New-York tribune., 1841-04-28
BOSTON, February Q. ls4l.
Ncws x orb HeQislature.
G. N. TEACHER.
Secretary B. c. c.

GcwsYers legislature.
On Monday little discussion of general interest took
place in either House Each intent on business of
which good deal Of secondary local interest de-
spuchcd. Among Others Bills with the following titles
were read n third time and passed in the Senate
Respecting the powers and duties of the Caxa Board and
the Commissioners of the Canal Fund.
To authorize resident aliens hold and convey real estate
To amend the reduce the expenses of forecosins
mortgages in the Court of Chancery.
Relative to Courts held by Justices of the Peace
To erect the town of Penn Yam. Ayes II, Noes
The following are those --~1 = = --"-
Orphan House in the City of New York.
In relation to the Ononioga and Montczuma Salt Works
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c. f. lhcheu-This distinguished forger it would seezr
from the following letter which find in the Commercial se
last evening is at present Montreal He appears
completely thrown behind him all regard for public opinion
to have renquishcd all claims responsibility and rushed
at once into and companionshp FROM
which the strong of Law the stronger power of Death
alone will be likely to rescue him. Once let serespect be-
cast away ventured and how swift and terrible is
the downward plunge!
MoNrRE,1, April q, ls4
Charles F. Mitchell, the person who commitio for
gcres in your city and Philadelphia this city He
arrived the 9th bearing the of Goodwin, and
passes his time gambling and houses OF ltamc He
was arrested DAYS and taken before the police,
but succeeded, by feeling lawyers, IN getting clear His
ruak however was searched and about $4,000 found
in it, mostly of the Grard Bank. He Is spendings
very freely stranger called office this morning with
$780, which he had received from Goodwin who he SAID had
lost 1t in gambling.
1t struck me that this Goodwin might be Mitchell and
said the stranger, who told that he had been intro
luced Mitchell in NcwYork about three years ago, and
had acrward him Buffalo, and had no doubt that
| This od,yin he
Montreal he told him that he thought nc had seen hEr
before but Goodwin Tor McheD denied all acquaintance
with him. When mentioned Mitchels name, my inform
ant distinctly recoleced that this the same person
learn moreover that he told his lawyer he Member of
Congress- and the police office confessed that his
was Mitchell.
have spent the whole day in trying have him arrested,
but without success Our authorizes say The United
States refuse TO give up persons who have committed the
most heinoIs crimes this country (audng to Holmes the
sr and why should trouble ourselves about this
man? lie is spending his money very freely, which VIII d
us some good
The money that he obtained by his orgeres might be
covered from him by proving the debt He might be arrest
ed civil process authority gwen some one hert-
( to proceed against him.
More Forgery-The Philadelphia Chronicle states that
within the last days forgery the amount OF S30Ou
vas committed the Philadelphia Bank of that city &c
appears that weldrcsed individual with rather gaysn
hair called the Bank and handed to the Cashier coe
purpOrtlnG be from the bank OF
the Cashier pay the bearer the balance OF ne aoc"unr
between the two Banks The document having tho nae&
Of the principal officers of the Bank of Mobile attached to TT
with the seal of the Bank also the least suspicion
cred The balance upward of three thousand dollars
MD % tho Stranger who Immediately departed and has
since been heard Of has since been ascertaned that the
a,, was forgery There is little dosbt that this indi
vu,l is connected with the gang who have successfully
carried their operations at Cincinnati and other places.
and have hitherto elsded the vigilance of the police.
The PanometerPro;. Hopkins of Williams College has
invented an instrument called the PanometDr which, it
name imports may be used for almost every description OF
mathematical or astronomical measuremenfor taking the
altitude of the sum- measuring equatorial angles for meg
surisg horizontal angles Surveying for acertaning the
raton and dip the magnets needle and for various other
purposes unnecessary be enumerated here will be e
biDted before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
at heir next annua, meeting in Boston The Instrument
was constructed By J. H. Phelps Of Troy