The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-03-12
seassacbusctts Legislature.

SENATE. The following bills were passed 10 be en-
acted =
10 incorporate, severaly, the Salem Gas Light Co ;
the Annsquam Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; lie Ballard
Vale Machine Shop, the Adephan Academy at North
Bidgewaler; the Glendon Rolling Mills The Lawrence
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. the Fall River Marine In
surance Co to authorize George Randall and John c.
Haskell TO extend their wharf, Seth Nickeson, Cd, 10
builu wharf; the Boston and Marine and Eastern
Railroad Corporations to contract with the Portland
Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Co 10 continue the
charter of the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Co re
lang 10 Agricultural Societies.
The pauper papers of all kinds were taken from tho
files. and Committed 10 Joint SPECIAL Committee con.
ssng Of Messrs Scudder, Taylor, Salisbury and Guild,
on the part of the Senate.
bill reported 10 incorporate the Worcester
Health Insurance Co.
Leave to withdraw reported on the petition of
Lahan Souiher and others for railroad from Cohasse
to Quincy.
The bill TO incorporate The Peoples Mutual Fire H.
surance Co. passed TO be engIossed.
House. The following bills passed to be enacted
To incorporate, severay the New Bedford fiorticul.
tura Society the Wareham Savings Bank concern
ing the Salisbury Branch Railroad Company; to estab
lish the line between Mount Washington and Boston
Corner; TO suppress injurious publications 10 authorize
Benjamin w Miller to plant oysters in 1auaton Great
Rivers TO amend the charter Of the City of Lowell Civ
ing further time to the Cohannet Bank to close its con-
Germs; TO author The County Commissioners of Barn.
stable 10 construct roads and bridges across Scouon
Creek, Frost Fish Creek, and Wadng Place Creek
The consideration Of The Attorney General bill was
resumed.
Mr. Bullochs amendment reducing the salary 10
$1,000 year, rejected Mr. ScLouler Of Lowell
moved to amend by fixing the salary at $1,000, which
was carred-ll7 TO 49, and lie bill was then rejected
yeas a. nays 1856.
hr. Williams of Salem, moved a reconsideration Of
this vote, and the motion into the orders Of the
day.
The R. R. ACCIDENT. The superintendent
of the Boston and Worcester r. r. has lnvesti-
gated the circumstances Of the accident of which
we gave detailed account last week, and has
arrived at the conclusion that egIec on the part
of those who had charge of the Albany train
the cause of the first collision from which
all the other accidents resulted. The engineer
of that train has been discharged from the en-
poy of the company. The conductor-being an
officer of the Western road, and in this instance
voluntary agent ony-was not regarded as res
ponsible to the Worcester road
THE DoUGH FAcEs.-The Washington cor
respondent Of the N. Y. Evening Post, (loco foco)
speaking of the Wilmot Proviso, says:
81 have but very leebly expressed the grief
and indignation with which | reflect upon the
result OF that struggle. / shall not now enter in
to an examination of the motives of those men
from the free States who first expressed their
approval of the principle Of the measure by their
votes in its favor, but secured its defeat by sub
sequently voting against it. For them, person
ally, the sef-contempt which they must expe-
rience, and the fierce and bitter scorn which
will be visited on them by their betrayed CON
stituences, will be a sufficient punishment; but
this viii be no compensation tor the wrong and
injury to the rights OF the free states, which
these men have permitted TO be accomplished.
am curious to notice their reception among
their constituents. There is much 10 be said
upon their course, though nothing can tighten
the load of lntamy under which they must here
after move y
Why should the democracy be blamed for act-
ing upon this question just as they act upon ev-
cry other Does not every man know that
democratic professions of independence in the
House of Representatives are nothing but sstrik-
ing for higher wages J" This was the term
sneeringly applied to them by a Representative
from South Carolina, who looked without alarm
upon their threatened detection, because he knew
that Uhen he waated them he could buv them.
Providence Journal.