt- 700 I persons,‘ai1d " indi-
rectly to_- o_ver 2000. These men earned
€S'l2,000‘a"t\'ecl{, and were enabled to sup-
- port ‘themselves and families comfortably. -
But under the operation of the British
the owner of thejore,heds and forges have
managed to lrvc—-on hope. ' They were. re-
, ’luc'tan't.t'o discharge the men in their employ,
because they knew that, to do so would cut
off‘ "thcii' on lyiivailable’ "iri"e‘aiis" "(if ls‘ii'“;'5‘po't-t.—"—"
Their only capital was their .hands,and the
only mode. by which.they could render that
capital available, was.by,laboring in that de-
partmeiit of—industry' to which they had been
bred. - 7 _ _
But “ necessity knows - no law.” -The
employers—the-mselves men, generally,»of
small means saw. nothing but inevitable
bankruptcy before them, if they persisted in
producing that which they could onlysell
at a less. They have been, therefore, driven
to it suspension to their works. Four-fifths
of all the forge-fires in lIle,l\lOl‘lI)ell’l pat‘t of
the State. have been already extinguished,
and the residue soon must be. .
Heretofore the busy aspect presented by
the multitude of forges in operation on the
banks of Lake Cliatnplairi, constituted one
of the pleasantest features of a trip through
that beautiful picturesque Lake. But now,
those forges stand out as so many finger-posts,
pointing to the dcstt'uctive effects of the Loco
Tariff of 1840. -
The money heretofore earned by these
2000 Iron workers is now sent to England
and ‘Wales. The $12,000 a week which
they have hitherto expended among the far-
mers, mechanics and merchtints .iii their
netgliborliood, woes into the pockets of the
farmers, mecltanicsand merchants offoreign
countries. And this is the democracy of L0-
cofocoisml They profess onlo to war upon
the rich manufacturer; for they are full of
sympathy for the “ poor l1l':1n,” And yet they
knew very well, that for every nizitittfacturcr
their ruinous policy bankrupts, it beggars a
hundred attizans, whose only capital Qonsist
of the physical powers which a kind Provi-
dence has given them.
Albay E L‘-cning Journal.
figs The Locofoco papers of this State
cannot overcome their chagrin at their ina-
biltty in the last Legislature to choose a
United State Senator. It is expressed and
reiterated, in all their papers, in the most an-
gry terms. The leaders of those parties that
defeated their caucus nominee are berated in
the most violent manner. Cotnmon curses,
and .ordinary l‘f'pl‘O£lCllCS seem utte.i'ly below
the deep, soul felt indignation that boils with-
in them. They appear on the searclrfor
“ some secret curse, some hidden tliutider,
red with uncommon wrath,” to hurl at the
heads of those who have dai'et_l to disobey
the comntands of King caucus. What hive
these men done todern.-ind such unm-.-insur-
cd vituperations, to require such a S0lt"IlIl'l
excommrtnication from the party ’.Z Simply,
they have chosen to think for themse.lvcs.—
This is the whole head and front of their of-
fending. " They have dared to act contrttry
to the wishes of the I-Iarford clique of the
“ deniocratic” party. Tliey had their own
preferenci=s for so important on office as U.
S. Senator, and they expressed them, and, in
the exercise of their "rights as frecmen, as
Representatives, as true Democrats, adhered
to them. Must men always vote as the Loco
papers dictate? Is there no room for the ex-
ercise of private judgement‘?
H wifo rrl Cort-i'a,7tf.
C,ret-a.sses.-—'I‘wo great crcvasses have oc-
curred on the Mississippi, one at Point
Cort pee, and the other at Bonnet Carre "from
which most dire-ful and ptiobztbly exaggera-
ted etlects are ‘fo"etold. Pu specting the
the fortner tiie Orlean Picayune rays.-—
“ The great crevasse at Point Coupce brings
disaster upon the richest and most populous
regions of tlie State.
tions must be ovetflowed, houses will be
carried away, stock destroyed, crops ruined.
It is impossible to estimate the loss, present
and prospective, which this inundation
threatens. It will in all likelihood cover
up a region of fertile country as large as some
whole States in the Union and drive from
theirliomes a vast multitude of our most in-
dustrious and most valuable citizens.”
Advice to You’/ig IlIc7z..——-Let the business
of every one alone, and attend to your own,
hour to advantage and study even to make
leisure hours useful , think twice Lefare yeti
spend a shilling—you will have another
to make for it, find recreation in looking af-
ter your business and so your business will
not be neglected in lookirtg after recreations ;
btit, sell fair, and take care of the profits;
look over your books regularly, and if you
find an error, trace _it out—-should a stroke of
misfortune come upon you irt trade, retrench ;
work harder but never fly the track; cori-
forntdifliculticswitli unflinching persever-
ance, they will disappear at , last; though
you should even fall in the struggle, you
will be honored ; but shrink from the task,
and you will be despised.
Itir/mizs Burnt ./.Ilit:c.—A n. express came -in
from Fort Laramis, a few days since, from
which we learn that the small pox has got-
ten among the Sioux Indians, who to -stop
its ravages, had burnt to death a number of
those that were infected. The small pox
was also prevailing in several companies of
the emigrants. '
lVesle7'7L .fli[0.i.Rt’[)0)‘f6’I‘, itne 8.
’ Want of Rain..—l\'Itchigan and two or
three neighboring States have expel-jenced
great want of rain, as well as: of heat, while.
we at the East have been rather drenche'd
than otherwise. The'Clevel:rnd Herald of
the 10th inst. announces that the first rain
for nearly ten weeks, had fallen the night
btfore,and. was gratefully received. The
fairly burnt to dust.
way ale-llorise, treated himself to some ham
and eggs; butjust. as _'he was about to. 1'aise
the __f'ot‘biden i_norsel to his mouth,"a‘ clap of,
thunder startledhim_. .'Hé‘dlt‘op-pcd the-foi'l<,'_
sa-yirig’ :5“ Main _Gott! all dis. fl_l.‘S chust be-
eatise Old,M,_OSI1cS:.,l§,_,€Ettlilg it little_._bir of _ it,-.,_..
cow). ...;,
-v.»
, _.
.......t-_ _-
several ‘of _(tu;riilNorthleifn
‘E their iron o'rc,._ f._ijFora few;
tTyféai‘s, the mir_ies;.- ave-been workecl su'c,c‘ess-\'
{gions began to dock foi‘\v'ard-tpr».-years ofjper-f
We been e"e°‘<.‘<d °.i.~r'i"f»3......S.!e.t?l9t.!I'.s:tt....$fi.:.....tv.e§t.ttisi.fo.r...t§itsii,,,_;-uz,§
_T.arif_I.’ of",f46 the d‘eniand_=f'o”i"their.Ia-bor,has--
been "gia'duallj' falling ‘off. I For "tlitce "y"c'a't“s“
Hundreds of planla-_
Don’t buy what you don’t want ; use evervi
roots of the grass about the country were
{if-gs An old .lf,(;.iVV, being in an but of’ the.’
‘ him.
The maif‘ t'efcirii-.er Padific, Cad!-_,, ye, left
.ll‘tiv€riJ00l.b,rt t¥'i?e’.""i.1ftetn°°" v f '“W.i.e'dn0sdB3'-
-the -19th tilt. ; l\ s l_io-jrd _ _» : I, Halifax,
and the ir"i‘t'el'lii."gie'ii'c¢-.‘which we" "give below
i0ib£3lfQ9Clé_ ' l‘
The Pile
ilic encountered heavy westerly
oo . A
P 't‘hve'political news from England is of
considerable importace. After repeated ef-
forts of- Lor.d- Palmerston to arrange -the
Grcekldifliculty with France, and after seve-
ral, p0stpOnem9t‘its in the; Britisli ,Par,l_-iamjent,
the question was finally brought up, and the
Ministry was defeated. _ _ .
Their resignation, in consequence of this
defeat, was li_o_ti'rl,y‘ c-fixpected, E 3 ‘ = ~
i.1.-=it.e.ii a:Jvi.¢.es..f'.ti9m..I.ndi
iii're‘unfai'oi'alile in a commercial point of
view.'» 3 ‘ ~' ‘
Tliezcommerr.-ial iritelligence from China
was not regarded as favorable. ’ '
The comriiercial news from England is
reported as favorable; -
New’ Tax La\vs.. ~. .
As there is much curiosity in regard to the
new liriis relative to taxation, we give them be-
low in advance oftlieir regular order. .
An Act in addition to An Act for the as-
sessment and collectionlof Taxes.
Be it cimclt-il, That all real and person-
al property, except l.l]at;\\-'lllCll is exempljfrotn
taxation by -virtue of the 11th, 12th, and
13th, scctionsof an act to which this is an
addition, snall be valued and set in‘ the list
at three per cent of the value_ thereof in
money. . _
Sec. 2. Personal property for the purpose
of taxation, shall be deemed to include all
goods, chattels, monies, and effects, whatso-
ever they be, (except wearing apparel,) and
all ships and vessels, whether at home or
abroad, owned by any resident of this State,
in addition to personal property now by law
taxable.
Sec. 3. All personal property employ-
ed iri merchandise, manufacturing, or other
lawful business in this State, belonging to
persons residing out of the State, shall be set
in the list to .-ucli persons, in the town
where said busiiiess is carried on.
Sec. 4.‘ The stock of Turnpike cotnpanics
by law taxable, owned by persons out of
this State, shall be taxed according to its
market value ;' and the Secretaries or clerks
thereof shall make a return to the Comptrol-
let‘ of public accounts, under oath, of the
market valtie of said stock and shall pay or
cause to be paid to the Treasurer of the
State the tax aforesaid at the. same time and
in the same m-ttriiier, and under like penalties
for failure, as is now required of cashiers of
banks; and such turtipike companies shall
have a lien upon the stock of each stockhold-
er for the reitnbursenient of such sum so re-
quired to be paid.
Sec. 5. Three hundred dollars in value of
property if so much there be in any pei'.son’s
list, shall be deducted therefrom, and be ex-
empt from taxation. _
Sec. (5. YYIIBDEVCI‘ a State tax shall be
imposed by an Act of the Legislature, direct-
ly upon the several towns in this State, in
proportion to the levy of each town last made
and perfected; and said tax shall be paid
into the town treasury of each town subject
to tire order and control of Tt‘easut'ct' of‘ this
State, on or before the twentieth day of Feb
ruary in each year. ' .
Sec. 7. The t\vent_v-eighth (section of the
Act to which this is an addition,and all parts
of any Act iticon.-istrrtt lietewitli, be and
the same are hereby r-‘pealed.
ORIGEN S. SEYMOUR,
Speaker of the I‘-louse of Representatives.
Cl-IAS. H. POND, Pres. of the Senate
Api raved, June 22.-J, 1850 .
Tl-IDS. I-I. SEYMOUR.
An Act in rtddilion to an Art for tire Assess-
ment of fZ'a.7:es
Sec. 1. Be it cnactt-d, &c.. That every
person liable to pay taxes in any town in
this State, shall previous to giving in a list
of his taxable [property to the Assessors,
make oath before a justice of the Peace, or
either of the Assessors, who are hereby au-
thorized to adtnininster said oath—-—that the
same is a t rue disclosure of all his taxa-
ble property, and that he has not secreted or
temporally disposed of any property for the
purpose of evading the laws relative to the
assessment and collection of taxes in this
State.
Sec. 2. If-any person shall give in a false
. account of his property as i1f()l'eStll(l, he shall
be liable to the pains and penalties of per-
jury. Approved,June 22d, 1850,
G. s frcnn VVater.
It begins to look as if there was more in
Pa_ine’s pretensions in regard to the produc-
tion of light and heat. from water, than has
been generally believed, for it seems that a
similar discovery has jtist been made in
Paris, by one Joseph Pierre Gillard, who
has taken out a patent for his invention. It
is dated May 22, 1850. The process of M.
Ctiillard for rendering l‘.y(ll‘()_£_7_'€l'l gas illumi-
nating, is by cztusitig a small jet of h.ydr_o-
gen gas through a l)U!‘nF.‘.l‘, (the holes very
small,) on a thin strip of platinum, or a wick
of platinunrwirc, the threads being exces-
sively fine, and a graduated sectiorli, propor-
tioned to the intensity of the pressure of the
flame and the burning hydro:;en—a very
powerful light is produced. The platinum
threads are itnmetliately heated to such a
whiteness as to be of luminous brilliancy.
In regard to Mr. Paine’s discovery, the
Worcester Spy says ;-—“ Henry M. Paine
l‘€‘_f.lllCSl.S us to state on, his behalf, that the
proposed illumination of the Astor House in
New York is ‘purely a matter of bttsiitcss,
not of experiment. A party of New York-
ers made certain propositions to the _ prop;-ie-
tors of Mr. Paitic’s invention, the basis of
which was the lighting of the Astor House.
These propositions were modified by the
owners, and sent back for the concurrence
the New .Yorkers, and. the acceptance of
them is yet to take place. Mr. Paine has
been in readiness to meet the test for days,
‘and if the terms are accepted in season,‘ will
light the'Astor House on the 4th of July
next.”—PwlZadi um. - - ' '
Attempt at Assassivtalioit by BI'f8[0l Bill.-—
Cliristian Meadows and William VVarbur-
ton, alias “Bristol Bill,". were sentenced to_
ten years_ea'cli'in the State Prison at Dan-
ville, Vt, on Friday, the 21st, for eon‘spirfi_ng
to rob the? bank. The moment the senten_ce_
‘V'i1S‘aY1.tJ'0linfced, Bristol Billllrose, from his
seat behind the bar, and, r'e:rchingl over,
stabbed \Villtam N. Davis, in the
neckginflictfing, a severe’ but ' not nior_ta_l
wound. .Mr, Davis had been engagedas
Ollie,0fl1l1Q,.CQuI‘tsr‘l for the prosecution, and
‘Bi ll cl_<:'c'_l,t,.1r'cd,_tli;it',it”was, iris, I,Xll.i,cfl'll-l:iO__l'l‘ tokill
-J-1.. -‘
l
-: --
has been witnessed at my house.
sate r.v.vei.i:s§l...atid.. ..
giés
The ivi§%‘s%;i:e;- usI(nociE:i1igs.
Public atgéntiion ‘as’
".-ti:
been called of ,l'a::lie.l,_':§,),i§jig‘(3il'lal!l. star,‘i_'g‘ie maniifes-l
rations which.-=ha v_e bjegen denominrited
terious Iipjdcilii ngs.-l’-_._’-,.,~_-';,,fI‘h’éy;=fi,rs,t-13i;beg‘?a‘t1 fto
attract attention in the city of Rochester, be-
ti.v..e.eti .°..\ito...eI..t1..t1.1r:ee...ycstf§.....ag9.. ....S.i..t.t..<=.§...-.1hat...
time, similar ’nianil‘estations “have been in
the cities of Auburn, Syracuse, and in other
places in Western Nc_\v York, and recently
in several places in Ohio, New Jersey Con-
necticut, and Massachusetts. For several
we.eks_‘ past sornet:li_i,;ri_g,of '-the‘: same cl_iar_'ac‘.ei"
_ It ‘corn-i
rnenced on the 10th of March last, and con-
tinued, with slight ,lnl.el‘l'tlpllOl)S, from two
"to" three months’, , For the _fi'r‘st five or six
.t3L§.<3.1$5-.l70.99.m.l11.'?!.!lS51‘.l0“-S. v'et'<.: iti=3..d.<= .1h.=3t
-we could understand: but the phenomena
consisted in the_ moving of- -afrticles of furni-
turein a manner that cotild not be account-i
ed for, Knives, forks, spoons, nails, blocks
of wood, &c., were thrown in dilI'crent di-
rcctions about the house. They were. seen
to move from places and in directions which
made it certain that’ no visible power existed
by which the" motion could be pro;luced.'—-
For days and weeks together I watched
these strange movements with all the care
and caution, and close attention which I
could bestow. I witnessed them hundreds
and hundreds of times, and I know that in
hundreds of instances they took place when
there was no visible power by which the.
motion could have been produced. Scores of
persons iii the first standing in the commu-
nity, whose education, general intelligence,
candor, veracity, and sound judgement none
will question, were requested to witness the
phenomena, and. if postble help us to a solu-
tion of the mystery. Bill. as yet no such
solution has been obtained. The idea that
the whole was a“ trick of the children”-—
an idea which some of the papers. have en-
deavored with great zcal to promulgate, is
to every one who is acquainted with the
facts, as stupid as it is false and injurious.-—
The statement too which some of the papers
have reiterated so often that “ the ntyst_ery
was found out,” is I regret to say untrue.——
VVith the most thorough investigation which
I have been able to bestow upon it aided by
gentleinen of the best talents, intelligence
and sound judgment, in this and in many
neighboring t0wns,tl1e causes ofthese strange
phenomena remain yet utidiscoved.
About the middle of April, a gentleman
who was spending the night at my house,
proposed to try the method of interrogation
\Vltlr'I_1 had been adopted in I-Vestern New
York ; and to our utter amazement, =1 series
of responses was returned, from which the
inference was irresistible that they must
have been produced by a being which pos-
sessed intelligence. For several weeks,
communications were made in this way re-
lating almost wholly to a matter in which
certain meirtbers of the family are supposed
to have an interest; at the satiie time the
other manifestations contintied, and very
great annoyance was experienced. The
itrodelof communication was by sortie per-
sons repeating the alphabet, and the letters of
the word to be uttered were indicated by a
rap frotn some invisible agent. I tried by
all the methods I could devise, to find what
the power was by which the riipping was
prodriced. I have heard it hundreds of times
and have done my best to ascertain the cause
but as yet I have not succeeded. l have been
often asked if I belivcd it was the work of
spirits. I have as often replied that I do itot
know what it is. . l have never seen a spirit,
and do not know what a spirit could do if it
would, or what it would do if it could. The
facts however are of such a nature, and have
transpired under such circumstances as to
render the idea oftrick or designed decep-
tions wholly inadmissible. Still, hyowever, I
have become fully satisfied that no reliance
whatever is to be placed on these commu ni-
cations, either as a source of valuable inform-
ation, or as a means of acquiring the truth.
I speak of what has transpired at my house
and I have the fullest confidence, that if it is
the work of spirits, it is the work of melted
spirits. Indeed they pro css to be wicked
spirits in a state of torment, seeking a miti-
gation, of their torment, by redressing the
wrongs of which they were guilty in life.——
lhave watched the progrr:-ss of this matter
with great care, and have done the best in
my power to learn what these strange things
mean, and although I have not yet been
able to ascertain the cause, I ant satisfied
that their communications are wholly \vor'th-
less. They are often contradictory--often
prove false-—frequently trifling and nonsensi-
cal, and morein character with what might
be expected of a cotnpany of loafers on a
spree, than with what might be expected
ft'3nispir'its returned from the world of retri-
bution, to tell the secretsjof their prison-house.
' Similar manifestations :-ire now being
made‘ in many other parts of the country.——
According to information which I suppose
to be authentic, they are witnessed in front
150 to 200 different places at the present
time. In many of these places, they are said
to advance ideas on the doctrines of religion,
wholly at variance with the teacliings of the
Bible, and subversive of many essential truth
which the Bible reveals. Under an impres-
sion that whatever is communicated by a
spirit must of course be true, many persons
are receiving tiiese cor'nmuntcations- as the
truth of Cw'od—as a new revelation from the
spirit'World. But it should be remembered
that there is no proof that what purports to
be a revelation from spirits, is the work of
spirits at all. The most that can be said is,
ihat we do not know how or by whom these
communications are made. If they are made
by spirits, we have no proof that they are
good spirits. The presumption is, that they
are bad spirits—lying spirits. At my house
they often accused each other of lying—con~
tradicted at onetime what they affirmed ; at
another, inflicted injury _on property in the
most wanton. i.'nianner, and have, given
throughout , conclusive evidence thatthe dis-
cipline of hell‘ which tlieyvprofcss to have
experienced’ for several year-s, ' has as yet
been wholly ineffectual in improving their
characters, and qualifying them for the
‘‘ higher sph_ere,”‘for which many supposes
that the discipline after deathisa‘preparation.
C I cannot now say to what coric'l‘usions fu-
ture developments may lead me; but ‘my
pi‘esent’impt'ession is, thatthe whole thing,
so faras the transactions in this place are con-
cerned, is to be setdown among those devi-
ces of Satan, by which he’ is promoting his
work of destroying souls ;_" and my cliief ob-
ject in this communication to the public at
time is, to caution all who would avoid error,
against trusting‘ to‘ these pretended .rev‘el-cations.
lhavehad a better opportunity than ‘most
men}to witness tliem,and to judge of their
C‘lt?lltIlSi,i:t_1_fl_tl‘-ll1il1'i'e full confidence that the
‘ opir'iio_ri's_’,lI‘have expressed will be found‘ to‘
.2 weeksjipast i in
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TUESDAY. JULY, 2,,,1s5.o,.,
..._._.
“Hath. anal. Cabbage.
_M_'I‘o one who has ivitpessecl the l)ll_lL_l,l1gflll_(_ll‘,
‘cooitig of'tli,e‘_7’d;erfioei‘a“éy'f- tlie?Fjt'ee Soil‘
party in times past, their present amiable state
of feeliitg towards the satire party, must. be
soniewhat tttiiusitirr. From smirks and grim-
tices, intenspersed with geiille cnddlings. they
lia‘v’o fa‘ l te'tr-ta‘ b"e’i‘a ti irg and "'a'!‘J'iisi rig‘ ’tJlie"i"r'i"' ii ftér
the iiiost-_ka_pp";-oved m_tr‘_nn_e.i,'_;,of_ the veriest
shrew. Language being rtither jtame, they
have been compelled to search for terms of
befitting -coarsieriess to nizike their laccrttted
fcelitigs sufficiently,undet'stood. The feeling
of wltioli we speak seems to be general. too;
for our exclmnges, from tlie.Times and Regis-
ter down, bear the-same evidence of disap-
pointme.nt_ and wratli-—“ Tray. Blanclie and
Sweetlieai-,t,,”. little dogs andall, joining in the
some churlislt yelp. \Ve‘sulijo'tn tr few-extracts
to show how excruciating thisdernocrtttic iri-
dignation is. A ’ ., _
The first extract is from the New Haven
Register:
In titiie, we shall unveil the causes’ which
have opet'i't‘ted to produce this result—t.he in-
definite postponemetit of the election of it U.
S. Senator—and, shall expose the hypocrisy
and faitlilessriess ofthose men who ha vn gained
the cotifidence of the deniocratic party only to
betray it» Talk of the *9 principle ” and “con-
science” of such men! \-Vliere was their
“principle. ” when they took part in the pro-
ceedings of the detiiocratie caucus, iinpliedly
and lionorably binding tltetnselves to its action,
while in tlieir hearts they had resolved to de-
feat; it? \VIiere was their “conscience ”
when, after professing that they were only
governed by regard for the \Viltnot Proviso.
they refused support; to that honorable and
cotisciciitiotts man, Loni-:.\' P. \V'.u.no? Per-
sonal aticl selfish consideratiotis have been at
the bottontof this factions !1l0Vell‘l0llL’-—-fl “ dog
in the niariger” spit'it—_—a. determination to
"rule or ruin,” has guided it.
The I'lat't.fut'd Times is terribly savage on
the Free Soil nietnbers of the late Le_gislattit‘e,
and especially upon tlieit"’leadet'. Mr. John
Hooker of Ftri'riiitigtoti. He says of Mr. H.,
among other similar r hard things, that
“ This was the Free Soil leader in the
Connecticut House of Representa_t.ivt-.s, in the
year 1850. A fr‘-(l9l'tlllSl. at lieart. lint. insignifi-
cant as it metnber of that party, he mounts
the soil hobby, wltere lie is more conspicuous
among the weakest sort of lights. and, as it
Free Soil leader, he uriblusliirigly claims to
have tiliandoned the \Vliigs, and to syrnpatliize
with the Dento(:t':tts. wlieir he desires to carry
it t-erttriii tiie.asiire; and ‘as reatlily claints af-
finity with llie. Vlfhigs, boasting of his unifortn
action with that pa rty, when he desires to se-
cure ztnotlier object. , ..
The leader is worthy of the party. He can
accomiiioditte -himself to cii'cumst:tnces——-ctiti
ofi’er:tid to either party, or ask it of them;
can be \VIiig, Democrat, or neither. as the
State of the mar/cct may detiiand. An rgflicc
flit‘ a Free Seller can cat-ry the leader and his
whole clan one way or the otlter, as has been
pretty clearly indicated in the election of
Speaker, and appoiritnicnt of Batik Controls-
s‘.oitet's. Tltis Free Soil party is the “con-
sciettco-'party ” of Cotiriet-tit-ut; and sttcli con-
CQ_l]FClP[l(:8Sl The India 1I.ubber factory at
Co]clie.sIe.r could not turn out anything capable
of competing with thorn." '
Ourquotations will conclude with tliefollow-
ing dash at this unheard of. and unexpected
perfid_v._ from our neighbor of the Farmer, who
is not apt to be clioloric on common-place oc—_
casions. The prcsetrt therefore. may be con-
sidered as an ample provocation for the boiling
over ofthe indignation ofany lionestdenioct'at!
“ Men had been elected representttttves. as
Democrats, by detnocratie votes, who could
not be depended upon, and who would not
n(:tllfll‘Il10Ill0!1$ly with the detnocrzttic party.
These tiicn, lll‘lfOl'fUlltll‘ely. were numerous
crtotigli to l10l(l_tl controlling power, and, from
first to last. c-.\'et'te.d their stretzgtli to tliwart
the fairly expt'essed wishes and measures of
the great nittjoriry of the deniocratit: rnetiibers.
The teridency of this i'et-.reancy was to ob-.
struct the progress of business, and the result.
is a protracted session, and the tiori-election of
a United States S8ll:ttf)l'§_ For the latter, the
i'cct'eants elected as Democrats, are wholly
responsible. \Vlten the day of reckoning
comes round, we trust. their accounts will be
snital;l_v atljtisted by the deniocrzttic portion of
the people.”
.- . C: 1 Salmagunndi. .
Hon. J. D. Dory, published a call on Fri-
day morning last, for 11 meeting on the same
evening, ofiall those rnetnbers of the House
who are fztvorztble to the prompt admission of
California into the Union, as an independent.
measure. The wearisoine and liarassing‘de-
lays. in the way or liririging about this mett-
stire, are becoming intolerable The steam-
er Viceroy (Atlantic steamer) went ashore in
the log, on Tuesday eveniiig last, on what is
called Sling Island, between Cape Sable and
Sea Islands. She is so far dattiaged, that. the
water flows in and outjof her with the title.—-—
The steamer‘ Commodore ran ashore in Hell-
Gate Strait, on the flats north of Execution
Rock, on the morning of Friday. She was
light and lay eas_v. The N. Y. Wercliants’
Exchange was to have been so'd at; Shei'ifl"’s
Sale on Friday last. The sale was adjourned
for 11 fortriiglit. . The heat for some days
past has silenced the croakers about; it slitn
corn crop. ‘Plentiful. and frequent; showers,
and it high range of the mercury, are compen-
The N. -Y.
& N. H. _Rttlll'0fl(l, .jsp_i'iiil~.letl three times a
day by a siieciizrl train of Sprinklers. The
Tribune, in enuniet'atirig the beauties and lux-
uries of l-Ioboken, alludes to the transcendent
crisp turf u_ndet' ’one’s'feet. Our Connecticut
Yankee notions at-e_tiot its refined, intliese
matters, ' as those rn.o:J(-.letl on the Gotham
scale; our 1 preference, tlierefore, for: the ‘soft
’L'Cf'l:cl tuif will easily be accotinted for, and at-
tributed to our want. of't_trste." ’ The building,-
-site _on South .N0l‘llVt1ll{HAVenlle, known as tire
,Bt°ovvn Propert_v, has"b..e'en‘rso.l(l to it gentleman
of Mttinarrorieck, for immediate itiipi'oveiiient.
The call "for-‘building-lots about ‘tow,r1_;_,sinco
the consti-ttction of_‘_tli_e ,Di_tribui-y i&i1IN?or'f\vall<
Railroad has become a‘, fixetl _fii¢t,'ili1r;is very
sitting for a backward Spring. -
lriiucli--.inctteased'. '- Th_e.engitieers are. actively
engaged iii" locating the, ,route.* Tlrey-lialve for |
1, ,5
I - to ;lj’Iaiitifitct.nring.iCompuny
i‘°t,o.' their mills, mid_ pre-
,g,_.io*,‘ .fl}[3l§§I?.hl8‘flnI0flnt of tlieit' manu-
.l'fifc.iir'es.-‘i—Faii'ffdld.f County Batik has ob-
‘ r’ .-2"; xi’ . . .
-tied a g 'ut for an"-‘etxtenston of their ctipital,
$575,000. The Commissioners meet at: the
. . . . -:1-,~;q ..‘,’,o.'v-7’.-‘-at-‘.‘-.-\'2‘I49—-.--,' 1 '. foI."»'::, _-:.;-: air ..:*";" ". §‘5*"' "‘ -'\‘”.’'.°.‘’ '53-? ""-’i‘“"'7' ""N"a”
‘ ‘"‘. . —» -‘Bitfiltihg »-Hotisefon —tTf6-10tli itis“ti.~ Qllellrrlfrfl‘
.b9oks will be, open fti,t'-»;sul:sertjptiops.—,-0uv
Savings"Bank'is stir-pa'ssii’ig'iii" the am')uiit'ofits
—btisi_iiess,. tlieliigliest expec!.ttt.ion~of its .ft'iernds_."
At itsjannual meeting on Saturday last, all the
old oflficers of the institution were re-elected.
The Democratic Banner, under that, or
some-other title is to be r'esuscitated under the"-
auspices of,,"_Wpi,~'I:_, §l'l]i_ll1-,'-E_;sq_; i_r_s foifiner
cotidu'ctor. I I l‘he stock of the NEY. and N.
III"? ' R‘ 1"‘ "R?6i‘i"“ll'ifiddy“"lii‘s E '"‘i‘ea’cli“é§d"‘7§'°fii‘iS rii'.“-"
Rumor; says: I,’-:hfl_l21'i'.:_'i."'P,$,l,_I_)_'l6 Roe k,=”-' ,at'“-'..th"éf Falls
fell. from its-place on.Saturdiry aftern,ooi_i._\ The
Guide and two or three‘-other individuals weriol
caught under it‘. Six ethers passingin a‘cai"riagal
at the time, would have shared the ‘same fate,
but leaping, escaped. Fhe :snrnea_utlioi'i_ty‘
informs us that. Prof. rWebster has written to
tli'G’6"vei‘-’r'iot"' a nd" Cori ncili,“"t:'oiiféTs‘siii jitiliiiif ' he
killed Dr. Pai‘li?r1ian.:bub71it--was not; intruder-.
Detailsii-tot given. Up"to-ithe 26th ult. there
had been some tenor a_ doz.e,n,.ballo_tirigs in the
M nine Legislature for a U. S. Senator, with-,
nttt success. Lewis Olmstearl has been ap-
pointed P. M. at North \Vilton. A locomo-.
tive boiler exploded on the \Vest'et'rrR. R. on
Saturdiiy’, ' killing" this ‘.e'ngiue‘et"? and severo.ly
scalding th_e;fireman.‘ . , : -5 V I
F or the Norivallc Gazelle.
Mir. E'Di.'roir":‘-—'-In the account published in
the Uazette of last: week, of the doings of the
General Association of Connecticut. there oc-
curs gtn error which, as it was not yours, but
mine, your infortiiant', I hasten to coi'rect.
The following is there stated to have been, in
substance. :1 part of -the i'epoi't of the commit-
tee of tliirteen, and to have been passed by the
General Association ; viz.: ' : '
“ 3. De<.lai-ing it to be the duty of art ‘Asso-
ciation (wliero at tncmlier is cxtetisively regard-
ed as llztvlllg ptiblislied ltercticttl doctrines. and
where great disttfess and zigitmiori arise t.lrere—
npon,') totake l]l(‘.nSU1'eSil.(l' have hint put on
trial before. the Consociation, &c." ""' ~_
Tliis-was no partfof the report of the Thir-'
teen, nor was its a part of the act:ion.of the
General Associatioii. but if. was in another
document, viz., in the Memorial of Fairfield
\Vest. _ _ I _ " , j _
Not having the documents in possession. the
error arose from :1 corifusion of memory, which
I did not discover till the Gazette was printed.
Please correct it in your next, and oblige if
Your: I.\'roimiA:t'r.
Importaxit from NeW- Mexico! I
A telcgrztpliic llispatcli from St. Louis,unde'r
(late of the 25th June, to the N. Y. Tribune,
brings intelligence from Santa ‘Fe up to May
2.-3t.li : -I
The Convention’ previously called had met
and formed :1 State Constitution, which had
been formally proniulga ted as the Constitution
of the State of New Mexico‘, which was to so
into effect. on tlio"1.st of July. The boundary
quection was tlefe-.t't'e(l. The Cntistitutton pro-
ltibits Slavery; Menibers of the, I..egis!attire
and S(‘.lltllOl‘S, with Relprcsentatives to Con:
gress, weiesnoti to be ele(:ted.- I
A second dispatch says. . I. g
The Cottveiilion assembled on tlie'15tlt May,
and the session lasted eight. or nine days.
The Constitution was adopted on- tl2e\f‘25tli
Way. In fifteen days afterwards. an election
\. HS to take place for the election of members
of t.he State Legislature.
The lioundaries of the State were defined,
and slavery prolribired. '.
...__é____._____..j_____ \
Hi'L'ro.\' Housis AND ITS Imi.-'1'rr:s.——Tliis
work, published by H. Long & Bi'o., 43 Ann
street, N'.'- Y.,'is one of it series of publications
under the title of " Long’s Library of Select
I Novels.” Having just received it, we are un-
sble to speak of its merits from our own ex-
aiiiination. From the very highly commenda-
tory notices of the English press, we tliiiik
there can be no question about its interest. in
a deep-laid plot, well-drawn characters. and
\'vot'kiofTfic'tion'. I W ' --
(Biiiri’s) between New York and BOS'L'0l).;”I]113
declared it dividend of seven per cent. for the
last six months. At a meeting in’ New York
on the evening of the 25th, to cotntiietnorate
the completion from New York to Buffalo, and
from New York to Portland, tr magnificent ser-
vice of plate was presented to the President of
the Company by the Associated Pi'essof'New'
York. . " I
{F Among tIlie"I;')l('t7l77lS,0l'tlle Steamer Grif-
fetlt was at well-dressed young man. whose
name was ascertairted to be J. K. Munson
saidro be -from Contiectictit‘, and liou";il_
Toledo. On-his person were fottrir] niné._,$10o
bills, and other money to the amount of 53111.60,
l)P.Sl(leS a gold watch, &'.c. He'- 'was‘- taken to
VVillouglib_v for intern_ient., ,
IMPORT!-.\‘G For-.i~:toN Ino-N.—It ls announ-
ced in letters by. the IttSl{:)Slcf1ll1el', tllttl?.ltl‘ll'ee
thousand tons of rails have been purclrased
by the ‘Allen and Springfield Railroad Co.
at £5 per ton, cash; ‘and’ that one tliousiiii
five hundred tons have been purchased foil‘ the
.Riclimond‘and Danville R:iilt'oiid.:tt the so
ratef_,£5 per ton, cash, delivered free on
in\Vales.\ Comment is unne,c'_essai'y,.
Tm: TROUBLP2\Vl1‘Il POXii'li‘UGAI..—-_
don Times cor‘r'espondent:'says that t
can ship of war, Independerice, be.
flag of Commodore Morgan, was at LV
the 22d ult.. en route for Gibraltar, w ,
she was to proceed to Lisbon, t_o_ gdemall
settleinentjof. claimsdue by P0|'tllg=.ll. $01116
United States.» _ ' "
_ Tii'r;’Dt-j.la'n or 'riir: (_-J‘r[{I,,E‘I*‘-lT'[I,-——'_I‘l'l_"-_ Clfsve-.
land_Hera‘ld says it was believed, tl,ia,t;_.,up. to.
the evening of‘ the 24th ult., two hundred and.
twenty-one bodies inall, had -been ‘recovered -
from the wreck _.of this ‘ill-fitted steamer.
A. l.flW,-; l»‘Vl‘-"t.$s,l_?_t1-‘3:S€?¢l.-2.Mr the l?!l5lii$‘?3§l.9.“‘i of
the _Legislature of Massacliusetts, ta,k;in_g away
the power-of;tryi‘ng certain._civil . and cr'imi_iial
cases from the o_rdinary Justices of t_Iie,,Peace.,
and appointing for this. purpose a.‘veii’y‘i,-‘3'éy';,‘,,i__:r1
each county (to, be called trial jus£icé's.‘f‘3'- t f
the grace and brilliancy of its narrative as ti. ‘
The 'bIei'cli:tnts’ ‘Line off] Tc‘legi'apl1\
Norwalk Chronicler