New-York tribune., 1842-03-24

o. statement, winch the Courier made the
ground Of personal attack upon Us We cannot
imagine why, in view Of the testimony adduced b,
Us Editor Yesterday, the Courier should haze a.
sailed US or demurrcd to our statement "a, all.
But again: The Courier has labored to excite
hostility dstrust ofus the part of the Wings OF
this City on the ground that publicly avow.
edv opposed the nomination of Mr.. Clay for
President in 1889 deeming the prospect Of d
Wing triumph with another candidate much bet
ter than with him. This the Courier stigmatzcs
As de&enioa and treacdcry on the part Of those 50
believing aud acting and yet the Editor tells us
tina, he expressed to Gen. GRANGER wiling
ness to support Gen. ScoTr il convinced that he
could be elected, and Mr. CLAY could not. That
Is TO say, he was ready to do what he donounccs
in others, if he had been convinced they were.
Jow is this
GEOLOGICAL SURvEY.-Gov. SEWARD has
transmitted to the Senate sketch Of the progress
Of the Gcologica Survey Of this State. The law
authorizing tho Survey was passed in 1896 and
appropriated $4,000 annually, for four years,
within which timo it was thought the Survey
might be completed. The difercn, departments
were committed to tie following persons, with the
annual allowances annexed =
Botany, John rorrey, NY, $4,000 90
N1ineralogy, Lewis c. Beck, NY, $3.50 90
Zoology. James G. De Kay, $500 90
Pamontolosy. Tim c. Conrad, Pa 1900 90
Geology, IS, Dis, William NJ. Ma
Their, Ohio. $500 90
Geology. I'd Dis, Ebcnczcr Sim
mons, Albany, $500 90
Geology, 3D. Dis. Lardner Van
uxegn $500 90
Geology, 9TH Dis, James Hall Al
bany, 1900 90
The Survey was closed on the lst of January
last. Eight suites have been collected, one Of
which, containing 10000 specimens, IS 10 be re-
tanned by The State. and the others arc to be dis
trbutcd among the various literary institutions.
drawings of 1000 animals, native in the State.
lave been prepared by Dr. De Kay; as many OF
indigenous plants by Dr. Torrcy moro than 600
of organic remains, by Or. ConraJi and each of
the five other persons has prepared maps, views.
and sections, necessary to exhibit very fully the
formation OF the territory he has examined. Tho
cSpensc OF the field survey, continued for tivc
years and half. amounted to Sl0l, $40. The
final vcports will consist of eight volumes of 400
pages each, exclusive Of Illustrations
p If we thought the responsible Editor Of the
Courier q Enquirer either wrote in any manner
countenanccd the sneaking paragraph which APP
pcarcd in that paper Yesterday, insnuating that
MIR. B,RSEr had published inthc Tribune u Let
ter. Nc. and that the influence Of tic Iribuic'
IS exerted in his behalf for President. we should
resolve never to speak Of the Courier again
Whether as friend or foe, VIC do no, believe Col
WEBB capable Of making such use Of an adccrtise
7nent. paid for and distinctly announced as such
and we look TO see this dirty trick of some subor
dnatc frankly disclained in this mornings paper
Law DEclsIsNS.-Ihe Sangamo, III Journal
'ofthc 18th ult. says that Judge TREAT. Of the
associate Justices of the Supreme Cour, of that
State. has decided tina, the act passed jar. %
1923, providing that every negro in the State
without certificate of freedom shall be deemed n
runaway slave and tis services may be hired out
Is unconstitutional and void A negro arrested
under the law prayed for writ OF habsoS corpus
and obtained his discharge.
Another negro. who had resided in the place
tor Two or three years, was seized by a man from
Arkansas who claimed him as his slave. Judge
Treat required that he should first prove his claim
20 him bv d;sin,erested witnesses
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