New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-21

bare suspicion ol lile laCt Hati ~ siii1'i oiN "
his final overthrow in 1910. Have not estao-
lishcd the fact that the doctrine OF Protection Is
Democratic doctrine p
RHODE IsLAND.-The Convention for forming
new State Constitution has made considerable
progress. The first section of the report OF the
Committee on the bill Of rights is as follows:
:" In the words of the father of his country, we
declare, that the basis of our political systems IS
the right of the people to make and alter their
constitutions of government; but that the con'tl-
tuition which at any time exists, till changed by an
explicit and authentic act OF the whole people, Is
sacredly obligatory upon all
The Committee on Suffrage have made report,
of which the following is the substance:
The first section gives the right of voting to
every male citizen of the United States, who may
be seized of real estate the value OF 1l34, and
who NAV have resided in the State one year, and
it does not matter whether the property lies In the
town where the person lives or not. The second
section gives the right of voting to every white
native citizen, who may have resided IN the State
two wears, and in the town or City wherein he
may offer to vote, for one year next preceding the
time of voting, and who shall have procured his
name to be registered in the books OF the town or
before the first Monday of October previous to the
time of voting, and who shall also show, by such
certificate or proof as may be required by law,
that he ha, for and during the year next preceding
the time he shall offer to vote, paid tax assessed
on real or personal property, in any town in this
State, of the amount of one dollar, that be has
for and during the year next preceding the time
he shall offer to vote paid into the Tren snry OF the
town in which he resides the sum OF one dollar,
for the support of public schools therein, or such
sum as, together with any taxes he may have PAID,
shall amount to one dollar, or that he has for and
during the year next preceding the time ne shall
offer TO vote, been enrolled in military company,
and been equipped and done military duty therein
according to law, or that he has for and during the
year next preceding the time he shall offer to vote,
been a me nber Of chartered engine or other e-
gally authorized company for preserving buildings
and other property from destruction by fire, and
done duty therein The third section shuts out
United States soldiers in our forts marines, pau
pers, lunatcs and teons; the fourth excludes per-
sons living upon United States lands, and Nara
gansett Indians the fifth ordains that person
shall be eligible to Office in the State who does
not possess the qualification of an elector.
MARRYArr's NEW NovEL.-'Pe Keene,
the nautical novel of Capt. Marryatt has been
Published in en- Extra NewW orld 'cithir 80 hours
after the Englis, cops received by the Great
Western. This is Unprecedented instance of
typographical dispatch The story seems TO pos
sess all the thrilling interest and broad humor
which characterize al! the writings of the author
of Peter Simple &c.
The same ,cork, in the form of double Brother
Jonathan has also jus. been received by US. We
suppose beth editions to be Identical in substance,
but, though the World has won the race in time,
the Jonathan presents the most convenient shape,
It's page being only half the size of that Of its rival.
90 The Gallotine Is still in motion. II. II.
Babcock has been appointed Postmaster at Una
dlla Forks in the place of Lodowck Brown, re-
moved. DR.. Bose, of West Winfield, and DR..
Manly. of East Richield, efficient and respectable
men, have also been brought to the block.
g Two thousand five hundred persons have
applied for the benefit of the Bankrupt Act in
Maine, and but two hundred in ew-Hampshre.
20 There is much sickness in the eighborhood
of Paris Missouri.
20 Mesmerism continues TO be all the rage in
Richmond
ToBAcCo.-We regret to hear of the extending
cultivation of this abominable weed in Illinois
and sorne other regions westward, where we hoped
the Ia & would be devoted to better purposes.
IF tobacco affected merely the users its use
might be less objectio nabe-but unfortunately the